People

Little Trees Program Supervisor at The Morton Arboretum in Illinois, Founder of Northern Illinois Nature Preschool Association, and Executive Leadership Team member of the Council of Nature and Forest Preschools through Natural Start Alliance.

I am currently pursuing a master's degree in Marine Sciences at the University of Miami graduating in December 2022. My thesis focuses on Culturally Responsive Environmental Education (CREE) research conducted during my time at Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)

I am an environmental educator with a focus on wildlife. I lived abroad in Namibia for the last 3 years. In Namibia I ran the education department for a NGO that focused on saving the wild cheetah. I am interested in predator conservation, human-wildlife conflict mitigation, & backyard habitats.

Lynn is a native Washingtonian, wife, mother of two children. She is of mixed
heritage and the proud descendant of enslaved African American people. She has
been a culturally responsive early childhood educator, teacher trainer, and leader in
the movement of Waldorf Education in Northern America for over thirteen years.
Lynn holds a BA in Fine Arts, and an MAT in Early Childhood Education, and received
her Waldorf Early Childhood Teaching Certificate in 2017. Lynn has been published in
Gateways and has been a workshop presenter and keynote speaker at recent
WECAN conferences. She was the Director and Core Faculty member of the Great
Lakes Waldorf Institute, Early Childhood Training Cohort from 2020-2023. She is
currently a second-year student in the Biography as Social Arts Training and has
served as the WECAN Coordinator of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access.

Hello, my name is Aubrey. I live in La Crosse, Wisconsin and I am a seasonal interpretive ranger for the U.S. Forest Service. My background is in environmental interpretation and visitor services.