Education Specialist
Melanie Cooley arrived in Tucson from the Midwest over 35 years ago and fell immediately in love with the Sonoran Desert. Her passions are desert-friendly gardening, habitat restoration, water harvesting, critters, and dance. She has been an educator throughout her career: teaching English for Speakers of other Languages, composition, rhetoric, logic, movement, and sustainable desert living. She has an MFA in English from the University of Michigan and is a certified 5Rhythms (movement/dance meditation) teacher.