Nature / Environment Related Occupations

Carla Wilson '23 is a project manager with St. Mary’s Community Development Corp., specifically serving as garden manager of Lexington Manor Passive Park Community Garden. 

Lane (Brooks) McCue '18 earned a MS in Occupational Therapy from Welsey College in 2020. She started a business, Lane's Landscaping, in 2020, and is an occupational therapist.

Kelsey Hancock '18 is an outdoor program specialist at Girl Scouts Nation's Capital.

Kati Peditto '15 earned a PhD in Human Behavior and Design from Cornell University in 2019.  An environmental psychologist, she is a AIA Tuttle Graduate Fellow in Health Facility Planning and Design at The American Institute of Architects (AIA) seeking to  improve the human experience through evidence-based design and human factors. Her doctoral research focused on the design of the built environment for adolescents undergoing cancer treatment.  During the summer of 2016, Kati ran across the USA as part of the 4K for Cancer organized by the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults. 

Lauren Jackson '13 earned a MCP in City and Regional Planning from Morgan State University in 2017. She is an investigator at Baltimore City Office of Civil Rights.

Karina Mandell '12 earned a MPA from University of Baltimore in 2017. She is the CEO/Founder of Green Smart Cities," an initiative to build economically viable, environmentally sound, and socially just cities...through the application of Green Technology and community economic development strategies and partnerships." She is also the CEO/Founder of Sync the City, "a partner relationship management tool focused on helping agencies get organized to achieve synchronicity across their networks."  

Katie Lackler '12 is a farm manager at Metzger Farm and Winery in CA.

Peter Sparklin '11 was a crew member with Maryland Conservation Corps for a year after graduation and interned at Dripping Springs Farm where he was actively engaged in learning about sustainability, helping to care for vegetables grown for the local community and trying to deter the groundhogs that had been ravishing the zucchini plants. He also served as an apprentice at Morning Dew Farm. He is now a crops manager at Butterbee Farm in Baltimore.

Claire (Marian) Eisenbaum '10 is a senior faculty and course leader for the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) in the greater Boston area.