Nadav Sprague is the founding president and CEO of Gateway to the Great Outdoors, a nonprofit dedicated to providing equitable access to nature-based environmental education to children from low-income, urban areas. Nadav is also pursuing his Ph.D. in Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. He holds a Master’s in Public Health and a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Earth Science from Washington University in St. Louis. He has previously worked as a researcher at the National Cancer Institute, a canoe trip guide at Camp Tamakwa, and in the educational department of Missouri Botanical Garden. Nadav loves going on canoe trips, hiking, boxing, and walking his dog (Tova).