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My name is Jason "Journeyman" Wise. I'm a Certified California Naturalist, environmental educator, conservationist, photographer, LGBTQ activist, and writer, with a masters degree (MPP) in environmental policy. I believe access to and education around nature creates the best environmental advocates.

Dr Jayne Kinley has extensive professional experience in early childhood education and care and education more broadly, as a practitioner, service manager and professional practice mentor and consultant. Interest in sustainability and environmental teaching practices together with observations of outdoor nature-based practices with young children informed my PhD research topic: Investigating influences on early childhood educators’ outdoor nature-related practices with children from birth to under three years of age. I currently work as a Sessional Academic at the University of New England, Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education (HASSE), NSW; and, am involved in early childhood education research at Southern Cross University, School of Education, Australia.

Trying to bring diversity to STEM programs of the Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI) which is a National Science Foundation funded Science and Technology Center headquartered at the University of Southern California.

I am a Junior studying Environmental Science and Environmental Education at NC State University while conducting research on the IGT of Environmental Literacy and the mechanisms youth use to engage their communities in environmental learning.

Kate currently develops and teaches environmental education programs at her local Boys & Girls Club. She has worked in environmental policy and management and has written on environmental and energy topics. She holds a BS degree in International Business and French from Penn State University, and an MS in Public Policy Analysis from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. She taught middle school math and science with the US Peace Corps in Botswana.