PARTNERS & INSTRUCTORS
PARTNERS & INSTRUCTORS
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Leadership
Leadership
Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest has Agreements in place with Children’s Forest Network partners to assist in delivery of our collective goals. The Greening Youth Foundation’s (GYF) mission is to work with diverse, underserved and underrepresented children, youth and young adults in an effort to develop and nurture enthusiastic and responsible environmental stewards. The Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s mission is to preserve and manage the A.T. – ensuring that its vast natural beauty and priceless cultural heritage can be shared and enjoyed today, tomorrow, and for centuries to come. Since 1930, the Georgia Appalachian Trail Club has managed, maintained, and protected the 125 miles of A.T. in Georgia with nearly 800 volunteers. The Georgia Mountain Research and Education Center is unique to the University of Georgia system, and conducts ongoing research and education projects, including environmental education programs for youth in rural North Georgia counties.
Meet the team
Meet the team
Collaboration and partnership are all based on trust, if you can win the trust of a person then you can have them as a partner to invest in anything.” ― Anuj Jasani
"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." – Ryunosuke Satoro
Delia Clark
Principal and Confluence
Delia Clark is Principal at Confluence, where her work focuses on building sustainable communities through facilitating civic engagement, place-based learning, heritage interpretation, strategic planning, and community dialogue. She is a frequent trainer and facilitator in these areas throughout the United States and internationally, for organizations that include National Park Service, US Forest Service, Appalachian Trail Conservancy, Iditarod Historic Trail Alliance, Shelburne Farms, International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and QLF/Atlantic Center for the Environment. Delia is the co-author of Questing: A Guide to Creating Community Treasure Hunts published by University Press of New England; Learning to Make Choices for the Future: Connecting Public Lands, Schools and Communities Through Place-based Learning and Civic Engagement; Building Skills for Effective Facilitation; and other manuals and chapters; which have collectively been translated into six languages. www.deliaclarkconfluence.com
Sarah Adams
Appalachian Trail Conservancy
Sarah grew up in Dahlonega, GA, where the A.T. has always been a presence in her life. During her undergrad at Yale, she was an Environmental Studies major and pursued learning environmental humanities approaches to research, policy, and community engagement. Her senior thesis examined cross-cultural connections between the A.T. and Japan’s Shinetsu Trail, which was heavily modeled after the A.T. for its cooperative management system (click here for an online exhibit of her thesis or the May Ed-Venture session). After graduating in May 2020, she returned home to Dahlonega and became involved with ATC first as a North Georgia A.T. Community Coordinator. With a team of dedicated volunteers from the Georgia Appalachian Trail Club and ATC staff, she helped establish the North Georgia AT Communities Network to better communicate and coordinate with the state’s A.T. communities. Most recently, in July 2021, Sarah joined ATC as Regional Manager for the Georgia and southern North Carolina portion of the trail. Outside of the A.T., she loves to play old-time music, help out on her family’s farm, and listen to oral histories. Appalachian Trail Conservancy Regional Manager
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Julie Judkins
Co-Founder, Just~Trails|Consultant
Working almost 20 years to foster a culture of inclusion at the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC), Julie cultivated greater strength and resilience within and beyond the organization as she worked with managers to protect the Appalachian Trail and its greater ecosystem of communities and people. Julie led ATC’s networks of people and partners through education initiatives, youth programs and community partnerships. She continues to consult with the ATC, as well as other trail organizations and communities. She is co-chair of the Partnership of the National Trails System’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion board committee, and co-chair of the World Trails Network’s Knowledge Task Team. She is on the leadership team of the regional coalition, Everybody’s Environment, and the advisory group of the Growing Outdoor Communities in Western North Carolina.
Prior to ATC, Julie served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Armenia, and also worked with Hurricane Island Outward Bound in Key Largo. She has a BA in Communications from North Carolina State University and a Masters of Environmental Management through Duke’s Environmental Leadership program at the Nicholas School of Environment. During family time, she loves volunteering on trails and paddling down the river with her son.
Kelsey McNicholas
U.S. Forest Service
Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest
Raised outside of Philadelphia, Kelsey spent most of her childhood time feeling responsible for her own education. She holds a BA in Peace & Conflict, Sociology, and Community (made possible by the Bonner Foundation) and has been facilitating groups of various sizes and purposes since. From multilingual community meetings, to kneeling next to middle schoolers to investigate insects, Kelsey enjoys connecting with people. For many years she dovetailed this with her complete love for the outdoors by co-coordinating the Outdoor Program of an Atlanta-area Montessori school and serving as a Partnership Coordinator for Children’s Forest Network through the U.S. Forest Service. Kelsey feels privileged to serve public lands and everyone who co-owns them (which is everyone!) as a Community Engagement Specialist with the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest.
Stefan Moss
Principal Consultant, the Moss Group
Stefan is an international environmental scientist and educator with a career in the field that spans almost twenty years. As a scientist, he has published papers on toxic chemicals in the environment including PCBs, flame retardants, and pesticides. He has worked in the public sector on UN-related projects in the Caribbean including the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. In the private sector, he parlayed his experience in ecotoxicology to work on environmental remediation projects in the United States for Fortune 500 companies such as Exxon Mobil and BP. A gifted science communicator and public speaker, Stefan has held several academic appointments and currently lectures at Georgia State University. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Biology from Lee University, and a Master's degree in Environmental Science from the University of Tennessee.
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