Dawn G. Keller has been teaching Environmental Science for more than 20 years, working for Hawkeye Community College and Wartburg College.  She has always been interested in the environment, with her favorite topics being waste management, food production, environmental justice, and women’s issues.  Author of the online activity text, Environmental Explorations:  Connections in a Changing World, she received her MS and teaching license from the University of Northern Iowa, where she studied aquatic macroinvertebrates and a BA from Wartburg College.  In her spare time, she enjoys inline skating, bicycling, gardening, playing the ukulele, and reading (hopefully with a cat in her lap).  She lives in Waverly, Iowa with her husband, daughter, cats, and dog.