Summit on Nature for an Urban World - Field Trip [
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Field Trip: Green School Grounds in Metro Vancouver
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Executive Director, Programs, Evergreen
Cam is the Executive Director, Programs at Evergreen, overseeing and developing Evergreen’s evolving national suite of programs that connect Canadians with nature. This includes the award-winning national school ground greening program—
Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds—as well as Evergreen’s programs that engage Canadians in restoring health to public lands and communities. He has overseen the establishment of a national network of school ground design professionals, the creation of a large suite of print and web-based publications, the esta...
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Field Trip: Modern Playgrounds in Natural Settings: A Gateway to Engaging Children with the Natural World
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Co-ordinator / Executive Director, Outdoor Play Canada / KidActive
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Regional Sales Manager, Landscape Structures
Senior Vice President, Cities and Community Engage, Children & Nature Network
Monica Lopez Magee Helps city and community leaders develop programs, policies, and partnerships to provide children and families access to nature and its many health and academic benefits. She draws upon her master’s degree in Public Leadership from the LBJ School of Public Affairs...
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Principal, Habitat Systems
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Field Trip: Nature Connection through Outdoor Learning Gardens for All: Diversity and Inclusion
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Associate Professor, Dept. of Curriculum & Pedagogy, UBC
I bring experience in a number of fields to an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to environmental education, curriculum theory and mathematics education. My embodied, arts-based approach to mathematics and environmental education is informed by my background in linguistics and...
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Postdoctoral Scholar and Faculty, Prescott College and Institute for Earth Regenerative Studies
Dr. Marna Hauk is a permaculturist and regenerative designer catalyzing outdoor experiential engagement through sustainability education and the arts for more than three decades. She has worked with gifted learners in nature poem-making, modeling ecotopian communities out of recycled...
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Faculty, Portland State University Indigenous Nations Studies
Judy has worked with federal, state and local Native organizations and tribes throughout the Northwest for more than 20 years, creating cultural activities focusing on traditional and contemporary uses of native plants for food, medicine, ceremony, and healthy lifeways. She is a...
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Professor, Portland State University
Dr. Dilafruz Williams is Professor and cofounder of Leadership for Sustainability Education, a Master’s program and Learning Gardens Laboratory with dozens of partnerships. Dilafruz is passionate about gardening and connecting schools, students, teachers, and parents with soil...
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