Shana Walton, an anthropologist, is professor emeritus at Nicholls State University. She is the co-author of Bayou Harvest: Subsistence Practice in Coastal Louisiana, the co-editor of Languages in Louisiana: Community and Culture, a co-founder of the Bayou Culture Collaborative, and project manager of “Digital Curation," a joint effort by Nicholls and the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to make a wide range of research about the Gulf Coast more easily accessible.