The Denver Zoo is a recognized leader in animal care, visitor experience, and conservation andhosts over 2 million visitors per year.Horticulture Specialist● Monitor and maintain 8 acres of elephant area. Through plant design, use of large equipment , reworked thisarea to better suit tropical asia plants to better suit animals in area, trialed hardy tropical to push limits inColorado climate.● Focus on education on plants and conservation. Do this through leading professional development team, managing 15 volunteers, writing blog posts for zoo website.● IPM committee member. Through this created a weed management protocol most notable● Rio Mora site seed collection with volunteers. This sparked the development of grant. Funded grant for a research pollinator garden to look at the relationship between pollinators and plants. Used this to develop cross-departmental relationships.