{"id":40,"date":"2026-05-13T00:19:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T00:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educa.madrone.community\/fgs-fieldschool-1\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2026-05-13T00:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T00:19:18","slug":"instructors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/educa.madrone.community\/fgs-fieldschool-1\/instructors\/","title":{"rendered":"Instructors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"573\" src=\"https:\/\/educa.madrone.community\/fgs-fieldschool-1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/Screenshot_20231128_075113_Photos-1024x573.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman with short natural hair and partially bald white man laugh as they take a picture as snow falls around them. He is wearing a white, red, and blue floral button-up shirt with the top buttons open and they are wearing a dark floral dress wit a sparkling scarf around their neck. Both of them wear glasses, sport laugh creases, and apple cheeks from their big smiles as they laugh.\" class=\"wp-image-42 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educa.madrone.community\/fgs-fieldschool-1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/Screenshot_20231128_075113_Photos-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/educa.madrone.community\/fgs-fieldschool-1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/Screenshot_20231128_075113_Photos-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/educa.madrone.community\/fgs-fieldschool-1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/Screenshot_20231128_075113_Photos-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/educa.madrone.community\/fgs-fieldschool-1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/Screenshot_20231128_075113_Photos.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>TDr. Linda Maepa <\/strong>and<strong><br>TDr. Rob Ferber<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Linda (they\/Gogo\/she) &amp; Rob (he\/Mkhulu) are sangomas, scientists, (grand)parents, inventors, entrepreneurs, farmers, engineers, and polymaths. Linda homeschooled their now-adult kids and now their youngest. They live, work, and care for a large plant library across the California Bay Area and in Southern California.  Their home is a work of research and labor of love for adaptation of farm crops in a warming world under agroforestry conditions. Linda splits their time between California and South Africa with their work on African healthcare systems while Rob spends his time not-teaching on infrastructure and transportation engineering.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They met at Caltech where they trained as Earth scientists with a focus on bioinformatics, phylogenetics, and evolution of physical conditions of life (Linda) and genetics, evolutionary biology, and geophysics &amp; remote sensing (Rob). Linda has a BS in Geology (Geobiology) and Rob is former Faculty of Botany at Claremont Graduate University\u2019s Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TDr. Linda Maepa andTDr. Rob Ferber Linda (they\/Gogo\/she) &amp; Rob (he\/Mkhulu) are sangomas, scientists, (grand)parents, inventors, entrepreneurs, farmers, engineers, and polymaths. Linda homeschooled their now-adult kids and now their youngest. They live, work, and care for a large plant library across the California Bay Area and in Southern California. Their home is a work of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educa.madrone.community\/fgs-fieldschool-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educa.madrone.community\/fgs-fieldschool-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educa.madrone.community\/fgs-fieldschool-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educa.madrone.community\/fgs-fieldschool-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educa.madrone.community\/fgs-fieldschool-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/educa.madrone.community\/fgs-fieldschool-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/educa.madrone.community\/fgs-fieldschool-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educa.madrone.community\/fgs-fieldschool-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}