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Elizabeth Wing

PORTLAND,OR

Summary

Outdoor Educator with hands-on conservation experience and a deep interest in connecting people and land.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Trails Laborer (Seasonal)

Olympic National Park
Port Angeles, WA
04.2024 - Current
  • Maintained park's backcountry trail system using a variety of hand and power tools.
  • Built steps and retaining structures using drystone masonry techniques.
  • Re-routed damaged sections of trail by constructing smooth, safe, and aesthetically appealing new tread.

Youth Program Assistant

Vilda Nature Center
Fairfax, CA
05.2019 - 08.2024
  • co-led outdoor educational programming with children aged 4-12 in a mix of old growth forest and coastal settings.
  • The place-based curriculum emphasized plant and animal identification, tide pooling, tracking, and kayaking, and environmental stewardship.
  • ensured youth safety in dynamic coastal environment and shifting weather conditions.

Grounds Crew

Reed College
Portland, OR
09.2022 - 05.2024

⦁ Identified and removed invasive species from the Reed College Campus.
⦁ Maintained safe and accessible trails in the Reed Canyon.

  • Performed regular maintenance of grounds, including mowing, trimming, edging, pruning, and planting.

Teaching Coordinator

Trackers Earth
Portland, OR
05.2022 - 12.2022
  • Lead groups of children aged 7-15 in a range of outdoor activities, including plant identification, woodcarving, foraging, shelter building, fire building, and story telling.
  • Developed daily and weekly programs with an emphasis on teamwork, challenge, and outdoor ethics.
  • Ensured youth participants' safety and well-being under a variety of conditions in outdoor and urban areas.

Firefighter/ Corpsmember

California Conservation Corps
South Lake Tahoe, CA
05.2020 - 11.2021

⦁ Helped construct ADA compliant trails in Grover Hot Springs State Park.
⦁ Provided logistic support for emergency situations, including Covid-related food distribution and wildfire camp support
⦁ Responded to wildfire incidents on an Initial-attack handcrew in the Tahoe Basin. Assisted Captains as crew medic with WFR training and crew med kit.
⦁ Felled trees and preformed prescribed burns and part of a fuel-reduction wildfire prevention program for the City of South Lake Tahoe.
⦁ Rehabilitated fire-affected areas in the Santa Cruz Regional State parks.
⦁ Preformed backcountry trail maintenance and new trail construction in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest and Inyo National Forest.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - English, Creative Writing Concentration

Reed College
Portland, OR
05-2024

California Naturalist Certificate -

UC Davis Extension School
05-2018

Attended 2018-2020

Pratt Institute of Art & Design
Brooklyn, NY

Skills

  • Leading youth in engaging, safe outdoor education
  • Ability to work and live in remote and semi-remote environments with others for extended periods of time
  • Ability to communicate scientific and ecological concepts in accessible language, and facilitate group meaning-making and conversation

References

  • Sophie Carillo-Mandel (California Conservation Corps): 1 559 676 2676
  • David Capo (Trackers Earth): David.james.capo@protonmail.com 256 684 6124
  • Sarah Wagner-McCoy (Reed Environmental Humanities): smccoy@reed.edu 503 517 7663

Timeline

Trails Laborer (Seasonal)

Olympic National Park
04.2024 - Current

Grounds Crew

Reed College
09.2022 - 05.2024

Teaching Coordinator

Trackers Earth
05.2022 - 12.2022

Firefighter/ Corpsmember

California Conservation Corps
05.2020 - 11.2021

Youth Program Assistant

Vilda Nature Center
05.2019 - 08.2024

Bachelor of Arts - English, Creative Writing Concentration

Reed College

California Naturalist Certificate -

UC Davis Extension School

Attended 2018-2020

Pratt Institute of Art & Design
Elizabeth Wing