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Hilda Mechthild Krus is the Director of the Horticultural Society of New York's GreenHouse Program on Rikers Island Correctional Facility. Together with her team, she provides women, men and young adults who are incarcerated with horticultural therapy, class room horticultural training and applied education as well as year-round hands-on experience in horticulture. Hilda trains and supervises Horticultural Therapy students as well as Interns from related fields. Hilda is a registered Horticultural Therapist (HTR) and Social Worker (MSW, University of Essen, Germany). She has served on the board of the American Horticultural Therapy Association (AHTA) and gives presentations at local, national and international HT conferences. In 2012, Hilda received AHTA's Rhea McCandliss Professional Service Award, and in 2017 the GreenHouse Program received the "Program Excellence Award" from the Mid Atlantic Horticultural Therapy Network.
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