Jacquelyn J. Johnston is a Visiting Teaching Professor of Geography at FIU whose scholarship spans animal geography, urban political ecology, and environmental humanities. Her research examines animal-human relations and how categories like "native," "nonnative," and "feral" shape conservation policy, producing uneven geographies of protection, exclusion, and killability. In Feral Conservation Praxis: Reimagining Conservation by Learning from Urban Nonhuman Guides, Johnston examines how urban nonhuman animals reorient conservation thinking, arguing that their stories are not symbolic stand-ins for human experience but opportunities to honor their lives and recognize them as active participants in the continual reworking of urban space.