Colleen McVeigh works in the Action Center at the the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, IL. In the Action Center, Colleen leads the YCA team's initiative to develop educator capacity in environmental education through the implementation of professional development workshops and instructional coaching. She is a National Board certified teacher with more than 25 years of experience working with youth. Colleen tries to instill a passion to explore the world and a wonder for nature into her work with teachers and students. Colleen is an amateur birder and horticulture enthusiast. During her more than two decades in the classroom she developed science and nature units of study on trees, monarchs, birds and local ecosystems in addition to helping to install and maintain gardens in two school yards, and in the local community.