9/1997 -5/1999    University of Wisconsin   Madison WI

Teaching certification in High School Biology and Philosophy and Middle School Science

9/1988-11/1993   University of Minnesota     Minneapolis  MN

Ph.D and MA in Philosophy with focus on Environmental Studies

Doctoral Dissertation÷Intrinsic Value, Organic Unity and Environmental Philosophy: Grounding our Value

9/1984-11/1988   University of Wisconsin  Stevens Point  WI

BS in Biology, emphasis in botany and genetics

Internship at North Dakota State University in Potato Genetics÷Summer 1987

Awards: Campus Leadership, Most Outstanding Junior in Biology, Botany Award

9/2001-Present             

Freelance Writer focusing on environmental and agricultural issues

9/2000-Present              Madison Metropolitan School District

Substitute Teacher

9/1999-5/2000                Monona Grove School District

8^th Grade Science Teacher

1/1995-2/1996                University of Wisconsin÷Stevens Point

Philosophy Professor and Researcher

9/1994-12/1994              University of Cincinnati

Philosophy Professor

2004 "The Crandon Mine Saga" Z Magazine, 17, 2 (February), 16-19.

2004 "Reviving the American Chestnut" Back Home, 72 (September/October), 48-51.

2003 "Lepidopteran Love" Wisconsin Trails, 44, 4 (August), 8.

2002 "Natural Swimming Pools" with Vicky Uhland, Mother Earth News, (August/September), 64-73.

1999 "Nature Network" The Science Teacher, 66, 4 (April), 34-36.

1997 "Epistemic Responsibility and the Inuit of Canadaâs Eastern Arctic: An Ecofeminist Appraisal" in Karen Warren, Ed., Ecofeminism: Women, Culture Nature, University of Indiana Press.

1997 "An Ecologically-informed Ontology for Environmental Ethics" Biology and Philosophy 12, 1 (January) 1-20.

Beekeeper since 1994

Amateur photographer, specializing in insects and salamanders

Organic gardener and botanist since childhood with a collection of exotic plants including several Old World pitcher plants (Nepenthes spp.)

Backpacked through Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island, and soloed 151 miles through the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Montana

Canoed through Okefenokee Swamp twice, Everglades once

Traveled Europe, giving talks at conferences in Sheffield and Tromso