Miguel Ordeñana is an environmental educator and wildlife biologist. Currently, he is Senior Manager of Community Science at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles, where he creates community science projects and recruits and trains participants. He conducts urban mammal research in L.A. and co-leads NHMLAC’s Southern California Squirrel Survey. He also works, locally and internationally, on carnivore and bat research. Ordeñana received his B.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of Southern California and his M.S. in Ecology from the University of California Davis.