Carol Davit is the executive director of the Missouri Prairie Foundation, a 52-year-old conservation organization and land trust whose mission is to protect and restore prairie and other native grassland communities through acquisition, management, education, and research. The Missouri Prairie Foundation also promotes the use of native plants through its 19-year-old Grow Native! program and supports the identification and control of invasive plant species through its Missouri Invasive Plant Task Force. Carol has been the editor of the the Missouri Prairie Journal since 1996 and has worked for more than 20 years in the conservation and environmental fields in communications, development, administration, and leadership capacities for  for private, nonprofit conservation groups and at the municipal and state government levels. Davit serves on the Missouri Monarch and Pollinator Conservation Steering Committee, the Missouri Environmental Literacy Advisory Board, is chair of the Conservation Federation of Missouri's Grasslands Committee and of the Missouri Invasive Plant Task Force. She has been the editor of field guides and written on a wide variety of natural history and conservation topics for the Missouri Conservationist and other publications. Davit has B.A. and M.A. degrees in Interdisciplinary Studies. She is the recipient of the Erna Eisendrath Memorial Education Award and the Plant Stewardship Award from the Missouri Native Plant Society, and lives in Jefferson City, MO with her husband and son.