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I am an ecologist and educator, working primarily in public outreach related to plant conservation, sustainability and southeastern ecosystems. My research interests are in nature play, science literacy, biodiversity, and disturbance. I want to connect with others who have similar jobs/interests.

The Houston Arboretum & Nature Center is a 155-acre non-profit urban nature sanctuary whose mission is to provide education about the natural environment to people of all ages and to protect and enhance the Arboretum as a haven and as a sanctuary for native plants and animals.

Kylie Gehringer is a science educator with thirteen years of experience in environmental education. Trained as an elementary teacher, Kylie has taught children and families at renowned informal science learning centers along the East Coast. She received her Master of Arts in Teaching Biology through Project Dragonfly and the Wildlife Conservation Society at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She currently teaches children and families at the American Museum of Natural History and is actively involved in developing and evaluating climate change programming in the Museum’s Science and Nature Program

Meet Parker McMullen Bushman, Chief Operating Officer of Inclusive Journeys, and founder of Ecoinclusive Strategies. Parker is a dynamic speaker and facilitator that engages organizations in new thinking around what it means to be a diversity change-agent in conservation and environmental education.