Ellie joined AGCI in 2015 with experience fostering creative communication between the public and scientific information. She has since developed AGCI's Science through Illustration initiative, aimed at bolstering AGCI's creative media outreach through illustration and graphic representations of science and research. Before joining AGCI, Ellie worked in the environmental education field as a naturalist and high school biology teacher. She holds a B.A. in ‘Science, Technology, and Society’ with an emphasis in environmental policy from the University of Puget Sound. In her free time, Ellie performs as a genre-bending cellist and vocalist. Contact Ellie: ebarber (at) agci (dot) org.