Dana is a sustainability educator, curriculum developer, and teacher trainer. She holds an MS in Leadership for Sustainability Education, a BA in Sociology and Education, and an active Oregon teaching license. Dana has taught children and youth for more than a decade, as both a traditional public school teacher and as an informal educator. Dana’s work often focuses on the intersection of social studies and natural science, examining how people influence--and are influenced by--the natural world. She emphasizes inquiry, critical thinking, reflection, and empathy in all of her teaching, encouraging students to make real world connections to what they are learning. Dana also strives to ground her teaching in a trauma-informed, decolonized, anti-racist pedagogy that encourages community-building and multicultural inclusion. Dana is the founder of Educate Regenerate, an organization which leverages holistic transformative education to invent a regenerative future. Outside of work, Dana can be found in her garden, raising ducks and tending her permaculture food forest.