Emily Scott is an artist and educator whose work, within and outside of academia, explores intersections between art, geography, and the environment. Prior to pitching camp in Los Angeles, she worked for almost a decade as a park ranger in Alaska, Utah, and Colorado, where her interpretive programs focused on the cultural production of nature (as opposed to the natural production of cities). She is a doctoral candidate in Art History at UCLA, and 2008-2009 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellow in American Art, composing a dissertation on land-based art from the 1960s-1970s and the “wasteland” spaces where it took place. An avid supporter of (un-)disciplinary crosspollination, she taught a course on post-1945 art and environmental sciences/politics within UCLA's Institute of the Environment (2005-7); has co-organized multiple interdisciplinary events including Field Works: Art/Geography at the Hammer Museum (2005); and currently writes and lectures about exchanges between contemporary art and geography.