Katie Quinlan
Program Coordinator

Ms. Quinlan's background includes teaching 6th grade environmental education programs in Oregon and directing an adventure program for high risk youth. From these early teaching experiences she developed the firm belief that the best education happens in small groups where students are experientially involved in the process. Ms. Quinlan says the ESWP program represents a project where experience is the driving force in curriculum design, and every student is individually involved in each study. "No one sits back and watches."
Of the programs focus on the Owens River watershed, she notes that it is a watershed where the upper creeks are in a relatively natural state, but the lower river has been diverted since 1913. "Now we will watch and study a river being reborn into its natural channel," she says. "Just as the river is a ribbon of flowing water permeating the landscape it flows through we hope to connect the students and teachers of the communities that it passes through."