People

Jimena Cuenca supports NAAEE's digital presence, helping maintain and improve our websites like eePRO so that it serves as a welcoming and useful space for environmental educators. Jimena brings a deep curiosity about how online communities grow, connect, and collaborate. She enjoys learning new digital tools and is always looking to make our web spaces more engaging. When not at work, she's walking her huskies and birding.

Anne Umali has been working in the environmental education field since 2000 and has built a strong passion for teaching and training others, especially when it comes to leadership training, community engagement, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Anne's connection to NAAEE goes back to 2013 when she was the project manager for the U.S. EPA’s National Environmental Education & Training Program (EECapacity, then ee360, then later ee360+). Today she's the Director of Leadership, Conservation, and International Programs at NAAEE. 

CTE Teacher at Tanapag Middle School for 23 years, planning to open a club focusing on Environmental Education and Conservation

I am the outdoor learning coach at an independent pre-K- 12th grade school. 

Bora Simmons serves as the founding director of the National Project for Excellence in Environmental Education. The North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) initiated the Project in 1993 to help educators develop and deliver effective environmental education programs. The Project has drawn on the insights of literally thousands of educators across the United States and around the world to craft guidelines for top-quality environmental education.

I have been teaching biology, Honors Biology, Anatomy and Physiology, and AP Biology for 20 years at Three Rivers High School in Three Rivers, MI. I love teaching outdoors when possible and hope to instill a love of the outdoors in my students. I enjoy incorporating place-based education activities into my curriculum and find that students get very invested in these activities. 

I'm a former public aquarium professional now teaching STEAM topics at a charter school in NJ.  I focus on environmental science education as well as engineering.