2022 Conference Keynote Speakers
All featured speakers will be live-streamed and accessible by both in-person and virtual conference participants. Plenary sessions will be recorded and available for on-demand viewing for two weeks after the presentation.
Arizona does not observe Daylight Saving Time and will be on Mountain Standard Time during the conference.

Mayor Regina Romero (Invited)
Mayor of Tucson, Arizona
Raised by immigrant farm-workers in Somerton, Arizona, Regina is the youngest of six children and began breaking barriers early on as the first member of her family to vote and the first to graduate from college. She is a proud graduate of the University of Arizona and holds a post-graduate certificate from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Indigenous Knowledge for Education and Sustainability
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, which was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. Kimmerer is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
This session will be presented virtually.
Friday, October 14, 11:30 AM MST

Leander Lacy
Owner and Founder, Lacy Consulting Services, LLC, Denver, Colorado
Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey
Lacy Consulting Services helps environmental organizations and sustainability-minded businesses meet their goals of improving human and community well-being through conservation action. Leander is trained traditionally as a wildlife ecologist and received his MS in human dimensions of natural resources with thesis work on how to improve the quality of life of the urban poor through environmental action. He also worked on global teams with The Nature Conservancy and advocated for increased social science and justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in conservation projects.