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The Nature Consortium is
a grassroots, community-based organization whose mission is to teach
environmental lessons through the creative arts and hands-on conservation
projects. We produce a Youth Art Program, an Urban Forest Restoration
Project and the Arts~in~Nature Festival.
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Lisa Corbin – Director of Development
I have Kansas roots, (no Dorothy jokes please!) and have worked in the non-profit sector for seventeen years. I first worked as a health educator, and then moved into fundraising, beginning with bake sales and auctions and progressing into annual fund drives, development plans, and major gifts. I have two growing boys who keep me on my toes, and in my spare time (?!) I like to bake and take long walks, stopping at garage sales of course. I am truly blessed to be working with the staff and the Board of Directors here at the Nature Consortium!
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Elizabeth Dahl - Site Coordinator
Elizabeth
is excited to be working in the non-profit sector again. In high-school, she was the president of a youth-run non-profit foundation. She performs live music and enjoys traveling, photography, pottery, writing and playing music, language, camping and dabbling in any other creative art. |
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Marisa Ordonia - Restoration Project Assistant
Marisa grew up in the suburbs outside of Seattle where she spent a significant portion of her childhood exploring the woods behind her elementary school. During these unauthorized ventures she learned valuable lessons about stinging nettles and ate lots of Himalayan blackberries (in an effort to reduce the spread of non-native seed, of course). Since those childhood years, she has worked on several environmental restoration projects around King County and in Grand Canyon National Park, and she earned a Bachelor of Science degree from The Evergreen State College. Marisa believes that everyone should have access to natural and green spaces, and she is excited to be working with the Nature Consortium and connecting people to the West Duwamish Greenbelt. Outside of work, Marisa enjoys hiking, biking, traveling, and playing guitar in the dance punk band My Parade.
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Victoria Tangata – Site Coordinator
My name is Victoria Tangata and I really love being apart of the Nature Consortium family. I enjoy painting, drawing and writing. Working at Rainer Vista as the art cordinator has been been a dream come true. I love working with the kids and the teaching artists are very talented. |
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Monica Thomas – Outrach Specialist, Program Assistant
Monica is currently studying environmental science at the University of Washington. Her interests include writing, singing, and hugging trees. She loves listening to local music and experimenting with audio engineering in her spare time.
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Susan Thompson – Director of Operations
After graduating from
Oberlin
College
in 2002, Sue spent five years managing, and then directing an art gallery in
New York City
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Mark Tomkiewicz– Restoration Project Director
Mark Tomkiewicz, aka buphalo, earned a degree in Environmental Science from UMASS, Amherst. He has taught math, science, art, and English in traditional and alternative settings across the U.S. and abroad. As Assist. Director of Education at the Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center in Peninsula Ohio, he developed curriculum focused on incorporating appropriate technology into environmental education. buphalo is a mixed media artist and started working for the NC as a teaching artist in Jan. '06. His art varies from sound and kinetic sculpture to large scale collaborative public art. Tying his environmental background into his art, his projects tend to have organic shapes or carry themes focused on the human relationship with the natural world. www.fire-pod.com
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Nancy Whitlock –Executive Director
Nancy
is the founder and Executive Director of the Nature Consortium. She founded the organization back in 1998 from a desire to connect with neighbors and the idea that everyone has the ability to create and explore the arts and improve the environment.
When she’s not at work she’s trying to keep up with her biking-inspired husband and her 13 year old son.
photo credit: Kathryn True
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4408
Delridge Way SW Suite #107 | Seattle, WA 98106 | info@naturec.org | 206.923.0853
Located in the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center |
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