Speakers
"Vanishing Night:
The Urgent Need to Save the Night"
2022 Annual Conference
IDA Missouri
Evening of Friday, September 30th and Saturday, October 1st
Hosted by Johnson County Community College, Kansas City
Speakers
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Paul Bogard, Author Paul Bogard is the author of The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light and The Ground Beneath Us: From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness, What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are. His first children’s book What if Night? was published in late 2020. A native Minnesotan, Paul is now an associate professor of English at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota USA, where he teaches creative writing and environmental literature. Find him at paul-bogard.com. |
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Krystal Anton, Johnson County Community College |
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Cindy Cassidy, IDA Texas |
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Don Ficken, IDA Missouri |
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DeAnn Gregory, Missouri Sierra Club |
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John Kraemer, Ph.D., Southeast Missouri State University |
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Mary Nemeck, Burroughs Audubon Society of Kansas City |
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Jean Nock B.S., Master Naturalist, Certified Interpretive Guide and Co-Owner Liberated Horsemanship, LLC. (An international educational corporation) |
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Ryan Persinger, Missouri State Parks, Thousand Hills |
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Buddy Stefanoff, CrossRoads LED |
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Stephanie Todd, IDA Missouri |
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