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Kate graduated with a degree Comparative Literature and then went directly into the woods and the wonderful world of environmental education. She has experience in residential camps, in international environmental education, and as a middle school science teacher for students learning English. She holds a Master’s in Teaching from Lewis and Clark College, and has both participated in and led trainings in outdoor science practices, SEL, and science for multilingual students. She is thrilled to be at a job that allows her to teach about wastewater, stream health, freshwater macroinvertebrates and occasionally to catch snakes. Off the clock, Kate loves everything outdoors and is working hard to replace her lawn with the native plants of the Pacific Northwest.
IslandWood acknowledges that the land on which we gather is within the ancestral territory of the suqʷabš “People of Clear Salt Walter” (Suquamish People). Expert fisherman, canoe builders and basket weavers, the suqʷabš live in harmony with the lands and waterways along Washington’s Central Salish Sea as they have for thousands of years. Here, the suqʷabš live and protect the land and waters of their ancestors for future generations as promised by the Point Elliot Treaty of 1855. While the majority of our work takes place on Suquamish and Duwamish (dxʷdɐwʔabʃ) land, we also conduct programs on the land of the Snohomish (sduhúbʃ), Puyallup (spuyaləpabš), Muckleshoot (buklshuhls), Skokomish (sqoqc’bes), and S’Klallam (nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əm) peoples.
IslandWood is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Our tax ID number is 31-1654076.
4450 Blakely Ave. NE, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 206.855.4300