denise iszczuk
President
Denise strives to connect youth and their natural world to empower them toward environmental responsibility. Denise has her BSc in Geography and Environmental Science and is certified instructor for CWF's Project Wild. Denise lives and works as a outdoor educator/consultant in southwestern Ontario.
Alison Ellwood
Vice President
After many years of backcountry guiding and working in the realm of sustainable development in Canada and abroad, Alison pursued her teaching career including a Masters Degree in Environmental Education and Communication from Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC. Alison currently works in the Indigenous Education Department for the Durham District School Board as an Outdoor and Environmental Education Coach. She loves nothing more than exploring and learning outside with students and taking action for a more sustainable and equitable world.
Melanie Jefferson
Director-at-large
Rene Gualtieri
Director-at-large
Rene has her BEd in Education and BEs in Environmental Studies from York University. She went on to study at UBC and holds a post-graduate diploma in Outdoor Environmental Education. Rene pursued her teaching career at Fronterra Farm in Prince Edward County, Ontario to take on the role of educator and create a nature based learning program that incorporates curriculum, social emotional learning, gardening and nurturing a love for the outdoors. She hopes in future to work in an outreach role and collaborate with Indigenous knowledge keepers to enrich learning and connections to our environment.
Your Name
Director-at-large
We are looking for four more directors to join us for the next year. If you would loke to contribute to environmental education in Ontario, please contact us at info@osee.ca.
Stacie Goldin
Director-at-Large
Stacie has been an OCT certified educator since 1995, teaching children of all ages. Through an organic, meandering path, where she had the opportunity to work as the in-house educational consultant at tvokids for 13 years, a children’s yoga instructor, an educational consultant for children’s media and volunteer farm-hand at an organic vegetable farm for 4 years, (and wearing may other hats), she now finds herself teaching at a private school in Toronto as their Environmental Coordinator, using the school’s large teaching garden in curriculum-connected ways with children 2-13 years old.
Natalie Breton
Director-at-large
Natalie Breton (she/her), from Sudbury, Ontario, is a teacher and author of children’s books. With a deep love for animals and their habitats, Natalie infuses her writing with a passion for nature, inspiring her mission to teach environmental education. You can learn more about her work at https://nataliebreton.org/.