Taught the art and skill of expository writing to undergraduates for six terms, classes averaging twenty students. Developed all lesson plans, emphasizing writing as process through daily workshops and discussions.

Environmental Education May 1984-June 1987

Keewaydin Foundation (Salisbury, VT); New York State Department of Environmental Education (Delmar, NY and Saranac Lake, NY); Massachusetts Audubon Society, Drumlin Farm (Lincoln, MA); Zion National Park (Springdale, UT)

Explored the natural with people of all ages; led hikes, canoes trips, and backpacking trips; gave slide presentations and natural history talks; prepared and implemented all lesson plans.

Book publication 1994

Graced by Pines. 117pp. Published by Mountain Press. A collection of essays about the ponderosa pine in the American west.

Freelance articles 1985-present

Published in Conservationist, Ithaca Journal, Vermont Life, High Country News, Falcon, Montana Outdoors, and Initiations (French trans.).

Interpretation

Voices of the Land Trail, The Watershed Center (Bristol, VT) 2000

Concentration in creative non-fiction writing.

Bachelor of Science in Biology graduated with honors 1985

Cornell University Ithaca, NY GPA 3.45

Concentration in Neurobiology and Behavior

Awarded to those University of Montana graduate students in the top five percent in academic performance, research, and creative activities.

Erasmus Scholarship 1988

Awarded to students who show the ability and intention to use their studies to humanize and ennoble their own and others’ life goals.