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I coordinate the Master Watershed Steward Program in Cumberland and Franklin counties through Penn State Extension. This program provides extensive training to volunteers who strengthen local capacity for managing and protecting watersheds, streams, and rivers across the state.

I am from Kinston, North Carolina. I currently attend UNCG, pursuing a degree in Environment and Sustainability with a concentration in natural science, along with a minor in biology. 

My name is Anya Linn, I am a Wildlife Conservation Management major with an education minor at Delaware Valley University. I am currently in my junior year and have completed an internship at AARK Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center participating in the weekly summer camps integrating animals and education.

I’m Peyton Gardner, an Environmental & Sustainability Studies major with a Biology minor at UNCG, graduating in Spring 2026. My academic and research interests focus on marine ecology, coral reef eco-physiology, and the impacts of microplastics on marine systems. I currently work as a fish behavioral specialist at Pet Supplies Plus, where I help customers maintain healthy freshwater aquariums, and I conduct undergraduate research in longleaf pine restoration. With a strong background in environmental stewardship, fieldwork, and community engagement, I’m passionate about connecting behavioral physiology and conservation to support healthier ecosystems for the future.

Nicole Ardoin is an associate professor of Environmental Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University. She was Stanford's lead researcher on the eeWORKS initiative in partnership with NAAEE. Professor Ardoin´s research focuses on environmental behavior as influenced by environmental learning and motivated by place-based connections. In particular, she is interested in considerations of geographic scale, which is an understudied yet crucial aspect of people-place relationships in a rapidly globalizing, urbanizing world. Professor Ardoin and members of her Social Ecology Lab work in collaboration with informal organizations, including museums, zoos/aquariums, parks, and residential environmental education programs, with an emphasis on using innovative, non-traditional metrics and adaptive management approaches. She is also interested in philanthropic support of environmental learning initiatives and emergent trends in the field of environmental education research.

Environmental advocate and educator dedicated to social and environmental justice, community empowerment and fostering global citizens. Working to cultivate an inclusive and safe world through connection and education.

As a music student that's minoring in environmental science, I see it as necessary to preserve environments to mantain both ecological balance as well as respect the intrinsic aesthetic value in them.