PRESENTED BY DEEP ROOTS
Danae Wolf
Conservation Photographer, Writer, and TEDx speaker
Shannon Currey
Education & Outreach, Izel Native Plants
Elizabeth Steele
Sales & Marketing, Hamilton Native Outpost
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
Eric Eaton
Author
Kristen Baum
Director of Monarch Watch, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Camille Dungy
Award Winning Poet, Acclaimed Essayist & Critic
Dr. Abigail Derby Lewis
Executive Director, Citizens for Conservation
Stacy Passmore
Principal and Co-Founder, Superboom, a Denver-based Landscape Architecture firm
Dr. Liz Koziol
Assistant Research Professor, University of Kansas, co-founder SuperBloom
Jesse Nippert
Grassland Ecologist, Konza Prairie Biological Station; University Distinguished Professor, Kansas State University
Rita Cunha
Native Seed Technician, Conservation Blueprint
Erin Presley
Horticulturalist, Olbrich Botanical Gardens
Brad Guhr
Education / Prairie Restoration / Concert Series Coordinator
Luke and Linda Black Elk
Food Sovereignty Activists, Teachers
Dr. Gerardo Camilo
Professor, Department of Biology, Saint Louis University