Kristin Shaw
USFWS
Bloomington,
IN
USA
Biographical Sketch: Kristin Shaw earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology and Political Science with supplemental minors in Sustainability Studies and Religion from Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa, May 2013. Currently, she is a second year MSES/MPA candidate at Indiana University School of Public Affairs (IU SPEA). Her concentrations include Environmental Policy Natural Resource Management and Applied Ecology. She is expecting to graduate December 2015.
Kristin is a Service Corps Fellow, a program through IU SPEA that promotes public service and professional development, with the Eastern Tallgrass Prairie & Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative (ETPBR LCC). Through her position as the Landscape Stewardship intern last school year, Kristin organized the first Midwest Urban Conservation Workshop, where professionals came together to share experiences, technical knowledge, and successful approaches to urban conservation, as well as, create a true networking opportunity with other officials from cities and towns, NGOs, and researchers committed to urban conservation. As a product of this workshop, the Midwest Urban Conservation Network was created, respectively being referred to as Ecological Places in Cities (EPIC) as the network reaches outside the boundary of the Midwest with the inclusion of other LCCs.
After spending the summer at the Neal Smith Nation Wildlife Refuge as a Biology Intern, Kristin returned in the fall through the Service Corps Program as the Urban Watersheds Technical Advisory Group Coordinator. Currently, she is in coordinating the creation of EPIC as a collective impact that reconnects people and nature in Midwestern cities, their surrounding working landscapes, and natural areas. EPIC is comprised of professionals in Urban Conservation across the geographic area of both the ETPBR LCC and the Upper Midwest Great Lakes LCC (UMGL LCC).
Papers:
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An "EPIC" Emerging Coalition for Metropolitan & Landscape Conservation