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Josh’s project will be an interactive webinar series focused on greening STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). The environment is a compelling context for teaching STEM as it provides teachers with a diverse range of real-world challenges that engage students in hands-on opportunities to apply and reinforce STEM concepts across multiple subject areas. Each broadcast in this series will be interactive, engaging, target both formal and informal educators, and will include a downloadable resource.

Josh Falk joined NEEF in December of 2014. Prior to that, he worked for two years as Director of Education at the Annapolis Maritime Museum, running a regional educational program. Previously, Josh worked as an educator at The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, coordinating both high school research projects and an international citizen science project focused on climate change. Josh also spent four years living on and running a residential environmental education program for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation on Smith Island, the only offshore-inhabited island in Maryland. Josh holds a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Drew University. When not at NEEF, you can find Josh in his canoe with his sons, Finn and Jackson, and his wife, Hilary.

Traci Price consults with the Center for Diversity & the Environment (CDE) and has worked in the environmental non-profit sector for most of her career with a focus on education and youth. She spearheaded the No Oregon Child Left Inside Act in 2008, built a statewide coalition over 100,000 Oregonians strong, and was appointed by Governor Kulongoski to lead the development of the Oregon Environmental Literacy Plan in 2010. She worked for the Gray Family Foundation to implement the Plan with partners across Oregon to ensure that all students have the opportunity to participate in regular outdoor activity, examine complex community issues from multiple perspectives, and be prepared to address the challenges our future holds.

Traci has been an independent consultant since 2012, continuing to advance environmental and educational initiatives with a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion largely in association with the Center for Diversity & the Environment, North American Association for Environmental Education, Environmental Education Association of Oregon, Multicultural Collaborative, and Showing Up for Racial Justice. She prioritizes projects at the intersection of education, environment, and racial justice, and encourages intentional relationship building across difference because she believes that we have a lot to learn from each other and only by working together, honoring all members of our community as equitable assets, will we stand the chance to make a difference, to change. She is a nature lover, relationship builder, and advocate for systems change.