Food Sovereignty Activists, Teachers

Conservation Photographer, Writer, and TEDx speaker

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

Native Seed Technician, Conservation Blueprint

Sales & Marketing, Hamilton Native Outpost

Director of Monarch Watch, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Author

Executive Director, Citizens for Conservation

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

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

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

Education & Outreach, Izel Native Plants

Executive Director, Missouri River Bird Observatory

Education / Prairie Restoration / Concert Series Coordinator

Award Winning Poet, Acclaimed Essayist & Critic

Professor, Department of Biology, Saint Louis University

Green Infrastructure Asset Coordinator

Fire & Stewardship Coordinator, The Nature Conservancy - Missouri

Horticulturalist, Olbrich Botanical Gardens