I work in environmental advocacy, including communications, organizing, and development. My previous work experience includes stints as an English instructor and a technical writer.
I was born in southern California,shortly before its orange groves and butterflies gave way to a smoggy swirl of freeways and housing tracts.
I became interested in protecting local communities and nature after reading the books of Mary Hunter Austin, an early 20th century author who wrote about desert places where I camped as a little girl.
In 2006, I walked 78 miles though the southern California desert and backcountry to draw public attention to the communities and state parkland that would be harmed by a boondoggle transmission-line project.
I moved to the upper midwest later that year, putting aside my hiking boots for a canoe.
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Kelly Fuller
Last updated 5/5/08.
A seashell from an ancient seabed in the Yuha Desert