Lydia Geschiere, Associate Teacher

Pronouns: she/they

Lydia has designed and taught environmental education and interdisciplinary programs in a variety of capacities, internationally and in the United States. She comes from a background in environmental science, particularly marine ecology, and began her career pursuing opportunities to share with young people the joys of the ocean. These experiences led to a growing interest in how different learners experience the outdoors and develop relationships with the world around them, and a passion for pursuing justice and equity in informal learning spaces.

They brought this interest to the Pacific Northwest to join the IslandWood EEC program and get their master’s in education at the University of Washington, studying transformative science pedagogies. She is particularly interested in the role imagination plays in cultivating relationships and shaping just futures, and is inspired by what we can learn from nature about sustainability and our interconnectivity. Lydia currently coordinates and facilitates teacher education opportunities for Pacific Education Institute, and leads pre-college environmental leadership courses through Brown University.

Lydia teaches Natural History and Ecology in the fall, and is delighted to play a role in developing graduate students’ relationship to this place.