John Schaefer
John Schaefer received his A.B. from Harvard University in History and Science. He previously joined the Plant Humanities Initiative as a Digital Plant Humanities Intern and is pursuing an MPhil in Digital Humanities at Trinity College, Cambridge as the 2022-23 Eben Fiske Scholar. He is particularly interested in the interdisciplinary application of plants as teaching tools in conservation, ecology, and evolutionary biology at botanic gardens, as well as increasing public engagement with archival collections through the digital humanities.