Our Staff and Board Biographies
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Administrative Staff
Warren
Moon is the current Executive Director of Wilderness Awareness School and a member of the Board of Trustees. He began working with Wilderness Awareness School in 1995 as Youth Programs Director. He has since served as an instructor and administrator for all aspects of Wilderness Awareness School's programs until becoming Executive Director in 2001. Warren has a BS in Mechanical Engineering, and worked as an environmental engineer until he discovered that nature and mentoring were his true passions. His vision is to help restore people's reverence for life so that we can be better stewards of ourselves, our communities and our planet.
Warren and his wife M'liss have two daughters Kylah (8) and Cassidy (5), whose favorite day of the week is when they are in program at Wilderness Awareness School. Warren loves gardening, sports, playing guitar and enjoying the beauty of the Snoqualmie valley with his family and his dog, Sadie. Contact Warren
John
Chilkotowsky is the Associate Director of Wilderness Awareness School, as well as the Marketing and Program Director. He has been with the school since 2000. He is in awe
of the natural world and sees hope for the future in every child. John
has experience as an environmental educator, public school teacher and
business consultant and is a graduate of the Kamana
Naturalist Training Program. He and his wife Troye live in the Snoqualmie
Valley with their daughters Maya and Elena. He loves playing harmonica
and dancing with his family. Contact
John
Kylie
Loynd is the Development Director, Retail Sales Manager,
and Foxprint newsletter Editor. She has been connected to Wilderness
Awareness School since 2005 as a volunteer and as parent to two daughters
who attend year-round classes. But the seeds of community were planted
long before that, by Elder Walt Hoesel, who provided a steady stream
of encouragement: “You know, the girls would love…”
Bless the vision of our Elders! Kylie has a B.A. in Marketing and Human
Resource Management, twenty years of experience in sales and marketing,
and created and published the nonprofit, independent magazine, The
Polishing Stone as founder and Executive Director of Polishing
Stone Foundation. Her journey towards sustainable living and deeper
connection with the earth began with motherhood, and she is passionate
about the simple, everyday ways we can make a difference in the world.
Her daughters Niya and Keenan are the treasures of her life —
clear guides to joy. Kylie loves writing, reading books and watching
movies that open her heart, dancing, singing, being anywhere near the
ocean, and the sound, sight and feel of rainstorms. Contact
Kylie
Erin
Brookshire is our Administrative Director and the Youth Programs Operations Coordinator. She and her husband Rob have enjoyed 19 years together and have a 16-year-old daughter named Jesika. Together they chase around their dog, Lloyd and cats, Moose & Caribou. Erin’s mom, Cheyenne is her biggest inspiration and her true idol. She is most at home standing beside the ocean with sand between her toes…preferably in Ocean Shores. She has a mild obsession with Peter Pan…and has been dubbed by some to be the “Wendy” of our office…mothering us on a daily basis. She and Jesika are participating in the Susan G Komen 3-Day Breast Cancer walk for the first time. Walking 60 miles in only 3 days! She’s believes passionately in the benefits that Wilderness Awareness School provides to our students…and feels extremely blessed to be a part of the WAS family. Outside of work you can find her having movie nights with friends and family, indulging in her passion of photography, traveling or hiking with Rob around the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Contact
Erin
Linda
Bittle is a 2007 graduate of the Anake Outdoor School and a 2009 graduate of the advanced path in the Tracking Intensive. She’s the Business Manager and also acts as a School Certifying Official for processing veteran’s paperwork for those who use their GI Bill benefits to attend the Anake or Anake Leadership programs. Her 25 years experience as nurse's aide, storeroom clerk and Purchasing Assistant at a rural Missouri hospital help her in those roles. A long-time hunter, Linda also enjoys shooting skeet, tracking animals, outdoor photography and helping other women get involved in the outdoors. She likes studying ethnobotany because it combines her love of history and of crafts. She makes tinctures, salves, baskets and cordage from local plants, and intends to finish her Kamana…someday. She scored a level 2 certification in Track and Sign through CyberTracker Conservation, and sometimes acts as a station guide at tracking club. Her domestic dog tracking project continues to be an interesting diversion. Living in Washington suites Linda, as she likes seeing mountains in the distance and even enjoys the rain...it's a good excuse to watch a movie or curl up with a book and a cup of tea. She shares her Duvall apartment with Clara, a former Missouri stray cat. Contact
