Katie Baum Mettenbrink

Risk Management Director

Katie Baum Mettenbrink

Katie is the risk management director at NOLS. She has worked in outdoor education since 1999. Over two decades, she has held a variety of administrative roles at NOLS, chaired the Steering Committee of the Wilderness Risk Management Conference, co-authored Risk Management for Outdoor Leaders, and spent more than 140 weeks as a NOLS field instructor teaching leadership and wilderness skills in inspiring mountain and desert classrooms. In another life, she taught environmental education in the Pacific Northwest, had a brief stint as a political organizer, and worked at Princeton University’s outdoor program. She lives in Lander, Wyoming with her partner and their two youths – one human and the other canine.


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