PRESENTED BY DEEP ROOTS

Luke and Linda Black Elk

Food Sovereignty Activists, Teachers

Mike Saxton

Manager of Ecological Restoration & Land Stewardship, Shaw Nature Reserve thru December 2025, Executive Director, Nachusa Grasslands January 2026

Kate Austin

Green Infrastructure Asset Coordinator

Camille Dungy

Award Winning Poet, Acclaimed Essayist & Critic

Dr. Gerardo Camilo

Professor, Department of Biology, Saint Louis University

Shannon Currey

Education & Outreach, Izel Native Plants

Dr. Abigail Derby Lewis

Executive Director, Citizens for Conservation

Jesse Nippert

Grassland Ecologist, Konza Prairie Biological Station; University Distinguished Professor, Kansas State University

Dana Ripper

Executive Director, Missouri River Bird Observatory

Julie Copley

Fire & Stewardship Coordinator, The Nature Conservancy - Missouri

Kristen Baum

Director of Monarch Watch, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Brad Guhr

Education / Prairie Restoration / Concert Series Coordinator

Eric Eaton

Author

Danae Wolf

Conservation Photographer, Writer, and TEDx speaker

Elizabeth Steele

Sales & Marketing, Hamilton Native Outpost

Rita Cunha

Native Seed Technician, Conservation Blueprint

Stacy Passmore

Principal and Co-Founder, Superbloom, a Denver-based Landscape Architecture firm

Dr. Liz Koziol

Assistant Research Professor, University of Kansas, co-founder MycoBloom

Erin Presley

Horticulturalist, Olbrich Botanical Gardens