Linda
Jan Bosman came to Wilderness Awareness School in the summer of 2000 at an overnight Summer Camp, and later joined us on several Teen Idaho Wolf Tracking Expeditions. He is a graduate of the Anake Outdoor School and the Anake Leadership Program. While he has had countless adventures outdoors, he also dwells in the world of technology. Having taught himself how to create web sites at the age of ten, after a decade and a half, his hobby has become his career. He now works at Wilderness Awareness School as a Web Designer doing outreach and making pretty things (see NatureSkills.com and Kamana.org). He enjoys storytelling and mythology, shooting his longbow, and cracking jokes at the closest person in the office. Contact Jan
Isadora Eads was born and raised in Hawaii on the side of a mountain where she could see all the way to the ocean. She followed her itchy feet for several years until they were magically transformed into roots in western WA by the sudden onset of motherhood in 1998. She has been a member of the parent community and a volunteer with WAS since 2004, a student of the Anake Outdoor School (class of 2009), ALP graduate (class of 2010) and lead instructor with summer programs, various outreach programs and the youth mentor naturalist training program since 2009. But perhaps her greatest achievement was vacuuming the office once for the first time in who knows how long. She lives with her two children, Sam and Addy who are a constant source of inspiration, learning and hilarity, and enjoys music, sitting around fires in the dark listening to stories, ninjas, daydreaming and just about anything ridiculous. She feels truly alive when using her super powers for good, singing, and being on or in almost any natural body of water. If she had three wishes she would wish to turn into a bird, go to Africa and work at WAS but not necessarily in that order. Contact Isadora
Anake Outdoor School Staff
Chris
Laliberte, B.A., M.S, M.A., is the Director of Anake Training Programs at Wilderness Awareness School (Anake Outdoor School and Anake Leadership Program). Chris graduated Dartmouth College in 1992 with a degree in Anthropology, and immediately started working in the field of outdoor education, helping to create programs that incorporated wilderness adventure with cross-cultural experiences. Before joining Wilderness Awareness School in 1996, he worked as an interpretive naturalist and wilderness expedition leader for youth. In 1996 he received a Master's Degree in Education from the Audubon Expedition Institute (AEI), and in 2008 received a Master's Degree in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Chris founded the Community School at Wilderness Awareness School in 1996, and has been working with Anake Outdoor School since 2005. His passions (aside from exploring the natural world) include his two sons Phoenix and Griffin, strategy games, mythology and storytelling, Baguazhang and other internal martial arts, and singing and playing traditional and folk music on the guitar, mandolin, and bouzouki. Contact Chris
Marcus
Reynerson serves as the Coordinator and Lead Instructor at the Anake Outdoor School as well as an instructor for the Wildlife Tracking Intensive. He has lived close to the natural world throughout his life and some of his earliest memories include hunting and fishing in the muggy marshes and pine forests of south Louisiana. Thanks to a childhood of outdoor recreation, Marcus got an early start working in the environmental education field. After leading youth on backpacking trips during college, and completing a semester with the National Outdoor Leadership School, he earned a degree in Environmental Studies from Miami University in Oxford, OH in 2002.
Marcus went on to serve as a conservation programs director for Philmont Scout Ranch in Northern New Mexico and then as a lead naturalist at an outdoor education center in Southern California. He was drawn to Washington from Louisville, KY, to attend the Anake Outdoor School in 2005 and followed up with a second year as an apprentice with the that program before coming on as an instructor in the fall of 2007. Marcus is certified as a Track and Sign Specialist through the internationally recognized Cyber Tracker Conservation evaluation process and is a Wilderness First Responder. In addition to immersion in nature, Marcus enjoys backpacking, storytelling, fishing, playing music and singing, and any time spent near the ocean. Contact Marcus
Laura Gunion is the Director of Mentoring and Instructor at Anake Outdoor School, and Anake Leadership Program. She began her work for Wilderness Awareness School after attending our Anake Outdoor School 2001-02. After 16 years and many summers of working with children and teens, Laura is transitioning her focus to work with adults. She is currently enrolled in a training program at Animas Valley Institute that supports her explorations at WAS of how time in the natural world helps evoke our fullest potential. In her spare time, Laura enjoys sitting by the creek, sharing delicious meals with friends, wandering forest trails, contemplating untapped human potential, telemark skiing, and exploring the indefinite opportunities of simplifying and slowing down. Contact
