Annie Henderson

Annie is joining Walking Mountains with a diverse background in community engagement, field education, and programmatic leadership. Annie strives to connect students and communities with the natural world to collaboratively solve social and ecological challenges. Annie’s has B.S. in Biology from Saint Michael’s College in Vermont. She is a graduate the Teton Science Schools Graduate program, where she spent a year-in-residency studying place-based education and natural resource management. She received her M.S. in Environmental Studies with a concentration in Environmental Education from Antioch University New England. Annie is passionate about environmental justice, community engagement, Indigenous Knowledge systems, and social-ecological systems. Annie brings an interdisciplinary pedagogy rooted in cultural responsiveness, student-centered and place-based learning, and emergent strategy to mentoring and teaching the Walking Mountains Graduate Fellows. In her free time, you can catch Annie on the trails running, skiing and biking with her foxlike dog, Agnes, in tow!