Dr. Maggie Gaddis is the executive director of the Colorado Native Plant Society. Maggie is a restoration ecologist by academic training. She originally started volunteering for CoNPS as the southeast chapter chair because she needed more botanists to participate in her citizen sciencebased research in the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs. Graduate students from all over the Front Range came down to help her collect data, and that is when she knew that her people were in CoNPS. Maggie was hired in 2021 as the first executive director of CoNPS.