Travis Tennessen is a 2000 graduate of Mineral Point High School.  He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  At Madison, he studied and taught about environmental history and community-based research management.  Travis then moved to Penn State University where he lectured for three years and for one year was a postdoctoral scholar.  Currently, Travis works for the Center for Service-Learning at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.