Valerie Imbruce

							                                                                Angela Steward
                                                  Graduate Studies, The New York Botanical Garden
                                                           200th St. and Kazimiroff Blvd., Bronx, NY
                                                                                    Ph. 646.824.0670
                                                                                 asteward@nybg.org
                                                      http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/Profile_79.asp

EDUCATION

Ph.D. 2007      Graduate Center of the City University of New York
(expected, May) Joint Program with New York Botanical Garden Graduate Studies
                  Ph.D., Plant Sciences
                Dissertation Title: There are no farmers here: Agrodiversity, land-use and
                livelihood change in Carvão and Mutuacá, Brazil
                Dissertation Supervisor: Dr. Christine Padoch

B.A. 2000         Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, Earth and Environmental Sciences

AWARDS and HONORS

2006              College Now, Teaching Fellow, Center for the Advanced Study of
                  Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

2005-2006         Research Assistant, National Science Foundation, Human and Social
                  Dynamics, PI, Dr. Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez, Global markets, regional
                  landscapes, and household decisions: Modeling the history of
                  transformation of the Amazon estuary

2004- 2006        Environmental Protection Agency, Science to Achieve Results (STAR),
                  Graduate Research Fellowship, $27,000 (annual)

2004-2006         Honorary Research Associate, Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicas,
                  Universidade Federal do Pará, Brasil (Ctr. for Amazonian Studies, Federal
                  University of Pará, Brazil)

2004              Torrey Botanical Society Symposium Award, $1000

2003-2004         National Science Foundation GK-12 Teaching Fellowship, Center for the
                  Advanced Study of Education, Graduate Center of the City University of
                  New York, $27, 000

2003               Society for Economic Botany, Schultes Award, Honorable Mention

2001               New England BioLabs Foundation, Individual Grant program, $3000

1999               Dana Grant for summer research, Wesleyan University, $3200


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 1997-1999          NESCAC Scholar Athlete Award, Cross-Country and Track and Field

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


 2003-2004, 2006 Graduate Teaching Fellow, the Center for the Advanced Study of Education,
                Graduate Center of the City University of New York (program funding
                sources - NSF GK-12 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, College Now (CUNY)
                   Gave lectures, organized and taught labs for Advanced Placement Biology in
                    Bronx High Schools.
                   Developed curricula including lab protocols, research papers, and field trips for
                    Advanced Placement biology courses.
                   Collaborated with CUNY professors and high school teachers to discuss
                    approaches to secondary science education
                   Managed budgets for the purchase of lab and teaching materials


 2000-2003      Research Associate, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Science Department, New
                York Metropolitan Flora Project
                   Conducted floristic research for the NYMF project, including plant surveys and
                    identifications, treatment of taxa, creation of species distribution maps
                   Coordinated science college internship program
                   Mentored Brooklyn high school students in completion of research paper
                   Presented original research at conferences and published peer-reviewed research
                    papers

1998            Research Assistant, Program Andes Tropicales (Tropical Andes Program),
                Ethnobotany Project, Mérida, Venezuela
                   Conducted medicinal plant inventories on farmers’ properties and markets
                   Created database and maps for the organization

TEACHING
 2006          Adjunct Professor, Lehman College (CUNY), Department of Biology,
               Courses taught: Plants and People: An introduction to Economic Botany

 2006          Graduate Teaching Fellow, College Now, Advanced Placement Biology,
               Pelham Preparatory Academy, Bronx, NY

 2003-2004     NSF GK-12 Teaching Fellow, Advanced Placement Biology, Christopher
               Columbus High School, Bronx, NY

 2003          Instructor, Continuing Education and Public Programs, The New York
               Botanical Garden, Course taught: Healing Plants




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PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
2002           GIS and GPS for Conservation and Wildlife Managers, Smithsonian
               Institution, Washington, DC

2002           Introduction to GIS, ESRI Short course

1998           College Semester Abroad Program, Cultural and Natural Ecology of
               Venezuela, School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Steward, A. (in press 2006). “Nobody Farms Here Anymore: Livelihood Diversification in the
 RESEARCH
Amazonian community of Carvão, a historical perspective.” Agriculture and Human Values
24(1).

Steward, A.M., Clemants, S. E., and Moore, G. 2003. “The concurrent decline of the native
Celastrus scandens and spread of the non-native Celastrus orbiculatus in the New York
metropolitan area.” Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society. Volume 130 (2): 143-146.

Moore, G., Steward, A., Clemants, S., Glenn, S., Ma, J. 2002. “Overview of the New York
Metropolitan Flora Project,” Urban Habitats, Volume 1(1): 1-10. <www.urbanhabitats.com>

PRESENTATIONS

Poster, EPA STAR Graduate Fellows Conference, Washington, DC, September 23-26, 2006,
Farming for conservation: Agrodiversity and livelihood change in Amazonia, Amapá, Brazil

Paper, American Association of Geographers, Chicago March 7-11, 2006, Nobody Farms Here
Anymore: Livelihood diversification and deagrarianization in the Amazonian community of
Carvão, a historical perspective

Invited Paper, Ninth Congress of the International Society of Economic Botany in Canterbury,
England, June 13-17, 2004, Urbanization and Agricultural change in the Amazonian
communities of Mazagão Novo, Mazagão Velho and Carvão

Panel Moderator/Discussant, New Farmers, New Consumers and New Networks, Food
Sovereignty, Agroecology, and New Social Movements in the Americas, Yale University, CT,
April, 2004.

Poster, EPA STAR Graduate Fellows Conference, Washington, DC, October 11-13, 2004,
Linking biodiversity to agricultural change: Case studies from three Amazonian communities,
Amapá, Brazil.

Poster, The Biodiversity of the Hudson River Watershed Area, American Museum of Natural
History, 2000, The New York Metropolitan Flora Project



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FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Portuguese and Spanish, fluency in speaking and reading; proficient in writing

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member, Association of American Geographers; Member, American Anthropological
Association; Member, New York Academy of Sciences; Member, Society of Economic
Botany
OUTREACH
2005              English language instruction, Mazagão, Brazil

2003-2004         Volunteer scientist for WildMetro (local conservation NGO); conducted
                  plant inventories in New York City Parks; trained college interns in plant
                  identification techniques.

2004-2005         Tour Guide, New York Botanical Garden

1996-1998         High school tutor, Connecticut Upward Bound Program, Wesleyan
                  University
REFERENCES
Dr. Christine Padoch
The Matthew Calbraith Perry Curator of Economic Botany
New York Botanical Garden
200th St and Kazimiroff Blvd.
Bronx, NY 10458
Office: 718-817-8975
cpadoch@nybg.org

Dr. Victor Strozak
Center for Advanced Study of Education
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Ave
NY, NY 10016
Office: 212-817-1825
vstrozak@gc.cuny.edu

Dr. Miguel Pinedo Vasquez
Center for Environmental Research and Conservation
Columbia University, MC 5557
Schermerhorn Extension, 10th Floor
1200 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027
Office: 212-854-8178
map57@columbia.edu




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