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Elan Margulies aims to inspire joy and reverence for the natural world by integrating earth-based Jewish traditions and the wonders right outside our doors. He has taught ecology at Eden Village Camp, the Student Conservation Association and the Cornell University Naturalist Outreach Program, led hikes in Israel, volunteered in the Kalahari Desert, worked for the US National Park Service and directed a Jewish educational farm outside Chicago, where he learned that the best way to catch a goat is to run away from it. He pursued graduate studies in forest ecology at University of Michigan and The Hebrew University. In his free time, he enjoys finding wild edibles, brewing ginger beer and working with wood and metal. Most recently, he walked from Spain to Turkey.