On sunny days, Kristen Donofrio’s long strides carry her toward her beloved sport bike.
The biologist reaches the parking spot and swings a leg over her cobalt blue motorcycle, slides a slick, made-for-speed helmet over her dark brown bob, and turns the engine over.
Her pianist fingers play over the bike’s grips, and she launches herself into Norfolk’s afternoon traffic.
On the ride home, shorelines and wetlands churning with life blur past her – ecosystems that, as a biologist, she is committed to saving.