Noah Whiteman, an associate professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley, has always known how to survive. He moved to Sax-Zim, a rural area in Minnesota, when he was 11 and spent the next seven years learning to fish and hunt with his naturalist dad and hiding that he was gay. When a boy he'd been friends with started to bully him at every chance he got, Noah knew it was time to get out.

See photos and read a Q&A with Noah Whiteman on Berkeley News: https://news.berkeley.edu/2018/07/03/podcast-growing-up-gay-in-rural-minnesota
Photo by Jennifer Bollmer