Lynne is a born and raised Iowan and has been a lifelong learner and educator. She was a middle school science teacher at Woodward-Granger Community School District for 8 years. After serving a fellowship in Washington D.C., she served 4 years as a science consultant at Central Rivers Area Education Agency where she provided guidance to improve teaching and learning for educators and students at over 40 schools. Since 2012, she continued her service as an Extension Educator for Iowa State University Extension and Outreach 4-H Youth Development. She is a passionate conservation advocate, who is known as the “Butterfly Lady” by colleagues and students who participated in pollinator conservation programming. The Monarch Eggs Project has reached over 37,000 students in 1600 classrooms since 2018 with the support of funding from the Iowa DNR’s Conservation Education Program (CEP). Lynne recently received the Chris Holt Youth Environmental Education Award from Iowa Conservation Education Coalition (ICEC) for the invaluable work she has done for pollinator and agriculture conservation. 

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“This isn’t the Iowa I grew up in where schools were always identified as one of the top states in education and it’s not the Iowa that I have been honored to serve. Over the last decade, we’ve dropped from 4th to 24th in education and those effects are being seen in our kids, our schools, and our communities. We need to stop underfunding our educators and public schools so we can move back into top-of-class education as we used to be in Iowa. We also need to respect and preserve the abundant natural resources that our state has to offer. Our soils are some of the best in the country and even the world. But we can do more to support conservation efforts and protect our environment. We need to make real investments to protect Iowans’ natural resources and secure a better future for generations to come. Improving our future includes raising wages, finding solutions to address Iowa’s critical workforce shortage, and reducing taxes for regular working people rather than supporting special interests” added Campbell. “We need to respect the individual freedoms of Iowans, specifically those between a woman and her doctor.”