Susan Parker
Educator
Village of Cazenovia, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSusan Parker is an educator and conservation-minded community leader with 14 years of experience designing and delivering horticulture, food systems, and environmental stewardship programs. Based in Cazenovia, NY, she blends hands-on land stewardship—having served as a US Forest Service hotshot and lived for two years alone stewarding 5 million acres—with community education roles at Cornell Cooperative Extension and as a master gardener coordinator. Her work connects farmers to diverse local communities, builds volunteer leadership through Master Gardener programs, and advances edible landscape and therapeutic gardening initiatives that improve public health and resilience. A fiber artist and trained horticultural therapist, she brings creative approaches to grief, wellness, and group connection informed by deep field experience and conservation genomics interests. Known for securing grants, developing curricula, and leading aging-in-place services, she rethinks how communities gather to make meaningful collective change.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Horticultural Therapy, Horticultural Therapy at University of ColoradoEnvironmental Science, Environmental Science at SUNY Empire State CollegeAssociate of Science (A.S.), Surveying Technology/Surveying, Associate of Science (A.S.), Surveying Technology/Surveying at Mt. Hood Community College
Github Skills (6)
botany9
computational-biology8
genomics8
bioinformatics8
perl8
code-behind7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bcbc-group/Botany2020NMGWorkshop
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
A repo for scripts and associated files for the Botany 2020 Virtual Nonmodel Genomics Workshop
Contributions:64 commits, 3 PRs, 63 pushes in 16 days
genomics-workshopworkshopgenomicsbioinformaticsbotany
bcbc-group/NMGWorkshop2021
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 8 pushes in 15 days
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