Member Spotlight:
Sarah Maldonado Environmental Educator 2 Shirley Chisholm State Park, NYS Parks
Sarah leads the environmental education team at the new Shirley Chisholm State Park in Brooklyn. She also serves on the NYCMER Board and is an educational consultant, focused on curriculum development and education management systems. Specifically, she supports adult-child conversations, both in and out of the classroom.
She has previously worked at the American Museum of Natural History, the Queens Zoo (part of the Wildlife Conservation Society), the Montezuma Audubon Center, Beaver Lake Nature Center, Alley Pond Environmental Center, and AmeriCorps NCCC.
She earned a Master of Professional Studies in Environmental Education and Interpretation from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and a Bachelor of Arts in Secondary Math Education from CUNY Queens College.
The 2016 NYCMER Conference was held on May 2, 2016 at the Morgan Library.
Conference attendess live-tweeted using #nycmer16.
This year's conference featured:
Keynote Conversation with Steven Seidel, Faculty Director of the Arts in Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Jennifer Ifil-Ryan, Associate Director, Education & Community Engagement at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling.
Handouts and presentations along with a full video of the keynote from the conference are shared on the resource section of the Member Zone.