Our Team

OUR TEAM

Kate Bedient, M.Ed., Director of Urban Programs

Kate's formative years were spent on the ancestral land o...

Brad Street, M.Ed., Senior Manager of Professional Development

Brad has a Master’s in Education and has been teaching an...

Celina Steiger, M.A.Ed., Partnerships Manager

Celina is (so far) the only person to have graduated from...

Kate Martin, Urban School and Community Education Coordinator

Kate graduated with a degree Comparative Literature and t...

Kim Zemel, Urban School Registrar and Adiminstrative Coordinator

Kim grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and spent many of her chi...

Louise Prescott, Urban Programs Lead Educator

Louise grew up in San Francisco and spent her formative y...

Karen Andres, Urban School Program Educator

Karen grew up in Germany enjoying nature while hiking, ro...

Dani Heffner, Urban School Program Educator

If you are trying to find Danielle, outside is the place ...

Andrea Hildebrandt, Urban School Program Educator

Andrea grew up in WI surrounded by dairy farms. She spent...

Jonah Miller, Urban School Program Educator

Exploration and adventure are Jonah’s core values and he’...

Kellan Smith, Urban School Program Educator

Kellan grew up in Washington and credits nature walks wit...

Layne Perkins, Instructor

A recent IslandWood graduate, Layne is from Tacoma, Washi...