Emily Scott is an artist and educator whose work, within and outside of academia, explores intersections between art, geography, and the environment. In 2004, after many years as a park ranger naturalist, she founded the Los Angeles Urban Rangers, a collective that offers site-specific programming in and about Los Angeles and its everyday urban landscapes/ecologies. She is currently a doctoral candidate in art history at UCLA, writing a dissertation on landscape-based art from the 1960s-1970s and the wasteland spaces where it took place. During the 2007-2008 academic year, she is a Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum as well as a Switzer Environmental Fellow and Carter Manny Awardee