Jie Jin is a mushroom grower and founder of Curiouseed, an education studio with a mission to inspire nature awareness through playful, experimental, and hands-on experiences with fungi. Jie is a member of the New York Mycology Society and a certified permaculturist. She founded the Teaming with Fungi Meetup, and has taught or spoken at GrowNYC, NYC Parks, Queens Botanical Garden, CUNY, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and AgTechX, among others. Currently, Jie is organizing Intelligent Fungi, an exhibition and workshop series as part of Governors Island's 2019 public season.