Alexis Harte was a community forester with URI during 1993 and 1994 in both New Haven and Baltimore. After his time at URI and Yale, he went out to apply the skills he learned in the Amazon, and spent three years of community forestry work in various settings and for various local and international groups. Alexis then moved back to San Francisco and spent four years with Friends of the Urban Forest. Currently, he is coordinating the Urban Forest Council through San Francisco’s Department of the Environment. Alexis says that the two summers he spent in Baltimore were, "without a doubt, the most formative of his professional life. The situations he encountered there have reappeared over the course of his work. The actors are different; the plants are different; but many of the governing dynamics are the same."

In his spare time, Alexis writes and records original songs—which have been heard nationally on The WB, UPN, Nickelodeon, and on several episodes of PBS's Bill Moyers Now (www.alexisharte.com).