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I have been a Teacher/Naturalist at the Dodge Nature Preschool in Minneapolis for over ten years. I love being outside & making new discoveries with children. I enjoy hiking, biking, paddling, photography, & drawing. I also enjoy working with nonprofits on their fundraising events.

Early childhood educator and advocate for community schools rooted in social-emotional learning, equity, diversity, inclusion & trauma-informed policies & practices

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Dilafruz Williams is Professor Emerita and co-founder of Leadership for Sustainability Education and Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Portland State University. Among her long-term partnerships are the founding of: an Environmental School, several school gardens, and a Learning Gardens Laboratory on a 12-acre property that functions as a research and education site serving educators and their students many of whom are low-income, immigrants, and/or refugees.

I am a science communicator with a fascination for asking philosophical questions and applying science to everything in life. My topics include: lifestyle (mindfulness, self-improvement, mental health) & environmental (sustainability, ecosystem function).