Biography

Nadine Anne Bopp is a native Chicagoan. She grew up on Chicago's Southside and later attended high school in Evergreen Park. Bopp completed her bachelor's degree at the University of Missouri in Columbia majoring in Biology with an emphasis in Ecology. Thus began her lifelong involvement in all things environmental. From being an organic gardener to petitioning for the first city-only bottle deposit law (Columbia, MO) in the country to her current development of the Chicago Greenmaps through The School of the Art Institute where she teaches, environmental concern has been a guiding factor throughout her life.

Bopp's love of travel has taken her to twenty-one countries around the world. This wanderlust was the catalyst for Bopp to return to graduate school after her son was grown to pursue a degree in Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. With a background in Ecology and design the next logical step for Bopp was urban planning.

After living and working outside of Chicago for many years, Bopp returned to the city of her birth in late 1994. Her first job was a grant position at the Forest Preserve District of Cook County as an environmental planner with the task of developing an ecosystem management plan for their 67,000 acre holding.

Working with young people has always been part of Bopp's community service regime. She organized the first Pee-Wee baseball teams for the Kirkwood, Mo YMCA for 5-7 year olds, was a parent volunteer for a hands-on horticulture program in the West County public schools and later was a parent leader for a 4-H program in urban agriculture in Columbia, MO. Today Bopp's position as a college professor at three local colleges keeps her actively engaged with young adults and current on the latest technological advances that will lead out country to a sustainable future. Nadine has developed classes in urban studies, environmental science, sustainable living practices, green architecture, mapping and of course, botany and landscape design. She teaches at The School of the Art Institute, Columbia College and DePaul University.

The combination of education, professional experience and dedication to a safe, secure and sustainable future has lead Bopp to seek the office of Commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. Nadine not only teaches sustainability, she lives it. This is why she has chosen the Green Party to represent her views for this office.