Board Members & Contractors
Rachel Mackenzie
Communication CoordinatorRachel grew up on the coast on Vancouver Island. Despite her love of moss and arbutus trees, Rachel relocated to Saskatoon last year and is enthusiastically embracing grassland topography and four-season life. Her outdoor goals for 2020 are to learn to identify 15 native prairie...
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Desiree Hortness
Member at largeDesirée was born and raised in Saskatchewan and currently resides in Warman with her husband and two children. She enjoys spending time outdoors with her family, especially seeing the natural wonder and play of her children in the prairie setting. Desirée feels being...
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Derek Hyland
Member at largeGrowing up in Saskatoon, Derek has been involved in the outdoors since his early years in Beavers, Cubs, and Scouts. This, along with outdoor ed clubs in elementary and high school spurred a love of camping, canoeing, mountain biking, snowboarding, and all things...
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Mike Prebble
Member at LargeMike works as an educator with the Saskatoon Public School Division where he instructs the Off the Grid environmental program out of Tommy Douglas Collegiate (TDC). The program is centered around equipping youth with the abilities and confidence to combat climate change and...
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Denise Skuce
TreasurerDenise is an avid outdoor play advocate. She is presently the East Side Director for Tykes and Tots Early Learning Centre inc. Denise fundamentally believes that children do best when they are outside playing and exploring. Connecting children to nature and nature to children is just...
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Rebecca Klapwyk
Program DirectorRebecca currently works for Healthy Start, a bilingual initiative that promotes physical activity and healthy eating in the early years. As an implementation coordinator she facilitates professional development training for Saskatchewan educators and teachers in the early...
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Heather Maurer
Vice PresidentHeather is, first and foremost, a lover of learning. She has expanded this passion to Outdoor Education in her role as an Outdoor School teacher at Greenall High School. Heather grew up spending time outdoors in Manitoba and has come to love Saskatchewan equally as much. She, her...
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Aditi Garg
Past PresidentAditi teaches high school math in French immersion and is passionate about youth engagement with nature in any subject. She is involved with the City of Saskatoon’s Environmental Advisory Committee and is a strong supporter of maintaining Saskatoon’s river valley as an...
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Sean Brandt
Member at largeSean works as an outdoor educator for the Prairie Spirit School Division in Warman, SK. where he delivers a course that focuses on environmental science and sustainability with an emphasis on developing a relationship to, and appreciation for the land. Sean is also one of the...
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Taniya Heuchert
Member-at-largeTaniya teaches in the Regina Public School system and brings her enthusiasm for the outdoors into the classroom regularly. She is a true student of nature, soaking in every experience that she can while connecting further to the world around her. Taniya seizes each and every...
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Merrissa Karmark
PresidentMerrissa Karmark lives in the prairie parkland, where she works as a middle school teacher for Horizon School Division. In the summer months, she plans and plants gardens with family and friends here at home and she is just beginning the Prairie Horticulture Certificate at U of S. She is...
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Andrea Nelson
Member at LargeSprouting on the prairies and taking root in the boreal forest, Andrea is most alive when she’s outside. As an outdoor guide, canoeing instructor, musher, and interpreter, her real passion is facilitating meaningful nature-based experiences for all ages -- kindling wonder,...
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