Continued...Who Goes Here?

In contrast to her decision to work among the moss matted giants of the Northwest rainforests are her plans to travel to New York City’s Lower East Side to complete her Senior Applied Research Project (SARP) in the coming years. “In upstate New York I  worked at an environmental education center that served urban school kids. I loved working with those kids, and I developed a strong connection with a particular group of kids from a school in New York City,” she explains. “I want to return to this school in NYC and continue teaching about the natural world, but this time I want to connect the kids' lessons to places they’re familiar with,” she says with her signature enthusiasm.

Through her SARP, Vicky hopes to develop an environmental education curriculum using a local watershed as an outdoor laboratory for her students to explore the conservation issues in the New York City area and beyond.

Vicky is a woman who thinks big. From evergreen old-growth cathedrals to Manhattan Island high rises; Vicky plans on taking her passion for environmental education and putting it to good use. Her desire is to educate not only those privileged enough to visit the shrinking islands of our planet’s protected wilderness, but also those who may never have a chance to see something that is increasingly rare and precious. (click here to return to News and Views)