Board Members & Contractors
Rebecca Klapwyk
Member at LargeRebecca 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
Member at LargeI am, first and foremost, a lover of learning. I have expanded this passion to Outdoor Education in my role as an Outdoor School teacher at Greenall High School. I grew up spending time outdoors in Manitoba and have come to love Saskatchewan equally as much. My husband and I especially love...
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Zoe Arnold
Member at LargeZoe loves being outside more than anywhere else because it is where she feels most at home. As a child she would spend hours perched up in a tree, reading books or watching the clouds. Zoe trained and worked as a Forest School Leader in the UK, facilitating nature-based, child-centred...
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Ryan Clark
Member at LargeRyan works as an environmental policy analyst for the Ministry of Environment within Regina developing technical standards and legislation with respect to air, land and water. He has worked throughout Saskatchewan and Alberta conducting studies in the areas of ornithology...
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Aditi Garg
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
Past PresidentSean 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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Leah Japp
General ManagerLeah lives on an acreage near Craven with her husband and two small children. Leah has a background and training in outdoor and environmental education. Her family enjoys acreage life, camping, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, geocaching, canoeing, gardening, running,...
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Karen McIver
Journal EditorKaren currently teaches science at Winston Knoll Collegiate. She has experience teaching in integrated education programs including an outdoor program for grade 11 students called Trek School. She has a Masters of Educational Foundations degree with a thesis focused on the places...
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Jeff Moore
Member at LargeJeff is an instructor at the Greenall Outdoor School in Balgonie and a proud father of 2. Jeff loves to snowshoe and ski in the winter and hike and canoe in the summer. He is a firm believer that outdoor education is the most powerful way to promote environmental awareness. Jeff is very...
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Merrissa Karmark
Member at LargeMerrissa Karmark lives in the prairie parkland, where she works as a substitute teacher for Horizon School Division. In the summer months, she plans and plants gardens with family and friends here at home. In the winter, she and her husband head to Nicaragua where they work with a local...
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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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