People

Mark owns Medicine Bow Wilderness School in the Southern Appalachians, he teaches nature classes and survival skills of the Cherokees. Mark has been teaching environmental education for almost 50 years. In 1980 the National Wildlife Federation named him Georgia’s Conservation Educator of the Year.

I'm a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Saskatchewan, exploring physical literacy as taken up through Indigenous games. In 2019, I obtained a Ph.D. through Deakin University, Australia, which took up posthumanism to (re)story human/Earth relationships for/in these Anthropocene times.

I am the Senior Volunteering and Communities Officer for National Trust South Down, I have 10 years experience managing community and environmental grants through my role at Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful. In my spare time I enjoy foraging and making tasty jams & chutneys from the hedgerow treats!

We are very fortunate to have somehow chosen to be a part of the greater education profession. Long ago while growing up in South Dakota on the cliffs of the Missouri River my grandparents were models of my becoming. For the past 50 years I have been sharing his love of nature with others.