When Babette Papineau enrolled at College of Marin in the spring of 2023, she hoped to become a naturalist.
The 34-year-old mother of two took an environmental science class with professor Joe Mueller and quickly came to see him as an environmental hero and an expert in the field she hoped to enter.
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“I put him on a pedestal,” Papineau said.
In the summer of 2024, Papineau said she reached out to Mueller for guidance after deciding to pursue the college’s natural history certificate.
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