People

Hello! My name is Cassie Poray and I am a soon to be college graduate from Ohio State University. My degree is in Natural Resource Management with a specialty in Parks and Recreation Visitor Services. I am looking to create opportunities to get youth outdoors and help them foster a connection with the world around them. I have worked as both a camp counselor and an outdoor educator in addition to working as an intern for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. A fun fact about myself is that I am a part of the inagural class of female Eagle Scouts.

Student, Sustainable Parks, Recreation and Tourism, College of Natural Resources, Michigan State University

I am currently a State Park Superintendent for Texas Parks and Wildlife. I have a Master's degree in Environmental Sustainability and Natural Resource Management where I focused on freshwater ecology and the creation of conservation educational programs through citizen science. 

Melissa King is an elementary school librarian in Montgomery County Public Schools. She is an active member of the Maryland Association of School Librarians and the Montgomery County Educational Media Staff Association. She serves on the Gaithersburg Book Festival planning committee and on the Friends of the Library, Montgomery County Board of Trustees. She is an active member of the Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education.  She holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern Maine and a Master of Library Science from the University of Maryland’s iSchool. She loves learning about, spending time in, and photographing the outdoors.