Meet Penny, DUG’s Community Liaison & Garden Associate
Penny is an 8th-generation Coloradan, but she didn’t appreciate the state till she moved to the mountains to care for their grandma. During this time, Penny started hiking, using reusables, eating a vegetarian diet, and overall: connecting to nature. Eventually, she had an epiphany that sustainability is her calling and got a degree in it at Arizona State University.
As a student, Penny was an Undergraduate Research Fellow studying gender equity in agriculture and she continued her research by working on a chili farm in Denmark after graduation. One day, Penny has a dream of wearing yellow overalls and living off the land. For now, Penny is passionate about making sustainable behaviors fun, easy, and engaging. In their free time, Penny LOVES frolicking through the woods, singing karaoke, and dancing like no one’s watching.
Did you know Penny has a climate change power pantsuit and used to dress up as Miss Frizzle to teach elementary students about compost, lifecycles, where plastic bags come from, and whatever else made them curious.
