Sophie Chao is an environmental anthropologist and multispecies ethnographer whose research explores the intersections of Indigeneity, ecology, and capitalism in the Pacific. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Sydney’s School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry. Sophie has carried out long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Marind in Indonesian West Papua and examined how the destruction of biodiverse forests radically undermines the moral, emotional, material, and cultural ties between sago palms and Indigenous communities. Prior to her academic career, Sophie worked for human rights organization Forest Peoples Programme supporting Indigenous communities defend their rights to land in the face of state and corporate interests. Outside of work, Sophie enjoys listening to the voices of the forest and making friends with trees – just as Marind taught her to. For more information about Sophie’s work, please visit www.morethanhumanworlds.com