People

Carla Gull is the coordinator of the masters of art of environmental education program and associate professor at Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College in northern Indiana. She has over 20 years of experience in the education field at the preschool, elementary, and college levels. Dr. Gull enjoys helping educators incorporate more nature in the everyday early childhood setting. She hosts a podcast, Loose Parts Nature Play; facilitates an international group, Loose Parts Play; and presents workshops, presentations, and academic research around loose parts, tree climbing, STEM outdoor classrooms, and nature education. She is coauthor of the book, Loose Parts Learning in K-3 Classrooms. 

I develop educational programming that brings environmental monitoring programs to local communities. Science education allows me to embrace a role that combines making environmental education accessible and connecting educaiton to relevant ecological research efforts. I have had many different roles as before becoming an environmental educator including being a collections assistant for a natural history museum and a field assistant to ornithology researchers.

I am an educator and an advocate for public-involvement and community science, working at the intersection of people, nature, climate, and science. I am the PI on the MacroBlitz project, leading a team of National Geographic explorers to empower educators from the Canadian forests to Chilean Patagonia to teach how to survey aquatic macroinvertebrates using iNaturalist as a data platform. My scope of work includes professional and curriculum development on water, soil, and grasslands. I facilitate and advocate for braiding Indigenous ways of knowing and Western STEM in my work.

After visiting the Mexican overwintering colonies with Dr. Bill Calvert in March 2003, Susan began volunteering with Monarchs Across Georgia (MAG), a committee of the Environmental Education Alliance. She facilitates educator workshops using the Monarchs & More curriculum and incorporates the citizen science projects of MLMP, Journey North tracking, Monarch Watch tagging and Waystations, and Project Monarch Health. She administered MAG's Pollinator Habitat Restoration Grants (2012-2020) through FWS' Partners in Fish & Wildlife Program. She was honored with a Conservation Partner Award for her work with monarchs at the 2015-16 Southeast Regional Director's Honor Awards Ceremony. Organizing trips to the Mexican overwintering colonies since 2004, she initiated the Mexico Book Project, bringing books written in Spanish to schools near the sanctuaries. In 2018, Susan agreed to coordinate the Symbolic Monarch Migration, a project created by Journey North in 1996. Susan received her BS in Microbiology and MS in Environmental Science from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, and Florida Institute of Technology respectively. She retired as an instructor from Stone Mountain Memorial Association where she taught K-12 students a variety of science-based lessons from geology to life cycles. Susan is also a Georgia Master Gardener and Master Naturalist, and a certified Pollinator Steward with the Pollinator Partnership.

I am the Executive Director for the Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education and the Green and Healthy Schools Wisconsin Coordinator for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Sustainable Schools, accessible green career pathways, and environmental equity are my main motivators.

As the Associate Director of Conservation Education at The Marine Mammal Center, an educational center and the world’s largest marine mammal hospital, Adam challenges the community to think differently about ocean conservation using the stories of individual patients that are rescued by the Center.

I am the Adopt-A-Stream Director for the state of Mississippi. I am also the Chairman for the MS Environmental Education Alliance (MEEA)

My name is John Lachendro, but I prefer to be called Jack. I am a young professional in the environmental education field working at Point State Park in downtown Pittsburgh as the environmental education specialist. 

Life-long Pittsburgher, 10+ years environmental educator, urban parks enthusiast

I’m a Guatemalan environmental activist with a great passion for marine life conservation and sustainability. I’m a senior student of Environmental Engineer at Universidad Rafael Landívar, where I was the vice-president of the students’ association of my faculty for two years, and I work as a teacher.

I've been involved in the planification and implementation of environmental education and volunteer programs for children and youth in my country. The programs have focused on solid waste management, biodiversity, and understanding Ocean Literacy Principles to acknowledge and analyze the relationship between the ocean and climate. I've worked with coastal communities, educational centers, international and local organizations, and I'm currently the Environmental Education and Communications Coordinator in SOA (Sustainable Ocean Alliance) Guatemala.