Featured Speaker: Jungle Jordan

Jungle Jordan is a zookeeper and science communicator whose programs and videos both educate and inspire their audiences while making the experience memorable and fun. He hopes to motivate others to practice conservation and natural stewardship.

Featured Speaker: Christian Greer

Christian Greer is the president and CEO of the Michigan Science Center. Their mission is to inspire curiosity in all ages, to encourage discovery, exploration, and appreciation of science, technology, engineering, and math through a dynamic and creative learning environment.

Featured speaker: Morgan Lee Richardson

Morgan Lee Richardson is a Disney Imagineer and conservation artist, designer, educator, and storyteller. Morgan Lee Richardson demonstrates how art and design can be leveraged to connect humans with animals and inspire others to support wildlife, wild places, and the people who live there.

Featured speaker: Jessica Sickler

Jessica Sickler, head of J. Sickler Consulting, uses research and evaluative thinking to give informal educators and organizations the insight and tools to create more meaningful learning experiences. For 15 years, she has been helping organizations improve their reach and community impact through the understanding and implementation of evaluation and audience research.

Featured speaker: Andrés Ruzo

From the Amazon to the Mississippi

Andrés Ruzo is a National Geographic explorer, geothermal scientist, conservationist, educator, host, author, and science communicator. He is best known for his research on the Amazon’s Boiling River. From the Amazon to the Mississippi focuses on maximizing synergies between conservation, education, and research to build back better in the post-COVID era.

Featured speaker: Susie Wilkening

Susie Wilkening, of Wilkening Consulting, provides high-quality research that explores museum’s role in society and how they can make that role matter more. Susie Wilkening explores how to best serve audiences in ways that engender trust while opening minds to new ideas and information with the latest research from the field.

Featured speaker: T’Noya Thompson

T’Noya Thompson served many roles at The North American Association for Environmental Education, including EE Specialist, Manager of Research, Evaluation, eeBLUE, and consultant. She challenges others to understand the importance of moments that can provoke change and the significance of cultivating community to navigate the next steps together.

Deep in the Heart: A Texas Wildlife Story

Jay Kleberg and Anne Marie Fayen, Deep in the Heart: A Texas Wildlife Story

Large Public STEM Event Pivot to Virtual: Maintaining Engagement in a Virtual STEM Festival

Tricia Berry, Women in Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

Environmental Education Before, During and After COVID-19

Cinde Thomas-Jimenez and Elizabeth Gutierrez, Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority

GEMS (Girls in Engineering, Math, and Science) 2020-2021

Calista Burns and Stephanie Weiss-Lopez

WILD about TAEE

Brian McDaniel and Kiki Corry

Camera Connections: Digital Dialogues and Sassy Sun Spot Snippets

Judy Meyer, Martinique Pautzke, and Saul Rivera, University of Texas McDonald Observatory

Using Nature to Sustain Hope During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Onwards

Jordan Joly, Families in Nature

Lightning Talks

Puneet Gill and Elizabeth Miller, Texas A&M International University

Claudia Martinez-Grey, International Museum of Art & Science

Cindy Willems and Megan Imme, Galveston Bay Foundation

Morgan Kunde and Amy Bryan, University of Texas at Austin Priscilla Pond Flawn Lab School and University of Texas at Austin, College of Natural Sciences