Laura
Mike
Prince serves as a core instructor of Anake Outdoor School and Lead Instructor of Community School. Mike also coordinates the Wild Within Teen weekend program. Mike previously served as Land Manager for Linne Doran for 5 years and is a dedicated keeper of the center fire. As a Delaware native, Mike spent many years exploring the wilds of the Chesapeake Bay region and Mid-Atlantic coast. He earned a BA from University of Rochester in upstate NY. After teaching High School, directing a Boy Scout Camp, and directing at a YMCA Camp & Conference Center, Mike followed coyote west to join the Anake Outdoor School in 2004. Mike is passionate about the art of mentoring and dreams of creating a Wilderness Awareness Academy for teens that would blend nature and modern academic skills. Mike loves tracking, swimming, sailing, real pizza, scouting, Inipi, football, live music, stock investing and ice cream. Contact Mike
Lindsay
Huettman loves being a part of the Wilderness Awareness
School team in her roles as Outreach Coordinator and Anake Outdoor
School Instructor. Her primary passion is connecting humans to wilderness
through the use of native plants. This inspired her to complete a degree
at WWU in Ethnobotany
Stewardship Education. This can include anything from eating Hemlock
cambium and discussing its nutritional benefits, to making baskets out
of Cedar roots and dying them with lichens! Other passions include leading
wilderness survival, whitewater rafting and kayaking expeditions; writing
and playing music, and creating dynamic environmental education curriculum
for K-12. She has a background in organic farming, landscaping, horse
packing & training, homeschool support and is an avid plant dork
when it comes to biochemistry. Most of all she loves to sit in the woods
and watch the leaves uncurl each spring. Contact
Lindsay
Nate
Summers coordinates the Anake
Leadership Program, and serves as a staff specialist for the Anake
Outdoor School. He has been mentoring adults and youth in the outdoors
since 1995. Nate's journey with ancient living skills started as a teenager
at the Ancient Lifeways Institute in Southern Illinois. This exposure
to stone age living at a young age sparked a life-long interest in anthropology,
hunter-gatherer lifestyles, and indigenous cultures. In the past, Nate
has served as both Youth Programs Director and Adult Programs Director
for Wilderness Awareness School, and has worked with such organizations
as King County Parks and Recreation, Seattle Parks Department, and Outdoor
Connections/WildLore.
Nate is an internal martial arts enthusiast, a practitioner of Chinese Medicine, and a the proud father of his pre-school age daughter Katie. He holds a Master's of Acupuncture degree from the Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, as well as Bachelors of Arts Degrees in both Anthropology and Asian Studies from the University of Illinois. He has also served as faculty for the Desert Insitute of Healing Arts, the Asian Institute of Medical Studies, Earthwalk School of Energy Healing, and as adjunct faculty for Prescott College. Nate likes to fish, practice internal martial arts, go on Daddy-adventures with his daughter, and gather wild foods to supplement his diet. Contact Nate
Youth Programs Staff:
Emily
Gibson serves as Summer Programs Director and Anake Outreach Specialist. Emily
has spent her life among the cedar trees and winter wrens of Western
Washington, where her inner compass is set to orient by the Cascade
Mountains to the East and Puget Sound to the West. She loves good literature,
music, faraway cities, adventures, mischief, stinging nettle soup, big
mud puddles, her daughter, and too many other things to list. Before
coming to Wilderness Awareness School, Emily studied Wildlife Science
at the University of Washington. She spent two years as a research assistant
studying the effects of urbanization on songbird populations in the
Puget Sound region.
After graduating from the Anake Outdoor School in 2005, Emily participated in the Instructor Training Apprenticeship and was an Apprentice Instructor with the Residential Program. She has also continued her study of tracking through two years of Wilderness Awareness School’s Wildlife Tracking Intensive. She is a team leader for the Cascade Wildlife Monitoring Project, and is certified as a Level II Track and Sign Specialist with CyberTracker International. Contact Emily
Sol
Marie Doran is a Lead Instructor at the Thursday Coyotes (ages 10-12) and Friday Roots and Wings (ages 4-6) programs. In the summer, she also teaches at various teen and adult programs, including the Art of Mentoring. She has been working with children since 1997 and has been mentoring with the Wilderness Awareness School methodology since 2002.
