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Barbara Wallace

Biographical Info

Barbara "Babs" Wallace
Barbara “Babs” Wallace – Jan 2012

Barbara “Babs” Wallace fostered by her parents’ love of the outdoors and organic gardening, Babs developed an early love of nature and spent her childhood running around the forests and fields of California and Virginia. Her later travels to Alaska, Hawaii, Costa Rica, and her mother’s native Philippines exposed her to critical global environmental issues, and conservation and preservation efforts.

While attending Christopher Newport University in 2007, she started to become more aware of sustainability on college campuses after encountering recycling issues on her dorm’s floor. After transferring to George Mason University in 2008, she found the Environmental Action Group and her involvement with student groups in increasing awareness of campus sustainability efforts blossomed.

Babs is currently on the Patriot Green Fund committee, works with the Mason Green Patriots program in supporting other groups’ green initiatives on campus, and tries her less-than-green thumb at home gardening so she can help out more in the Mason Organic Garden. In her free time, this crafty Babs likes to work on upcycling and (re)upholstery projects.

After dabbling in a few majors at Mason, she finally returned to her true interests and is currently majoring in Conservation through New Century College. This integrative program has sparked her interest in biocultural conservation and native peoples’ cultural and spiritual ties to the environment. She hopes to work with indigenous groups to preserve biocultural landscapes after her graduation in Summer 2012.

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