2025 Baxter Symposium Presenter

Session: Budburst in the Classroom

Rebecca has spent over 18 years in informal and formal education settings sharing her passion for the environment and supporting teachers and their students in creating meaningful connections to the natural world. She has a B.A. in biological sciences from Northwestern University, an M.S. in biological sciences with a focus on ecology from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an Illinois Teaching License. Rebecca grew up exploring the nature of the Chicago region and now enjoys sharing that nature with her 11- and 6-year-old daughters.