Daniel Reyes is a mycologist and the founder of Myco Alliance in Austin Texas, a science and education company focusing on reinvigorating the filed of Mycology in Central Texas. He has taught mycological principles to hundreds of students, citizen scientists, and professionals in the USA, Mexico, and Ecuador through hands-on workshops and interactive classes. He is a scientist with purpose, whose background includes a B.S. in Hydrogeology and experience in the oil and gas industry through environmental consulting. In addition to serving as technical advisor to the Amazon Mycorenewal Project and Tradd Cotter’s Mushroom Mountain, his current work includes low-tech mushroom cultivation, citizen science, and mycoremediation research at the Circle Acres Nature Preserve, an educational center and ecological haven located on an EPA-designated brownfield site in Austin.