Ylanda Wilhite

Youth & Community Partnerships Organizer

Keller Science Action Center
Science Focus

Ylanda is the Senior Partnership Coordinator on the Keller Science Action Center's Chicago Region team. She fosters positive connections to nature, trains the next generation of conservation leaders, and builds the capacity of the Field Museum and its partners to best support future leaders within formal and non-formal educational institutions.

Native Flower Gardening

Freshwater Aqua-scaping

Education and Work

Lewis University: Organizational Leadership with a concentration in Not-For-Profit Management (MA)

Illinois State University: Anthropology and Spanish (BA)