Ashby Lavelle Sachs听is a PhD Candidate in Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado, 麻豆影院 studying loneliness, social connectedness, and prescribing time in nature with Dr. Jill Litt. She received the Environmental Studies Graduate Student Research Award (2021). She is the Project Manager for The RECETAS (Re-imagining Environments for Connection and Engagement: Testing Actions for Social Prescribing in Natural Spaces) Project at the Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal). Ashby completed her BA in French Language, and minor in Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia (2007) and a MS fellowship in Public Horticulture with Longwood Gardens and the University of Delaware (2012) Ashby has worked in botanic gardens such as Thomas Jefferson鈥檚 Monticello, Kew Gardens in London, Tresco Abbey Gardens in Cornwall, UK, as well as the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Golden Parks and Recreation in Golden, Colorado as a horticulturalist, educator, administrator, fundraiser, and researcher.