I have been known as The Butterfly Lady for more than thirty years. I am a storyteller, and a performer and I have taught at the college level. I have been involved with butterflies in many ways, including collecting stories, myths, legends, poems, superstitions and art about the butterfly, with the recurring cross-cultural themes of transformation, love, death and rebirth and spiritual awakening. In 1977, after raising and releasing monarch butterflies for several years, I went to Mexico to search for their hibernation grounds, knowing only the altitude and the type of tree in which they rested. I spent two months in the mountains before finally encountering 50 million monarch butterflies mating on the first day of spring. There were many lessons for me along the way. I have had a gallery dedicated to the butterfly, choreographed dances, created art and wearable art, given lectures, and planted gardens for them. I have worked at the butterfly conservatory at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City for ten years and continue to be there alternate Thursday afternoons. I share the many messages of the butterflies as I travel, giving lectures around the country. I was on the Board of Directors of Michoacan Reforestion Fund for seven years and am currently on the Board of Directors of the La Cruz Habitat Protection Project, Inc.