People

After being raised on a farm in New Jersey, Katie migrated to Pennsylvania to attend Gettysburg College, from which she received her B.A. in Sociology, with accompanying minors in Education and English. As part of that education, she interned at ThorpeWood and afterward refused to leave. And so, in time, she was adopted as one of the farm animals, a barefoot creature who subsists on mud and sunshine. Given these muddy roots, Katie is passionate about bringing children and adults alike into her world of buttercups and bugs.

On the home front, Katie and her husband, Alec, cohabitate with a variety of cute creatures, including a small pack of dogs (Ruby, Chester, and June) and two little girls (Josie and Ivy).

Katie is a certified forest therapy guide through The Forest Therapy School.

Vihaan is an 18-year-old student from McLean, Virginia attending the University of California, Berkeley studying Energy Engineering and Computer Science. He is a passionate climate advocate having co-founded Youth Climate Action Team (YCAT), an international nonprofit with 2000+ volunteers. YCAT aims to increase accessibility to the climate movement through education, research, and advocacy opportunities. He also published a picture book about climate change titled “Turtle’s Climate Adventure”, a #1 release on Amazon. Outside of his nonprofit work, he launched a youth group working with the Fairfax County School Board to include climate education in the elementary school curriculum. 

Project WILD Coordinator in Southern California, Zoo Curator of Education at the Santa Ana Zoo (Santa Ana, CA); always ready to get out and play in nature!