Lisa Blakely

Lisa Blakley (Knoxville GC, Zone IX) is the founder of the Knoxville GC’s Plant Blindness/Plant Vision Program, an initiative formed to counteract the world’s inability to differentiate and name plants. This plant-based learning curriculum developed by Lisa Blakley, a former teacher, is hosted at Knoxville’s Blount Mansion, home of William Blount, a signer of the US Constitution. To date, this effective program administered by the Knoxville GC has empowered more than 4,000 community children to not just see “green” but look, listen, taste, smell and hear the world around them a bit differently.