Eva Peskin is the tender of this garden, and a collaborative performing artist and PhD student in the department of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland—College Park, curious about performance as civic pedagogy, digital and public humanities, and new materialist approaches to ecology and geography. Most recently before joining the UMD community, she worked facilitating media literacy programs with The Learning About Multimedia Project, coordinating live programming and outreach for Culturebot, and paying the bills in restaurant service. As a performer, musician/composer, technologist, and rigorous conceptualizer with New York-based artists ANIMALS Performance Group, Superhero Clubhouse, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, and The Operating Theater (among many others), Eva has made work in places like The Leslie Lohman Gallery for Gay and Lesbian Art, The Public Theater, Dixon Place, PS122, Gallim Dance, Silent Barn, the Queens Museum, and the LaMont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Current project: Queer Scouts (co-founded with Justine Williams), a social practice performance troupe engaging queer adults in a critical and playful process to identify, work on, and question praxes for surviving and thriving in/with community. Justine and Eva were 2015-2016 Queer Arts Mentorship Performance Fellows, working with mentor Talvin Wilks. Eva holds an MFA in Performance and Interactive Media Arts from Brooklyn College and a BA in Music from Barnard College.