People

Born and raised in Venezuela, now calls Florida his other, more humid, tropical home. As a University of Central Florida graduate, he started his environmental career in conservation education education at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in 2015. He continued to work as a field specialist for an environmental consulting firm performing migratory bird evaluations, species’ relocations, wetland delineations, and enforcing federal and state policies. While he loved traveling and doing field work, he re-stumbled upon his passion for environmental education. He has been with the City of Tampa for over four years working as the Recycling Specialist in the Department of Solid Waste & Environmental Program Management.

Professor Emeritus of Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies at State University of New York College at Cortland. Retired after 46 years teaching environmental and outdoor education courses.  Was also Director of the Coalition for Education in the Outdoors and editor of Taproot, the organization’s journal of outdoor education.

Co-founder, first Board president and long-time director of the Lime Hollow Center for Environment & Culture in Cortland, New York.  It has been his great honor to help people see, understand, and love the land.  Author of three books, Foxey Brown: An Adirondack Outlaw, Hermit and Guide... (2011), Jacob's Land: Revolutionary War Soldiers, Schemers, Scoundrels and the Settling of New York's Frontier (2016) and The 'Tree' of Us: Richford Boys Who Changed the World and What They Left Behind. (Spring 2023).  

Currently, working as an educator in the San Joaquin Co. Office of Eduation in an alternative education setting. I am enrolled as a student at the Teachers College of San Joaquin in the Environmental Literacy Masters program. I have been teaching K-12 for 20 years.

As a North Carolina native and educator for over twenty years I am eager to continue my own education about the world around me and bring it to my students. I have a passion for nature photography, plant and animal identification and hiking.

I have been a teacher for 27 years. I have always been interested in environmental education and always try to incorporate it into my classroom lessons. I teach in an elementary school PK-grade 5 and my current role is Special Education Teacher. I am also the Green School leader at my school in Southern Maryland.

Megan Schulz lives in Denver, Colorado, and is the Adult Programs Coordinator for Butterfly Pavilion. Being an environmental educator is a lifelong journey for her and something she works on improving daily. 

Megan received her bachelor's in Wildlife Biology from Colorado State University and is pursuing her masters in the Arts of Biology with Miami University Project Dragonfly. 

She has previously worked for the Denver Audubon as the Nature Center Naturalist, where she decided to start researching the role of empathy in environmental conservation.