Christina Woolf, Sr. Naturalist & Community Education Manager

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Christina is passionate about building and sustaining community. At IslandWood, she is known for her joyful and energetic instructional style with her students.  Working with local and regional stakeholders and community partners, she leads with caring candor in all creative pursuits.  According to her co-workers and friends, she has “big Leslie Knope energy.”

As our Senior Naturalist, she strives to facilitate experiences that drive connection between people and place and make natural history accessible, lively and intriguing to all who wish to study it.  As a civic ecologist, she is a student and participant in conservation work, community science projects, and stewardship events.

She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Zoology and has spent over twenty years as an outdoor educator and teaching naturalist in the eastern hardwood forests of New York, the piedmont in South Carolina, coastal Georgia, the saltmarsh and barrier islands in Florida and of course, our mossy temperate rainforest here Washington State.

Christina currently serves as a curator for the Bainbridge Island Biodiversity Project on INaturalist, a wetland monitor for WA Dept. of Fish in Wildlife in amphibian egg mass monitoring, a lead facilitator in FrogWatch USA since 2004, and a Conservation Steward & Wildlife Consultant for the Bainbridge Island Land Trust since 2006. She holds certifications as a Master Birder (Seattle Audubon) since 2011, certified Beach Naturalist (WSU) since 2014, and Certified Interpretative Guide with the National Association of Interpretation since 2015.

In 2023, she will complete her certification as a Washington State Master Naturalist with WSU.

When Christina isn’t teaching on the trails or planning community events, you can find her hiking in the Olympic mountains, running a trivia team, and delighting in being a mom to her three kiddos.