Estrella Risinger joined the California Association for Environmental & Outdoor Education (AEOE) as the first executive director in 2019. Estrella works to increase AEOE’s capacity and reach, strengthening environmental education across the state. In addition to her role with AEOE, Estrella collaborates with environmental education associations from around North America as the Co-Chair of NAAEE’s Affiliate Working Group and seeks to advance environmental literacy in California’s schools as Co-Chair of the California Environmental Literacy Initiative (CAELI). Estrella started her career in the classroom, with summers spent exploring California and connecting youth to the natural world as an outdoor educator. Prior to joining AEOE, she served as the National Education Manager at NatureBridge. In this role, Estrella helped to launch the website Grow-outside.org, a Social and Emotional Learning Toolkit for Residential Environmental Learning Centers. She lives in Oakland, CA, where she is the mother of two active children who love being outside almost as much as she does.
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CAELI Co-Chair
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