Alyssa is a life-long outdoor enthusiast and advocate. With a B.S. in Fisheries and Wildlife from Michigan State University, she first pursued wildlife biology but quickly discovered her passion lay within the plant world. Alyssa spent the last three years working in native plant nurseries and doing native plant landscaping and restoration. Previously, she worked for the Ingham Conservation District on their invasive species program. She gained many of her rugged field skills while living on an uninhabited atoll in the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands surveying seabirds for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Alyssa spends as much of her spare time outside as possible camping, bird watching, paddleboarding, and looking for rare plants. She can occasionally be found inside reading a book with her dog and three cats.