She came to Wilderness Awareness School in 2004 from southern California, where she worked with Wilderness Youth Project, ran an early childhood outdoor program, and earned a B.S. in Ecology. She is finishing her last Kamana field pack (naturalist studies), is a 2-time Tracking Intensive graduate, has trained in herbalism at Ravencroft, and has studied since 2008 with Kim Scanlon on various arts, including modern cultural development, leadership, and emotions. Her personal interests also include yoga and ethnic dance. She is currently a graduate student in Clinical Somatic Psychology. Contact Sol
Andy Franjevic is our Facilities Manager and an instructor with the Youth School Foxes and Monthly Programs. He grew up in Ohio, where he spent his summer weekends at his grandparent's cabin by the lake. He caught frogs and turtles with his brother and sisters and went fishing with his grandpa. Later, he worked at a state park in Ohio for a couple of years as the Park Naturalist, where he was able to share his passion for nature with visitors and explore the park day and night. In 2004, Andy moved to Washington to attend Wilderness Awareness School's Anake Outdoor School. Since then he has completed his Bachelor's degree at the Evergreen State College with a project of exploring history and researching his ancestors. Contact Andy
Richie Booth is an Instructor for the Thursday Coyotes (ages 10-12) and Friday Roots and Wings (ages 4-6) programs. He was born and raised in Yelm, WA. Spending his summers camping on the Deschutes River in Weyerhauser with his dad he developed a deep love for the forest. Working with youth at Camp Cispus during high school and college he realized his passion for working with kids. He has dedicated his life to reconnecting with nature through the practice of primitive skills, and helping both kids and adults to find their passions by sharing his with them. Contact Richie
Natalie Rivera-Esperance is an Instructor for Youth School Foxes and Monthly Programs. To compliment her love of people and nature, she earned a degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz in cultural anthropology and environmental studies. Before graduating, she knew her life's plan: to help people, especially children, fall in love with nature. Over the last six years this goal has led her to work with adults and children at several state parks and outdoor schools. Always craving more knowledge and deeper understandings, she studied permaculture and cultural mentoring at the Regenerative Design and Nature Awareness nine month intensive program. She is also a graduate of the Anake Outdoor School and Anake Leadership Program. Contact Natalie
Merilee Wilmore is an Outreach Assistant and Community School Instructor, as well as a graduate of the Anake Outdoor School. She also spent a year as an Apprentice Instructor for the program through the Anake Leadership Program.
While Merilee has a background in counseling and special education, she feels most alive and at home teaching in the woods and along the beaches of the Northwest.
She is passionate about continually deepening her knowledge and connection to the natural world, through wondering, bird watching, animal tracking, harvesting wild foods and preparing herbal remedies. Contact Merilee
Adult Programs Staff
Dan
Corcoran is the Adult Programs Director and Coordinator of the Kamana Naturalist Training
Program, and an instructor with our Youth Programs and Adult Programs
as well. After receiving his B.S. in Biology from Indiana University in
June of 2000, Dan moved to the Pacific Northwest to pursue his love of
nature with Wilderness Awareness School. He graduated from the Anake Outdoor
School in 2003. As a Kamana graduate, he aspires to inspire more people
to finish the program. He continues to push his edges with attempts to
touch a deer, flintknap a clovis point, and hear a cougar bird-alarm sequence.
Dan is also a Wilderness First Responder. Contact
Dan
David
Moskowitz is our Wildlife Tracking Programs Coordinator and a project manager for the Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project. He joined Wilderness Awareness School in 2005, bringing with him over a decade of experience teaching outdoor and environmental education throughout the United States including at Outward Bound and the North Cascades Institute. He is the author of the book Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest.
David is a skilled field researcher and has been involved with forest carnivore research and wildlife monitoring in the Cascades for many years as well as avian research in the Puget Sound area. He holds a bachelors degree in Environmental Studies through Prescott College with an emphasis on Field Ecology and Wildlife Tracking. David is an active member of the International Society of Professional Trackers and has given many talks and presentations on wildlife and tracking based on his years of field work and teaching. He holds professional certifications in wildlife tracking, wilderness medicine, and avalanche safety. Besides his book, David’s writings and photography on wilderness skills, environmental education, natural history and tracking have appeared in numerous regional and national publications.
