The proposed project supports follow-up fieldwork and in-depth interviews on Mfangano Island, Kenya to understand community members' lives over a period of profound social-ecological transformation. The PI conducted sustained ethnographic and survey-based research on the island from 2010 to 2015, residing with a local family for 2-3 months/year across five field seasons. This seed grant will fund return travel to Mfangano Island and a series of indepth follow-up interviews with community members whose lives the PI documented during that earlier period amid changing fish catch, health crises, and educational and economic opportunities (or not). This set of interviews will ask how people narrate their own experience and understand the forces that shaped them, and will also examine what do their stories reveal about resilience, loss, and aspiration in a rapidly changing social-ecological system. This seed grant lays the foundation for development of a project that will bring social-ecological research on food systems, environmental change, and resource governance to a broad public audience.