Kris Stepenuck is Associate Director and Extension Leader for Lake Champlain Sea Grant and Extension Associate Professor in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont in the US. For more than 25 years, she has collaborated with community members to understand and address the impacts of land use and a changing world on surface waterbodies. Kris holds a Ph.D. in Environment and Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, skiing, and bicycling.