School Year Program and Adult Program Manager
Pronouns: She/Her
Shivani has always felt at home in nature. She spent her youngest years outside — exploring the gushing springtime creek behind her house, building forts in the woods throughout the summertime with her sister, making gigantic leaf piles in the fall, and tromping through feet of snow in the long winters on the land of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishinaabeg, and the Haudenosaunee people.
While she has always enjoyed working with youth, her landing in the Snoqualmie Valley in 2015 was the beginning of her calling towards youth nature mentoring. She began working for WAS in 2018, first as a Youth Program Instructor and now as the Manager of our School Year Youth and Adult Programs.
Shivani sees nature connection as one of the most accessible and powerful tools for building healthy communities, and she is committed to delivering high-quality WAS programs to our students. She loves wildcrafting, jumping in cold water, playing music, and hanging out with her family. If you follow the sound of laughter, you might also find Shivani – she loves to laugh!