People

I am an environmental economist and board president of Naturwise Columbus. Naturwise Columbus is a local nonprofit with the vision of nurturing young minds to connect and attune to the natural world around them. Our mission is twofold: providing free and accessible educational resources, while also bringing families closer to local institutions dedicated to the study and preservation of nature. 

I'm from Sanford, North Carolina and currently live and work in Guilford County. I graduated from UNC-Greensboro with my BA and MA in Geography with a concentration in Environmental Studies.

I serve as the Director of the Wilderness Program at St. Mark's School of Texas where we send out students on annual camping trips that are staffed by their teaches and coaches. 

Chair of the Canadian Network for Environmental Education & Communication and SDG lead for Scouts Canada. Curriculum creator, writer, and researcher, advocate for outdoors and climate change education. Previously Swedish/Quebec comparative research, and the Sustainability & Education Policy Network.

Student

Martha started her conservation career in Namibia, where she worked for World Wildlife Fund. Her role was to support tourism business development and bolster communal conservancies in establishing viable joint ventures with private partners. She also supported business enterprise efforts of a nonprofit organization that aims to empower the San people socially and economically in the rural Nyae Nyae Conservancy in northeast Namibia (the first conservancy in the country).

While earning her Masters of Tourism Administration at George Washington University, she worked at the International Institute of Tourism Studies and the Institute of African Studies in program administration. She comes to us from Academic Travel Abroad.  She is passionate about people, environmental conservation, and sustainable development.