​Kathleen Knight, Kelly Church, Daniel Atha, & Jonathan Rosenthal

Teaches at New York Botanical Garden

​Kathleen Knight, Ph.D. is a Research Ecologist for the Northern Research Station, US Forest Service.

Kelly Church is an award-winning fifth-generation black ash basket weaver. Kelly is a featured speaker at our Saving the American Ash summit about the cultural importance of ash trees and the danger they face from the Emerald Ash Borer beetle.

Daniel Atha is the Conservation Program Manager at The New York Botanical Garden. He has conducted botanical field work in all 50 states of the US as well as Vietnam, Bolivia, Mexico, Belize, and several states of the former Soviet Union. His work is focused on three areas: floristics—what plants grow in a particular region; taxonomy—how to tell one plant from another, what to call it and what it's related to; and applied botany—how plants are used for food, medicine, shelter and other useful purposes. He is an associate editor of the Garden's systematic botany journal, Brittonia, and holds a Bachelor of Arts from the City University of New York.

Jonathan Rosenthal, M.S., J.D. is the Director of the Ecological Research Institute in Kingston, NY