Michelle Schmidlkofer
Michelle is a local fiber artist and nature lover with a passion for non-profit organizations. After graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2013, she returned to Fort Worth and has been working with various Cultural District institutions ever since. She is proud to support the Garden in […]
Cheryl Potemkin
Cheryl happily discovered a career as an informal educator while working for the Imaginarium of South Texas in Laredo. Upon moving to Fort Worth, she continued as a contract informal educator specializing in art and science integration. She has strong connections to Fort Worth community organizations through her contract work, and continues to strengthen those […]
Connie Johnson
B.A. English Literature, Sonoma State University Growing up in Washington State, the woods around her home were Connie Johnson’s playground and land of imagination, leading to her true affinity with plants. She came to BRIT in 2013 as a new resident of Texas by way of New Mexico, Colorado, New England, and Northern California. She […]
Alejandra Vasco, Ph.D.
Robert George
Natch Azure
Bob O’Kennon
Jessica Lane
Jessica started working with the Philecology Herbarium as an intern in 2018. As her primary project, she curated specimens of threatened and endangered plants in the Vanderbilt collection. In 2019, she worked on two National Science Foundation grant funded projects – CSBR: RAPID: Ownership Transfer: Moving the University of Louisiana-Monroe herbarium to BRIT and the […]