People

I am the Director of Operations at the Institute for Wild Med, a small but mighty team bringing relevant and engaging emergency response training to educators around the country and the world. I'm a big believer in experiential education and the benefits of spending time in the natural world. 

I am the Director of America Adapts Media and host of America Adapts – The Climate Change Podcast. I previously worked on climate adaptation issues with the National Park Service, FL Fish and Wildlife Commission and in Queensland Australia. I'm dedicated to highlighting the issue of adaptation.

I'm a former public aquarium professional now teaching STEAM topics at a charter school in NJ.  I focus on environmental science education as well as engineering.

Maggie Burnette Stogner is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with over 30 years of creative and leadership experience. She is founder of the “Upstream, Downriver Media Project,” a media ecosystem of powerful stories about water justice across platforms, from public television to YouTube and TikTok. 

I work to enhance Great Lakes literacy by connecting K-12 educators and their students to aquatic science.