People

I am currently a State Park Superintendent for Texas Parks and Wildlife. I have a Master's degree in Environmental Sustainability and Natural Resource Management where I focused on freshwater ecology and the creation of conservation educational programs through citizen science. 

Hi, my name is Kristin and I'm an emerging EE professional. I love to learn and inspire others to engage with the natural environment around them.

Melissa King is an elementary school librarian in Montgomery County Public Schools. She is an active member of the Maryland Association of School Librarians and the Montgomery County Educational Media Staff Association. She serves on the Gaithersburg Book Festival planning committee and on the Friends of the Library, Montgomery County Board of Trustees. She is an active member of the Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education.  She holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern Maine and a Master of Library Science from the University of Maryland’s iSchool. She loves learning about, spending time in, and photographing the outdoors.

Matt Scott leads storytelling at Project Drawdown, translating complex, science-based climate solutions to everyday people to spread awareness, shift attitudes, and spark action. His work focuses on “passing the mic” to the underrepresented, underestimated changemakers who’ve often gone unheard.

Katie Walsh Fetzer is a graduate of Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina where she earned a B.A. in Environmental Education. For the past 18 years, she has worked as an education manager at an Audubon nature center, public school teacher, naturalist, marine science educator, youth director, summer camp director, and community organizer. She currently serves as Vice President for the Mississippi Environmental Education Alliance and has been an active board member since 2022. Katie is originally from Moss Point, Mississippi but has lived and worked all over the United States. Her goal is to help her community connect to the surrounding ecosystem in order to establish knowledge of and appreciation for its resources. She believes that building this strong sense of place will support the development of personal identity, inspire stewardship, and nurture empathy for all.