I was born in Murray, KY, grew up in Tallahassee, FL, and lived all over the Carolinas and in New Zealand. In 2014 I graduated from Clemson Universit…
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Lance Taysom has many fun jobs: teaching wilderness medicine, outdoor living, and survival skills, caring for patients on a rescue helicopter and …
Laura grew up in the flatlands of Florida, but moved to North Carolina to work as a whitewater raft guide immediately after graduating from high scho…
Laura Hansen, NOLS Director of Custom Education, started her journey with NOLS in 2015 as a Wind River Range backpacking student and then, in a fu…
Laura teaches NOLS Wilderness Medicine courses and works in the field for NOLS. In recent history she has also worked a ski patroller, raft-guide, an…
Glad has been an instructor for the Wilderness Medicine Institute for many years. Her background in international work, emergency medicine, infectiou…
Lauren is a Wilderness EMT and NOLS Wilderness Medicine Instructor. Originally from Los Angeles, Lauren discovered outdoor education through the Wild…
Lena has a teaching degree from University of Umeå, Sweden. Lena, a native of Sweden, has worked as a wilderness educator since the early 80's. Lena …
Leon is a NOLS Wilderness Medicine instructor and a graduate of the NOLS Outdoor Educator with Wilderness First Responder course. He calls Austin, Te…
Lesford Duncan, MPH, is the Executive Director of the Outdoor Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the outdoor industry dedicated to increasing eq…
Liam Downey spent much of his adult life in a Chicago office, staring out a grimy window at a brick wall. He walked away from that, and now lives in …
Linda joined the Advancement department in the Fall of 2022 as the Associate Advancement Officer, bringing with her over 17 years of experience in th…
Linda has been a NOLS instructor since 1979 and was the NOLS Human Resources Director for 26 years. Her career at NOLS included co-authoring the firs…
Lindsay first came to NOLS as a participant on a Rocky Mountain Instructor Course in 2008. From here on, she has found herself most at home camping a…
After growing up in Salt Lake City, and attending college in Colorado, Liz’s love of wild places and working with young people and teaching culmin…
Born and raised in San Rafael, CA, I moved to Colorado and graduated from CU Boulder and have remained in the Rocky Mountain Region since. I receive…
Born and raised only a few Wyoming miles away from Lander in Thermopolis, Wyoming, Logan grew up in the great outdoors. He learned to snowboard on th…
Native to the windy state of Wyoming, Logan has yet to find a reason to leave. The state’s open spaces created a passion for him to pursue conservati…
The outdoors have always been a part of Lori’s life for as long as she could remember. She worked as a camp counselor and cabin leader at Courage Cam…
Lou has always loved being outdoors, from climbing trees as a kid in Iowa, then climbing mountains in Colorado. Her first stop at NOLS was for the Fa…
In 2011, Louis graduated college with degrees in Jazz and Geology and returned to the wilds of the Pacific Northwest intending to become a baker. Ins…
Lyn Lewis is an executive in the senior living industry and is passionate about operational excellence and resident experience. She works for Atri…
Lynn Petzold began instructing for NOLS in 1994 and has led sea kayaking and backpacking expeditions at many of the domestic and international NOLS c…
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