People

Kim Martinez is the Senior Director for K-12 Education at the National Wildlife Federation located in Reston, Virginia. Her responsibilities include overseeing NWF’s award-winning education programs, including Eco-Schools USA and Schoolyard Habitat. 

Before coming to NWF, Kim was Administrator of Professional Development for programs in the Center for Teacher Innovation at the Riverside County Office of Education in California. Additionally, she was an instructor in the School of Education at the University of California, Riverside. Prior to becoming a program administrator, Kim was a classroom teacher in Menifee, California. Trained and certified in Project WILD®, she was able to integrate environmental education into her daily curriculum to promote responsible stewardship of our natural resources.

Kim graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a BA in Psychology and a California teaching credential. In 2002, she received her Masters of Education Administration from Azusa Pacific University. In addition, Kim holds a Maryland Advanced Professional Certificate for Administrator I and Elementary 1-6. 

Kim lives on the Chesapeake Bay in Edgewater, Maryland and spends her free time kayaking, crabbing, and sailing with her family and two dogs.

I am an elected member of the Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education's Board of Directors. My professional volunteerism in WAEE includes implementing JEDI PD, in person & virtual Fall Conference Committee & Winter Workshop Committee planning, & virtual Awards Committee event leading.

Michael is an emeritus 4-H Youth Development and Master Gardener Advisor with UC Cooperative Extension in Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties. He has over thirty years of experience in the field of non-formal environmental education in national and international settings. He is the Principal Investigator of the Agua Pura and Pescadores watershed, salmon, and steelhead youth education project. Michael holds an M.A. in Education, specializing in non-formal education, from the Center for International Education at the University of Massachusetts. His undergraduate degree is in fine arts, from Humboldt State University, with course work and special projects in environmental planning and design. In recent years he has served various consultancies with ACDI/VOCA in Bolivia and in Serbia. Before he began his work with the University of California, He directed a farmworker service center for eighteen Northern California counties. He served in the Peace Corps in Guatemala as Peace Corps recruiter and trainer and as a non-formal education project leader in Lesotho, Southern Africa. He has served on the board of the NAAEE as Chair of the Nonformal Commission, and more recently as Co-chair of NAAEE’s International Commission. He is fluent in Spanish and he has a working knowledge of Italian.

I am a recent college graduate who is now serving for AmeriCorps in Spokane, WA as an Environmental Education and Outreach Assistant with the Spokane Environmental Services Department.