She loves working with all of the families as a family unit. In her professional life she’s either teaching at schools or teaching adults. It’s so much fun to work with different family groupings: 2 grandparents + 2 teenagers, 2 parents + a toddler. Sometimes it’s putting a worm on a fishing hook and sometimes they are getting into the deep biology. The ultimate goal is to get them to continue to go outside on their own. There is a whole opportunity if you just step outside. Sometimes you forget that not everyone grew up going outside. This provides a safe space to share the outdoors with other.
She has done some work called Becoming an Outdoors Woman. She’s done some teaching with them outside of work. It’s about empowering adult women. Its focus is on some activities that are stereotypically male: bow hunting, rifle hunting, etc.
Living in Iowa, she loves a good prairie. If it’s not in a prairie, it’s being on a kayak.
Her father used to work with Judy. Does Environmental Education at the county level. Got gradually more and more involved through the years. Professionally this is what she does and she has access to a lot of materials.
Her title is Naturalist for the county. Most counties employee one if not two naturalists. She works with schools doing programming in school or taking kids on field trips. They also do summer camps. They have an old 4H campground that they now operate out of.
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