Carey Hotaling is a mother and grandmother who has spent her career teaching about the environment. Her undergraduate and graduate degrees focused on a humanities integration of Environmental Studies and “Integrated Day K-8 Education” at Antioch University. Her career was spent learning from her own two boys and students, developing K-5 curriculum for the Wells Reserve, working as a program coordinator at the Maine Audubon Society and at the Freeport Historical Society (with a focus on human ecology of Harraseeket River estuary), and as a public middle school science and English teacher.