Ellerie Ezekiel graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in 2017, and has worked in the conservation field for almost 10 years. She is a volunteer program manager at Natural Lands in Pennsylvania, where she trains community members on how to be effective land stewards and conservation ambassadors. She is passionate about connecting people to their local nature access points and believes that providing the opportunity for communities to build personal relationships with nature is one of the most effective conservation advocacy tools.