Christian Cummings is the Executive Director of Nonhuman Teachers 501(c)(3) and is a partner in the botanically-minded creative studio Cactus Store Studio, both of which operate in Los Angeles and in NYC, respectively.For ten years, C.S. Studio has worked in the cracks between disciplines on projects that help broker better relationships between people and plants with a "by any means necessary" approach that includes landscape design, greenhouse architecture, publishing, lectures and events, making clothes for gardening in, outdoor furniture design, and even crafted a perfume that makes you smell like a tomato.The work of CS Studio has been featured in the New Yorker, Architectural Digest, The LA Times, New York Magazine, Purple Magazine, OC23 Magazine, SSENCE, Brutus Mag, and a whole bunch of others. The success of which was proof-of-concept that an alternative, unexpected, and aesthetic approach is helpful toward exciting new audiences about the plight of the natural world. Thus was born Nonhuman Teachers.Nonhuman Teachers is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that takes a new approach to ecological storytelling, blending science, art, and the imagination to help deepen the relationship between humans and the natural world. Through its multidisciplinary public programming, immersive botanical spaces, and new nature media, Nonhuman Teachers aims to ignite a sense of wonder about our rapidly changing Earth, not only to make us better citizens of this place but to help us imagine it differently.Before CS Studio and Nonhuman Teachers, Christian worked for seven years at Cal Arts and for two at the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City.