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Mariana Silva
Mariana is a nature lover who grew up in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She had much exposure to nature through trips to beaches, hikes in forests, and time spent at her family’s farm, where she learned about agriculture and was surrounded by animals and beautiful scenery. As an au pair in...
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Sophia Grande
Sophia grew up in the DC Metro area, where her appreciation for the outdoors came from her Abuela, who instilled a love for local parks, arts, history, and education. As a child, she and her family loved exploring the area’s local, state, and national parks. Now a senior at the...
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Katelyn Beam
Katelyn grew up in the forests of New Hampshire and has many memories from her childhood hiking, gardening, and exploring. She has a deep appreciation for parks and various other historical sites around the U.S. thanks to incredible teachers in high school who went above and beyond to make sure...
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Natalie Moon
Natalie grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, where her love for the outdoors began at an early age. One of her earliest memories of spending time in parks occurred when she was just 5 years old, protecting endangered sea turtles’ nests with her grandmother on the Cape Cod National Seashore. Since...
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Melody Walkiewicz
Melody grew up in New Jersey, exploring the woods right in her own backyard as well as the beaches of the Jersey shore. More recently she enjoys spending time outdoors hiking, camping, kayaking, and traveling wherever she can do those things! Melody received a Bachelor of Science in Wildlife Ecology...
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Dolores McDonagh
Dolores has been working to save places that matter for more than 30 years. She first fell in love with historic homes in elementary school when she came across a picture of her family home – a Victorian Four Square large enough to house her, her parents and her eight...
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Emily Bohr
Emily grew up in the Fredericksburg area of Virginia, and she has visited Shenandoah National Park every summer since she was young, making national parks and the importance of outdoor spaces near and dear to her heart. Emily is a recent graduate of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She...
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Emily Swanzy
Emily’s love of nature is rooted in the idea that outdoor experiences happen in both small, local green spaces and in the vast wilds of our National Park System. Now calling the mountains of North Carolina home, Emily is a Maryland native who spent her childhood summers roaming the mountains...
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Billy Schrack
Billy was introduced to the outdoors at a very young age, fishing and exploring parks with his family in and around Long Island, NY. His parents fostered the outdoor bug that has stuck with him throughout his life, especially when exploring Denali and Hawaii Volcanoes National Parks. Billy started his...
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Ivan Levin
“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” John Muir Ivan is a lifetime outdoor and park enthusiast, strongly believing in the importance of connecting current and future generations to...
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Phil Selleck
Phil grew up on the edge of town in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Woods, fields, and lakes were a short walk or bike ride away. Phil’s father, a veteran of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, inspired his son’s love of the outdoors. Stories of the North Woods and family...
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Becca Hansell
Becca’s love of nature and the outdoors began at a young age, running through the backwoods of Virginia and later exploring many state and national parks on family vacations. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Anthropology and graduate certificate in International Non-governmental Organization Management from James Madison University,...

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