Along with tracking wild animals, mountaineering, environmental activism and photography are several of his passions. He is currently working on a second book and conservation project on Wolves in the Pacific Northwest. Contact
David
Alexia
Allen has been writing Kamana responses for eleven years. She is a former Anake
Outdoor School instructor, Anake Class of 2002 graduate, and a graduate of the Kamana Naturalist Training Program. Alexia also serves as a staff specialist for Wilderness Awareness School's adult programs, especially around the bird curriculum of the school. Her small farm is part of an effort to reclaim suburbia. In her spare time she rides horses, spins yarn, plays the accordion, and cooks for people she loves. She continues to go to her sit spot. Contact
Alexia
Kat Koch began her journey at Wilderness Awareness School as a student, first in the Anake Outdoor School (2004-2005) and then as a 2nd year student in the Anake Leadership Program (2005-2006). She is a 1st year graduate of the Tracking Apprenticeship and a current Kamana student. She has worked for the school as a Summer Camp Instructor, Director, and Youth Programs Instructor. As in many non-profits, she wore many hats: Kamana Responder, Retail Sales Manager, Front Desk Associate, and Singer of Jazz. In 2008, Kat left the school to travel to Europe and has returned every summer for personal enjoyment and also to help facilitate International Art of Mentorings with Jon Young & Mark Morey. She is now a yoga teacher and content creator for Kamana.org. Life is good. Contact
Kat
Cyndi O'Brien is a Kamana Instructor, a former Youth School Instructor, as well as Coordinator for Volunteers and Roots & Wings. She is from sunny California where she worked as a naturalist for various outdoor schools and parks before and after attending the Anake Outdoor School in 2002. Cyndi has a B.F.A. specializing in ceramics and crafts from California State University in Fullerton. In her spare time, Cyndi enjoys playing the fiddle, permaculture, singing songs, and exploring the natural world. Contact Cyndi
Ellen
Haas is co-author and an outreach specialist for our
book Coyote's Guide to Connecting with
Nature: For Kids of all Ages and their Mentors. Retired from
a 20-year career teaching English, Ellen contributed to many of Wilderness
Awareness School’s initial projects in Washington -- including
its first long-range plan and program catalog, early editions of Kamana,
and the Seeing Through Native Eyes and The Art of Mentoring audio recordings.
She loves simply being outdoors; watching her son develop a business;
and her grandchildren, dog, and garden grow. Contact
Ellen
Founder & Guest Staff:
Jon
Young. Inspired by his childhood mentoring with tracker
and author Tom Brown, Jr., Jon has pioneered blending Native mentoring
techniques from around the world with the tools of modern field ecology.
Under Jon's guidance, Wilderness Awareness School, which was originally
founded as a high school nature club, has grown to reach students all
around the world with its programs that help people reconnect with their
native environments.
Jon is co-author with Ellen Haas and Evan McGown of Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature - for Kids of All Ages and Their Mentors, a book about our curriculum. He has created several popular audio training series which can be purchased through the products section of this website, and he is the principal author of The Kamana Naturalist Training Program and Animal Tracking Basics. Jon is also the director and founder of OWLink Media and the Shikari Tracking Guild, and serves as a guest expert instructor for the Anake Outdoor School and certain other Wilderness Awareness School programs. Contact Jon
Board of Trustees:
Annie Thoe (President) As a body worker for over twenty-five years, Annie integrates her nature studies into her Feldenkrais practice for adults and children in Woodinville, Seattle and Whidbey Island, where she teaches and mentors practitioners in Awareness through Movement® and Functional Integration®.
Annie started her tracking and wilderness survival training with Tom Brown in 1993-95, and then found Kamana and Bird Language courses at the Wilderness Awareness School in 2002. Annie joined the Board in 2005, with a passion for fundraising and love for the Wilderness Awareness School staff and teachings. After completing a Walkabout, the Tracking Intensive and the Anake Program, she continues her training with Kamana Three.
Annie shares that, "The Coyote Mentoring style of teaching of this school changed my life. Practicing nature awareness gives me vision of our gifts and responsibilities as humans to the earth and all our relations. The birds, along with my community, remind me how to keep an upright mind."
Tony Laliberte (Treasurer) is retired from Ernst & Young where he was a member of the Management Committee and Firm Vice-Chairman. During the course of his career at Ernst & Young, Tony was: responsible the Firm's National Audit Practice and its National Planning and Research and Development functions; managed its Northern California and Seattle Offices; and coordinated all services provided to clients such as Apple Computers, Genentech, Intel and Sun Microsystems.
Tony currently serves on the Advisory Board for the University of Washington's Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, is a member of the Social Venture Partners Board of Directors, and is Treasurer for the Board of Trustees of Wilderness Awareness School.
At the University of Washington, Foster School of Business, Tony has served on the Advisory Board and taught graduate level International Accounting. He is a past Member Of Council of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a past President of the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Tony is an attorney, having earned a JD from The University of Chicago, and a BA in English Literature from Saint Mary's College in California.
