Marie Scatena is an oral history researcher, Openlands Treekeeper and former museum educator who works collaboratively to create projects based on first-person narratives. Her current work includes a public health archive at The New York Public Library opening next year and her blog, From the Same Tree/S Istog Smo Stabla, which documents family history alongside the impact of tourism in Croatia, with interviews to be published in 2027.
Learning to unlearn our baneful relationship with the natural world
How did we, as children, come to believe that banana spiders were ours to capture and kill? We thought nothing of the welfare of the insects.
October 7, 2026
