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Heart, Expertise, and Wildness
Our team works behind the scenes and all over the world to give you the best experience possible. Click below to read their stories.
Aaron Divine
(Instructor)
Aaron began working in-town for NOLS in 1998 and started field instructing for the school in 2000. He primarily serves as a glacier mountaineering in…
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Abby Endres
(Admissions Officer)
Abby (she/her) grew up on the North Shore of Minnesota, fostering an early love of the outdoors. She now seeks out backpacking, canoeing, nordic skii…
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Adam Baxter
(Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician)
After graduating from an Atlanta, Ga. High School in 2002, Adam picked up an extraordinarily heavy backpack for the first time and marched through th…
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Ahmad Thomas
(Board Member)
Ahmad Thomas is the CEO of the Silicon Leadership Valley Group, California's most dynamic business association. As a change agent and next generation…
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Aiyana Green
(Wilderness First Responder)
Aiyana began climbing when she was 14 years old in the Pacific Northwest, and spent her 20s guiding rafts, instructing Outward Bound courses, and lea…
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Alan Neilson
(Instructor)
Born in Australia, where he grew up sailing off the beaches of Adelaide, Alan is an '85 NOLS Alaska Semester grad who started as an instructor in '86…
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Alan Townsend
(Board Member)
Alan R. Townsend is Dean and Franke Professor at the WA Franke College of Forestry and Conservation at the University of Montana. His childhood in Ha…
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Alice Hill
(Wilderness First Responder)
Alice gets her fill of wilderness medical field experience as a mountaineering and whitewater instructor who has taught extensively at NOLS’ high lat…
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Allen B. Macomber
(Advisory Council Emeriti)
Allen joined the Advisory Council in 2001 after serving for six years on the NOLS Board of Trustees including the last eighteen months as Chair. H…
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Allen O'Bannon
(Instructor)
Allen started working for NOLS in 1987. Since that time he has worked at almost every location and area of instruction. He has administered NOLS prog…
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Allie Maloney
(Instructor)
Allie started her career as an outdoor educator at age sixteen, as a summer camp counselor in beautiful western Washington. After graduating from the…
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Allie Sargent
(NOLS Alaska Operations Manager)
Allie is originally from the mountains of Western North Carolina but fell in love with Alaska in 2018. Since moving to Alaska, Allie has completed he…
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Amber Guzzardo
(Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician)
Amber graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Movement Science and has since explored her own movement across the country and to d…
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Amy Dominguez-Arms
(Former Trustee)
Amy is a philanthropic consultant who works with foundations on strategic planning, program design, field and nonprofit capacity assessment, and g…
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Amy Shambarger
(Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician)
Amy has been teaching community and workplace CPR and first aid classes for over 12 years along the Front Range of Colorado. She got the teaching bug…
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Andrea (Auny) Abegglen
(Former Trustee)
Auny is a seasoned business strategist and marketing executive with over 25 years of experience and a proven track record of helping to start and …
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Andy Blair
(NOLS Rocky Mountain Assistant Director)
Andy has been working for NOLS since 1992 as a field instructor and since 2001 as a wilderness medicine instructor. He is known to state repetitively…
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Andy Paul
(Instructor and Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician)
Andy started his NOLS journey as a student on an Outdoor Educator sea kayaking and hiking course in Alaska in 2010. He later completed an Alaska Inst…
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Anna Haegel
(Instructor)
Anna Haegel has supported NOLS in the field and in-town for many years. She got started with NOLS when she did a student semester in the Rockies in 2…
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Anna Horn
(Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician)
Anna ran away from the circus (where she practiced flying trapeze and contortion) for a less sedentary lifestyle as a NOLS Wilderness Medicine and NO…
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Anna Talucci
(Instructor)
Anna started NOLS work as a horse packer at Three Peaks Ranch. In 2007 she completed her Instructor Course concentrating mostly on wilderness, canyon…
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Anne Cannon
(Advisory Council Emeriti)
Anne was a field instructor for NOLS from 1969 - 1976 in addition to doing a number of different administrative jobs including being co-director i…
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Anne Harmann
(Wilderness First Responder)
Anne grew up playing in and on many of MN’s 10,000 lakes. During college, her career plans pivoted from neuroscience to marine ecology following a 30…
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Anne McGowan
(Advancement Communications Coordinator)
Anne hails from southcentral Pennsylvania, and spent weeks every summer of
her childhood camping and hiking with her family. Always with her were a …
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Anne Slaughter Perrote
(Wilderness First Responder)
Anne has enjoyed exploring the outdoors since before her first backpacking trip in a WV wilderness when she was 13. For the past 30 years she has wor…
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Annie Morita
(Former Board Member)
Annie is an executive with Apple, Inc., and was most recently the lead for Internet Software & Services in Greater China, focusing on the App Stor…
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Arianne Zwartjes
(Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician)
Ari came to NOLS from a background in search & rescue, as well as outdoor education and guiding, and a little experience as a medical interpreter in …
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Ashley Drake
(NOLS Wilderness Medicine Instructor & Custom Education Operations Manager)
Ashley Drake is a proud Oregonian who moved to the town of Lander, Wyoming to work for NOLS in 2015. Ashley is the Operations Manager for NOLS Custom…
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Ashley Wise
(Alaska Campus Director)
Ashley started with NOLS in 1998 after completing the River Instructor Course in Vernal, UT. As a field instructor, he works sea kayaking, hiking, pa…
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Atila Rego - Monteiro
(Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician)
Atila has held various administrator jobs at NOLS from Program Manager at the southern NOLS Patagonia base in Magallanes and in NOLS Brazil from 2005…
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Audrey Kruse
(Wilderness Medicine Instructor)
Audrey currently lives in Albuquerque, NM but loves to travel and explore new places whenever she can. She became hooked on outdoor adventure and exp…
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