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I love learning about our Earth and sharing that knowledge with everyone I meet. If you're between three and 103, you're my favorite audience! My two favorite areas of environmental education - both to learn about and teach - are foraging for wild edible plants and entomophagy (the practice of eating bugs!). That's right ... I eat bugs!

Adrian has enjoyed a lifelong career in environmental education. Starting out as a park ranger, he has since served as Statewide Director of Education at Massachusetts Audubon, Director of Operations at the Center for Whole Communities, in Vermont, and as NAAEE's Senior Director for Technology Programs. As the founder of eeMatters, an environmental education and interpretive planning consulting group, Adrian led professional and community-based teams that developed strategic plans, master interpretive plans, exhibits, and technology-based communication tools for clients as varied as NAAEE, Maine Audubon, Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Trustees of Reservations, Monadnock Media, Old Sturbridge Village, and New York Botanical Gardens.

I am the Executive Director for the Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education and the Green and Healthy Schools Wisconsin Coordinator for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Sustainable Schools, accessible green career pathways, and environmental equity are my main motivators.

I am Amanda Dzifa Alokpa. On May 11, 2024, I graduated from  Duke University School of Law with a Master of Laws and a Certificate in Environmental & Energy law. I will be working in the summer with the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development as a summer clerk.

I am passionate about combatting climate change, and contributing to this by educating young students and leaders about how they can influence environmental policy change.

Bullfrog Films is the leading US publisher of independently- produced, environmental DVDs & videos that point the way to living healthily, happily, and with greater concern for the other inhabitants of this planet, and for our descendants.

Rachel is the CEO of Gaia Scholastic and the PK-8 Coordinator of Environmental Education for the Garrison School District. For both of these roles, her mission is to cultivate a generation of environmentally-literate global citizens by integrating nature and environmental concepts into the learning experiences of students of all ages and abilities. She builds interdisciplinary content in a way that challenges students to make connections - with themselves, with each other, and with nature, across content areas. A former outdoor educator, She trains teachers across the country on how to re-shape their curriculum through an environmental lens. Her educational and professional pursuits focus on bridging the gap between Mainstream and Environmental Education.

I have more than 20 years experience teaching middle school, high school and college-level interdisciplinary science courses while acquiring science skills outside the classroom in environmental education, the National Park Service, and Bioinformatics. My newest venture is owning a nature-based early childhood education school in North Carolina.

Michele Archie leads Harbinger Consulting’s public deliberation, economic analysis, and Geotourism work. Michele holds a Master’s Degree in environmental studies from the University of Montana.

Michele has been involved with NAAEE’s Environmental Issues Forums program from its inception, contributed to the Environmental Education Community Engagement Guidelines, and has developed curricula and conducted trainings related to community engagement in public deliberation.

Since 2003, Michele has led Harbinger’s work engaging communities and public lands managers in understanding and expanding economic relationships between national parks and other public lands and their gateway communities. Harbinger has conducted more than 25 of these economic studies, where effective engagement has frequently spurred collaborative sustainable tourism and economic development efforts.

I am a simple Boy.

Using outdoor experiences to connect people with the natural world.

  I am a student of the environment, my goal is to help others see the beauty and importance of the resources we have around us.