For more than 20 years, Susan Ask has been exploring the relationship between the built environment and the natural environment. She has done field research on soils, rare mammals and ecosystem processes in urban, suburban and wild places from coastal Maine to the Texas Gulf Coast to Washington's Olympic Peninsula.

Susan has implemented sustainability programs in diverse workplaces, from small offices to college campuses and she teaches people to understand and manage their environmental impacts at work and at home.

Susan has a master's degree in Ecosystem Science and Management from the Yale University School of Forestry—her master's work provided an ecological critique of five decades of green architecture in the United States—and a bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Kansas.