Andrew Dagyab

Andrew Jigme Dagyab (born December 7, 2046) is a Tibetan-Coalitioner botanist and illustrator and one of the main characters in Tacoma. He served as the Botanist of the. He has a husband named Marc Figueroa and a son named Nicholas Dagyab-Figueroa.

Background
Andrew was born on December 7, 2046 in Tibet, and lived there until age five. When he was five in 2052, he and his parents escaped Tibet as refugees as a result of the Tibetan Genocide, an act of ethnic cleansing committed by the People's Republic of China in which they systematically murdered thousands of Tibetans, including Andrew's grandmother Shiwa Dagyab who was killed on September 15, 2052. Andrew and his parents found refuge in New York City, the co-capital of the Democratic Eastern Coalition, where they made a home and formidable community among many other Tibetan refugees. This is possibly the origin of Eastriver, the sixth and most recently established borough of New York City. Among the culture of Tibet that the refugees brought with them was stone shaping, a practice of Tibetan meditation where you smooth a stone ball down into a personalized shape by constantly rubbing it down.