Anna A. Sher is a full professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Uni versity of Denver, where she has been faculty since 2003. Until 2010 she held this position jointly with the Denver Botanic Gardens as the Director of Research and Conservation. As a student, she was a double major in Biology and Art at Earlham College, where she has also taught ecology, and was the co-leader of the Earlham Study Abroad Kenya Program. She received her PhD from the University of New Mexico, where she also taught botany as a visiting lecturer. As a postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Sher was awarded a Fulbright postdoctoral research fellowship to conduct research on plant interactions in Israel at Ben Gurion University’s Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, and she also studied the ecology of an invasive grass at the University of California, Davis. She has also been a visiting professor at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand