Jaimi Butler started her career as the only woman on a brine shrimp harvesting rig on Great Salt Lake. Butler has since made a name for herself as a scientist, advocate, writer, and comedian.
Jaimi Butler started her career as the only woman on a brine shrimp harvesting rig on Great Salt Lake. Butler has since made a name for herself as a Great Salt Lake scientist, an advocate, writer, and recently comedian.
After researching brine shrimp history, Butler found it interesting that brine shrimp or ‘sea monkeys,’ as they are more commonly known, were sexualized in marketing cartoons in the 1970s. Butler’s talk to a crowd of more than 50 people at the Cache bar blended science and humor, as well as the phalluses and fallacies related to the lake.
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