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PRESENTED BY DEEP ROOTS
Shannon Currey
Education & Outreach, Izel Native Plants
Dana Ripper
Executive Director, Missouri River Bird Observatory
Camille Dungy
Award Winning Poet, Acclaimed Essayist & Critic
Eric Eaton
Author
Elizabeth Steele
Sales & Marketing, Hamilton Native Outpost
Luke and Linda Black Elk
Food Sovereignty Activists, Teachers
Brad Guhr
Education / Prairie Restoration / Concert Series Coordinator
Rita Cunha
Native Seed Technician, Conservation Blueprint
Danae Wolfe
Conservation Photographer, Writer, and TEDx speaker
Dr. Liz Koziol
Assistant Research Professor, University of Kansas, co-founder MycoBloom
Erin Presley
Horticulturalist, Olbrich Botanical Gardens
Dr. Gerardo Camilo
Professor, Department of Biology, Saint Louis University
Dr. Abigail Derby Lewis
Executive Director, Citizens for Conservation
Kate Austin
Green Infrastructure Asset Coordinator
Julie Copley
Fire & Stewardship Coordinator, The Nature Conservancy - Missouri
Mike Saxton
Manager of Ecological Restoration & Land Stewardship, Shaw Nature Reserve thru December 2025, Executive Director, Nachusa Grasslands January 2026
Jesse Nippert
Grassland Ecologist, Konza Prairie Biological Station; University Distinguished Professor, Kansas State University
Kristen Baum
Director of Monarch Watch, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Stacy Passmore
Principal and Co-Founder, Superbloom, a Denver-based Landscape Architecture firm