Director

Lia Keller

Born: Anchorage, AK 

Education: B.S. Honor’s Psychology, Gustavus Adolphus College (MN) and  M.S. Counseling Psychology, Central Washington University (WA)

Enjoyable Past Jobs: High Ropes Course Facilitator (Wichita, KS), Psychiatric Triage Counselor in the Emergency Room (Spokane, WA) and Knitting Instructor at Twist (Wichita, KS).  

Summer Fun: Fly fishing, hiking, paddle boarding, triathlons, biking and trail running.

Winter Fun: Cross country skiing, snowboarding, kick-sledding, ice fishing, snow machining, dog mushing and sledding.

I think that the preschool years are short and special.  Instead of a program with intense structure, an academic focus and hours spent inside, I feel preschool age children need freedom to explore and time outside.  The more I read about Forest Schools, the more necessary they seem.  I hope to start this program small and grow into a larger school in the future.