Maggie Lemere is a DC-based documentary filmmaker, oral historian, and National Geographic Explorer, whose projects explore people’s relationship to the environment. She’s currently directing a National Geographic Society-supported film, Land of Canaan, about the relationship between indigenous communities and old-growth olive trees in Palestine, and co-directing and producing films following environmental changemakers in Southeast Asia and the U.S. Maggie is the co-founder of Rhiza Collective, a women-led collective that uses storytelling, healing, organizing, and research to support social transformation and environmental justice. Maggie is a trained Master Naturalist and serves as Oral Historian for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.