Connecting People to Nature

Bio: Chicago Region Program Director, Division of Environment, Culture, and Conservation (ECCo), The Field Museum. Former Professor of Geography and Chair, Chicago State University. President, Calumet Heritage Partnership Co-Chair, Calumet Stewardship Initiative

Education: Ph.D. Geography, University of Minnesota M.A. Geography, University of Minnesota B.A. Geography, Valparaiso University

Key Publications: (with Richard Greene and Dennis Grammenos), eds., Chicago's Geographies: Metropolis for the 21st Century (Association of American Geographers, 2006); with Daniel Block), "Paradoxes of Praxis: Community-Based Learning at a Community-Based Unviersity," in Nila Ginger Hofman and Howard Rosing, Pedagogies of Praxis: Course-Based Action Research in the Social Sciences (Jossey-Bass, 2006); A Mirror Cracked: 10 Keys to the Landscape of the Calumet Region, Journal of Geography, 2001

Other Publications: Project Director, Discover Calumet Map, Chicago Wilderness Magazine, Spring, 2009

Bio: Curator of Anthropology and Director of Applied Cultural Research

Education: Ph.D., Anthropology, Columbia University, 1984

Bio: Urban Conservation Director at Field Museum