Yereni Butcher is a Senior undergraduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park double majoring in Environmental Science (concentrated in Natural Resource Management), and Latin American/Caribbean History. She works at AADHum as an intern assistant in digital repair and development, with training sprouting from soldering and rewiring motherboards and video game systems. A few digital projects she’s taken on are archiving methods for oral history and CDs as well as resurrecting recycled computers enroute to landfills. She also assists in MITH workshops covering circuitry, inspired collages, and Raspberry Pi programming. Her focus in these departments are primarily the archiving of digital and physical backlog, as well as mechanical play and exploration.

Her digital website project, Agua de Cóco, was based on her research of her own family immigration story from Latin American, and was funded by the AADHum Microgrant program in Spring 2025. It dives into the historical and cultural significance of coconut in Panamanian Afro-Antillian culture and how indigenous and black traditions were passed down in recipes within her own family as a form of resistance to European validation and the uniting.