Brooke Pudar

Brooke Pudar currently serves as the Head of Community Engagement at The Morton Arboretum, focusing on equitable partnerships that enhance access to trees and nature for diverse communities. Pudar's experience includes various roles at The Morton Arboretum aimed at adult learning and community engagement, where programming emphasizes diversity and inclusion in natural spaces. As a freelance editor and writer since 2012, Pudar provides consulting and content development for K–12 educational projects, with a notable background in editing for organizations like McGraw-Hill Education and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Pudar's early career involved teaching Spanish at Fenton High School and holds a BA in English Education with a minor in Spanish from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.