Price served as a Program Fellow for the Career Conservation Development Program at the Student Conservation Association from 1991 to 1994. Afterward, she became an Interpretive National Park Ranger with the National Park Service at Lake Mead in Nevada. She served in the role for a year before joining The Nature Conservancy as Program Manager of Capital Conservation Corps in 1996. Price took her experiences in outdoor recreation and education to the Earth Conservation Corps in Washington, D.C., as an Environmental Education Consultant while concurrently working as an Education and Outreach Consultant for The Anacostia Watershed Society (1997-1998). Afterward, she returned to the Student Conservation Association as Program Manager of the Anacostia River Education Initiative. She served in the role for four years until 2001 before joining Discovery Creek Children’s Museum as the Community Programs Manager, highlighting her expertise and passion for engaging with communities.

In 2005, Price returned to Earth Conservation Corps as the Environmental Education Director. As Director, she oversaw the development, implementation, and management of education programs. In particular, Price cultivated relationships with youth impacted by the juvenile justice system. From 2007 to 2011, she served as the Chief of Education and Programs for the New York Restoration Project. Her responsibilities included organizing, directing, and developing a nature program that increased awareness and connection through environmental education and leadership. In 2010, she joined Cornell University’s Executive Leadership Team for their EECapacity Project, facilitating educational activities, events, and programs emphasizing equity and diversity. Additionally, as part of this project, she helped engage residents in neighborhood revitalization.

Upon leaving Cornell in 2014, Price joined D.C. Promise Neighborhood Initiative, Inc. As a Family and Community Engagement Specialist, she helped support community-driven efforts to improve outcomes for children in underserved neighborhoods. In her specific role, she connected people, places, and programs using trauma-informed environmentalism to foster healing and engagement. Price’s work focused on improving mental, social, and physical well-being through nature-based engagements.

In 2018, Price founded the Friends of Anacostia Park, where she works as a Community Liaison Consultant. Anacostia Park is Washington, D.C.’s largest recreation area, with over 1200 acres spread across sites operated by the National Park Service. In her current position, she builds alliances and partnerships to help the Park create new connections and advance outdoor recreation.

Price highlights that there have been numerous challenges in her career, especially during her time as an environmental educator. She “didn’t feel like there was a lens of humanity for these kids. They just made automatic assumptions about these kids because they were Black, because they were poor, because their parents were struggling. It was like they never thought
of them as just children” (2024). This mindset led to a disconnect between other educators, the community they served, and Price. She discusses that the lens she brought was often different than the ones others were expecting or used to, which resulted in undervaluing her and her work. However, her dedicated work ethic helped raise money for the organization, yet she did not receive recognition for her work. These forms of gaslighting eventually led her to “work for [herself}” as the Founder of Friends of Anacostia Park.

While each role has held different challenges, Price highlights that engaging with people where they are and in ways they need, instead of a generalized approach often pursued by many in the environmental field, motivates and inspires her. Throughout her career, she has focused on serving others. While she is an environmentalist and environmental educator, the “park could totally just be a backdrop to where [social services] happen. [She] didn’t have to be talking about the trees and the grass” (2024). Her career highlights include her experiences in creating and building community through social services and an emphasis on humanity, with an environmental backdrop or undertone. She operates with the blief that “it’s about what you’re modeling as a human,” meaning that it doesn’t matter what one’s race, gender, or background is, as we can all learn and teach one another so long as we do so with humility and humanity (2024).