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