Heather Sullivan-Catlin is Professor of Sociology at SUNY Potsdam. Her primary areas of teaching and scholarship center on families, sustainable communities and community food security. She has been active in a variety of local sustainability efforts, chiefly through her long involvement with GardenShare, and her current leadership role on the North Country Sustainability Day and Green Living Fair organizing committee. She is also a member of the Thrive Ithaca Ecovillage Education Center (https://www.thriveithaca.org/) advisory board.