Experience and Interests

Teaching

• Global Affiliate Scholar/Instructor, UW-Stevens Point, Educational Sustainability Program (2018-present)
• Executive Education, UW-Stevens Point, MBA (2021-23)
• Instructor, Lakeland College (2017)
• Instructor, UW-Stevens Point, College of Natural Resources (2012-2015)

Research Interests

• Sense of Place
• Environmental Behaviors
• Civic Engagement

Professional

• Co-Owner, Tapped Maple Syrup (2017-present)
• Maple Syrup Project Manager, UW-Madison Division of Extension (2021-present)
• Leadership Specialist, UW-Madison Division of Extension (2019-2021)
• National Project Manager, ThinkWater, University of Wisconsin-Extension (2015-2019)
• Interim Director, Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education, UW-Stevens Point (2012-2015)
• K-12 Forestry Program Director, UW-Stevens Point (2007-2012)
• Wisconsin School Forest Coordinator, UW-Stevens Point (2003-2007)

Presentations and Publications

Publications

• Solin, J. (2017). The Place of Food Systems: Exploring the Relationship between Sense of Place and Community Food Systems Engagement. Journal of Sustainability Education, May 2017

Involvement

Community

• Central Rivers Farmshed, Board Chair (2020-present)
• Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin, Board Member (2019-present)
• Milwaukee Water Commons, Board Member (2019-present)

Fun Facts

Last book you read?

The River Why by David James Duncan (3rd or 4th time I’ve read it)

Best advice you ever received?

Treat others how they’d like to be treated.

What did you want to be when you were growing up?

Baseball player

Favorite Quote?

“Eating is an agricultural act.” – Wendell Berry