Professor Scott Lawrence Angus is an avid adventure seeker and has travelled the world working as a photographer for humanitarian and environmental reasons including working with the Filipino Special Forces. He is the Director of Photography and Video/Film Studies at Maryville University. He is the recipient of the University’s prestigious Diversity and Inclusion Award and the Global Awareness Award. Angus produced a film about the Dental Crisis in Rural Missouri that helped connivence the State to raise Medicaid reimbursement rates giving thousands of kids access to dental care. He  is working on a book about the fragile landscape of the Ozarks and continues to work to protect sacred lands.