Salate to Our Fabulous Environmental Summit Counselors

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Left to Right; Katie Barbee, Morgan King, Ron Stewart, 
Kerstin Brown, Mark Conrad, Patrick Moore, and Ka'Shara Davis

A special thanks a million to our Redesigning Our Future counselors! 

A super huge thanks to our Green Ink Blogger's counselor Morgan King!

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