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Dr Amelia Farber is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute of Education at the University of Reading. She was previously an Environmental Change Research Fellow at Reuben College in the University of Oxford and a postdoctoral researcher within the Department of Education at the University of Oxford working on Net Zero and climate change education. She is an environmentalist with passions in environmental and climate education, environmental emotions, polycrisis awareness and action, ecological justice (including humans), and equity. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford’s Department of Education, which focused on learning from younger children in the Galápagos Islands what they know and how they learn about their local ecology and environment. Her work is child centric, ecocentric, and seeks to learn from historically and contemporarily excluded human and more-than-human voices. She advises EcoEducate, a nonprofit focused on sustainability education within Latin America,  and teaches and mentors undergraduate and postgraduate students in education and the social sciences. She worked for nine years in multinational tech start-ups and scale-ups running international partnerships, enablement and training, and business development, and holds a Masters degree in Latin American Studies, and Bachelors degrees in Anthropology and Music from Stanford University

I am a retired hydrogeologist with a strong interest in sharing my interest in and love of the natural world.

Anne Umali has been working in the environmental education field since 2000 and has built a strong passion for teaching and training others, especially when it comes to leadership training, community engagement, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Anne's connection to NAAEE goes back to 2013 when she was the project manager for the U.S. EPA’s National Environmental Education & Training Program (EECapacity, then ee360, then later ee360+). Today she's the Director of Leadership, Conservation, and International Programs at NAAEE. 

Education Programs Secialist at Birmingham Zoo - Lead for Homeschool Programs

3+ years experience in informal education

Krysta works to advance environmental literacy in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed through online and in-person training for educators and network building with government and nonprofit partners.

Adrian has enjoyed a lifelong career in environmental education. Starting out as a park ranger, he has since served as Statewide Director of Education at Massachusetts Audubon, Director of Operations at the Center for Whole Communities, in Vermont, and as NAAEE's Senior Director for Technology Programs. As the founder of eeMatters, an environmental education and interpretive planning consulting group, Adrian led professional and community-based teams that developed strategic plans, master interpretive plans, exhibits, and technology-based communication tools for clients as varied as NAAEE, Maine Audubon, Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Trustees of Reservations, Monadnock Media, Old Sturbridge Village, and New York Botanical Gardens.

Stacie joined the NAAEE team in April 2020. She has worked in or alongside the education field for over two decades and in communications for more than 15 years. She started her career teaching at a public charter high school in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining NAAEE, she managed communications for Annenberg Learner, a leading national nonprofit that connects K–12 and college educators with classroom content and professional development to support and strengthen their practice. She holds an M.A. in Spanish and Latin American Studies from American University, and a B.A. in Modern Languages and Linguistics and Certificate in Secondary Education from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She also completed a Certificate in Social Impact Storytelling at Georgetown University. Throughout her career, she has been committed to bringing exceptional educational opportunities to underserved areas and educating to promote civic engagement.