Melissa Church, Staff Instructor

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Melissa grew up in Massachusetts, where coastal explorations and spending summers on an island in New Hampshire, led to her love of digging in the dirt, flipping over logs, and searching the beach for crabs. While spending her college summers at Massachusetts Audubon Society, she discovered her love for environmental education. Since then she has taken that passion and love, to many different places, from the Ponderosa Pine forests of Arizona to the shores of Carkeek park in Seattle. Through her experiences, she has learned that a classroom can exist almost anywhere and really does not need walls, and is always excited to take a new idea and turn it into a lesson that has students interact with the ecosystem around them. In her free time, you can usually find her on a deck of a boat with a good book, or wandering the coastline of Bainbridge Island.