Emma Baker

Emma Baker grew up in West Liberty, Iowa, and graduated from Creighton University in 2019 with a B.S. in Biology and Spanish with a minor in Sustainability. While she was at Creighton, she had the opportunity to work in a research lab, where she spent two summers hand-pollinating Stuckenia pectinata flowers to better understand the reproductive processes of aquatic plants. Pollination is just as important in agricultural research, even if it serves a very different research purpose. She was drawn to The Land Institute because of its interdisciplinary focus on looking to nature for solutions to the tough environmental problems our current agricultural system leaves us with.