Tony's support of Wilderness Awareness School is inspired by their ability to impact a larger audience and connect greater numbers of children with nature. Tony and his wife, Margaret, live in Clyde Hill, Washington, and have two grown sons and four grandchildren.
Darrell Johnson (Secretary) joined the Board of Trustees of Wilderness Awareness School in early 2011. He is a native of Montana, and has lived in many other places. Darrell graduated with a BA in Political Science from the University of Montana, and an MBA in International Business from the Thunderbird Graduate School of International Business. He's a CPA, CFA, and a retired financial manager with a large international company.
Darrell is a former member, and Assistant Treasurer, of the Board of Governors of the Taipei British School. He's active with the Sierra Club, and was a member of the Host Committee for the Seattle Green Festival.
Darrell is the father of three: Elizabeth, Michelle and Stephen. His son has been a participant of the Community School program for three years, and also of Wild Within.
Chuck Newquist has been involved with Wilderness Awareness School since the mid 1990s, as a parent, student, volunteer and board member. His son Erik graduated from our Community School program in 2001, and Chuck was deeply inspired by seeing Erik appreciate and benefit from his Wilderness Awareness School experience. Chuck works as an engineer at Boeing, as a member of their Technical Fellowship program.
Chuck has a PhD in Ceramic Engineering from the University of Washington and has been an adjunct professor for Central Washington University. He is currently developing Sunbreak Solar, a small business dedicated to making renewable energy a part of everyday life.
As a boy, Chuck spent summers exploring the forests around Mount Baker, where his father worked the summer months for the Forest Service. Chuck believes that all children and adults need time in nature, and supports the Wilderness Awareness School mission of fostering connections with the natural world.
Andy Held left a 20-year career in the high-tech industry in 1999 to start his own business, have more time in the natural world, and do more in his community. Andy has used the ensuing decade to serve on the boards of several environmental nonprofits, to attend and to volunteer at Wilderness Awareness School programs, and to have amazing adventures on rivers and in the woods.
In 2010, Andy joined the Board of Trustees of Wilderness Awareness School. He is dedicated to helping children to fulfill their potential, and believes that one of the greatest gifts a child can receive is a deep connection with the natural world. Andy and his wife have two daughters. They live in Kirkland, Washington.
Chris Springate is a seasoned preclinical and early-clinical stage biopharmaceutical company leader with over 17 years of experience in the research and development of drugs, medical devices and combination products. Chris is the CEO of, and serves on the Board of, ARC Medical Devices Incorporated, the developer of PERIDAN™ Concentrate for the reduction of post-surgical adhesions in horses. Prior to co-founding ARC, Chris participated in the development of several product candidates at Angiotech Pharmaceuticals Inc., including the FDA approved Taxus® Stent.
Chris has built management teams, including corporate, scientific and clinical boards; and coordinated the raising of approximately 9 million dollars through equity financings, grants and tax credits. He has capably prosecuted intellectual property, resulting in the issuance of patents and trademarks; and has successfully negotiated collaborative research, license and distribution agreements. Chris obtained a PhD (Pharm) from The University of British Columbia and is a Licensed Pharmacist.
Chris's personal mission includes the training of mentors to help people connect with nature. He has completed the Wilderness Awareness School's Coyote Mentoring workshop and the Kamana One naturalist course, and is currently participating in the Kamana Two course. He has also completed a Remote Wilderness First Aid course.
Chris, his wife and his children enjoy connecting with nature together at their family sit spot in the rainforest of southwestern British Columbia.
Ann Muno, MSW, works as the Senior Program Analyst & Advocate at Powerful Voices, an organization she co-founded 15 years ago. There she supports policy, advocacy and training in the area of gender specific services. Ann also serves as the Project Director for the Justice for Girls Coalition of Washington State. She is a graduate of both the University of Illinois and the MSW Program at the University of Washington.
Ann has recently enjoyed working on the state-level Beyond Pink! conference, participating in a writing fellowship and writing about the girl justice movement.
Ann also enjoys spending time with her partner Kevin and their five children. In fact, hiking in and around Washington is a favorite pasttime and led to the discovery of WAS. As a board member, she was thrilled to join WAS' efforts.
Warren
Moon is the current Executive Director of Wilderness Awareness School and a member of the Board of Trustees.
Read his full biography above.
If you would like more information about volunteering on Wilderness Awareness School's Board of Directors, contact Warren Moon, Executive Director by email using our web Contact Form or by phone: 425-788-1301 x 37.
