Alison Paul, Founder

 Alison Paul has more than 15 years of experience strengthening people’s connections to themselves, others, and the place where they live. Alison is an active mom of two little kids, a yogi, a meditator, an outdoor fanatic, and a certified Forest Therapy Guide through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT). She worked for more than a decade at the Field Museum of Natural History’s Keller Science Action Center doing community-based conservation work and is now the Vice President of Community Conservation for a Chicagoland Land Trust, the Conservation Foundation along with the founder of Rooted Forest Therapy & Consulting.