Sarah Haggerty
Sarah Haggerty has been an environmental educator and mentor for over a decade. She loves the natural areas of the piedmont and she loves teaching and learning outdoors. Sarah is currently directing the education programs at Piedmont Wildlife Center as well as Red Mountain Nature Programs. Sarah is involved in the Kamana Naturalist training program. She has been studying natural history, herbal medicine, and the flora and fauna of the Piedmont since high school. She has a degree in Environmental Education from Warren Wilson College. She leads and coordinates programs based on the Art of Mentoring techniques taught at Wilderness Awareness School. Before joining Piedmont Wildlife Center, Sarah was the Program Director at Schoolhouse of Wonder where she developed and directed programs focused on teaching natural and cultural history. Sarah has also served as a naturalist, teacher and counselor at Western North Carolina Nature Center, Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve, and Raleigh Nature Programs, among others.
"I like cheese!"
gumby lives for the woods, often found bent over tracks or picking colorful fungi. He has been studying natural history for a number of years independently, as well as through the Kamana Naturalist and Shikari Tracker Training Programs, developing his wilderness skills through courses at Tom Brown's Tracking and Wilderness Survival School, Wilderness Awareness School, Earth School and Earth Heart. gumby is a teacher, a storyteller, and a mentor who practices the art of coyote mentoring. He is a Certified Wilderness First Responder. gumby has taught at Schoolhouse of Wonder and Clapping Hands Farm, and currently teaches and designs programs at Piedmont Wildlife Center. He is now a Lead Teacher at Red Mountain.
Katie Rose Levin
Katie is the one with the Bandana
Katie
Rose Levin first got a taste of environmental education in the Peruvian Amazon, and has been hooked ever since. She updates and maintains the Red Mountain Nature Programs website, teaches at our summer camps and fills in as a teacher in other programs at Red Mountain. She also works as a counselor at Piedmont Wildlife Center and coordinates a volunteer program called The Pantanal Project which
brings college students and indigenous guides together in Southern Brazil. She is a Wilderness First Responder and loves playing in the woods.
Rebecca is a yoga teacher and educator of young people who works to inspire creativity, connection, and imagination. She loves stories, movement, and plants, but nothing gets her more excited than helping young people discover the things that they love. Rebecca graduated from Bastyr University with a degree in Health Psychology and Spirituality. She's worked with young people from around the country at the Puget Sound Community School in Seattle, Grand Valley State University in Michigan, and Omega Teen Camp in New York. Rebecca is a co-coordinator and co-facilitator of Red Mountain's girls council program
Hope Donny Clark is an environmental educator and Wilderness skills teacher. She has two years of experience serving as the Lead Teacher at Schoolhouse of Wonder. She is currently the science teacher at a new independent elementary school that has been created in Alamance County this year. Hope is also the coordinator of a periodical gathering of wilderness skills enthusiasts in Chatham County and she is currently building a wattle and daub/thatch roof hut where she will spend the winter. Hope is a special guest star who is joining us on occasion at Red Mountain to fill in.