Jesús García

Jesús Manuel García was born and raised in Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, México. In 1987, after finishing a degree in Elementary Education, (Escuela Normal del Estado) in Hermosillo, Sonora, he moved to Tucson, Arizona. In 1996 he returned to school and attended Pima Community College and the University of Arizona. By December of 2001 he completed a Bachelor degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, with a minor in cultural Anthropology. Jesus has been associated with the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum since 1991, first as a Docent then as a bilingual educator. He is currently a Research Specialist there and teaches natural history programs to the Hispanic community of the Tucson area schools and schoolteachers and youth in the border region of the state of Sonora, Mexico. He is also Director of the Kino Heritage Fruit Trees program. His many interests include conservation biology, music, drawing, cultural ecology, languages, and gardening.

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