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