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Coordinates Nebraska Forest Service Conservation Education programs, including the growth and maintenance of Nebraska Project Learning Tree and Nebraska Project WET. Manages a wide network of volunteer facilitators, Leads environmental education programming for adults, youth and family audiences.

Hello! I am an environmental biologist from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and a great enthusiast of environmental education. My experiences are more in the non-formal field and I joined this network to share more ideas and opinions.

Jenna Cobb (she/her) is passionate about facilitating spaces to cultivate relationship with nature and engaging youth in academic, advocacy, and faith-based settings to seek community transformation together. She is currently located on unceded Tongva land in the San Gabriel Valley of Southern California in the United States. As a Program Manager at Active San Gabriel Valley and a former youth pastor, Jenna is excited about incorporating spirituality, Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and civics in environmental education and climate resilience efforts.

Rachel Tidd is the author of the Wild Math and Reading Curriculums and the forthcoming book Wild Learning: Practical Ideas for Bringing Teaching Outdoors. She is passionate about integrating the outdoors and natural materials in core academic areas such as reading and math.

Sara B Sweetman, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Education in the College of Education and Professional Studies at the University of Rhode Island (URI) and directs the Guiding Education in Math and Science Network (GEMS-Net), a school-university partnership focused continual improvement in STEM teaching and learning. Beginning in the Fall of 2024, Sara will lead the new Environmental Education degree program at URI. Sara is an advisor for children’s media development and productions, including the CBP-PBS Ready to Learn Initiative and Sesame Street. Sara’s research interests focus on educational animation and children's media, gender diverse collaboration in STEM, and multimodal engagement for learning.

Former Park Interpreter and Classroom Science and English Teacher. Also LLC: Shortleaf Interpretive Services with a focus on Interpretive Planning and Resource Interpretive presentations and preformances.

I am an enviromental education/arts integration teacher at Watershed Public Charter School in Baltimore County, MD.