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Polly Diffenbaugh
Stanford University, BS Biological Sciences 1995
Stanford University, MA Education, 1997
Miami University, MA Biology, 2024
Yoga Teacher 200
Wilderness First Responder
I will graduate from the Miami University Global Field Program with a MA in Biology in December 2024.
For my full time job, I am a teacher educator and Senior Clinical Associate in the Stanford Teacher Education Program, I teach science methods courses and supervise student teachers in their preservice teaching year.
I am also a docent at the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve as well as a California Naturalist. I love being outside and learning more about natural history in my area. I teach nature journaling to my pre-service teachers as well as include it in my own personal practice.
During my time in this program I have had the opportunity to meet so many amazing people, to partner with the Vermillion Sea Institute as a trip leader and inspired me to get my Wilderness First Responder certificate.
I live with my family, partner and 3 children, although they are almost all out of the house, my dog and cat and a host of revolving foster kittens.
Land Acknowledgement
Land Acknowledgement
I make a land acknowledgement as a way to recognize and be mindful of how I participate in colonial legacies when living uninvited on land. I am grateful and feel the privilege of living on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Muwekma Ohlone people. This land was and continues to be land of great importance to the Muwekma Ohlone people and other familial descendants of the Verona Band. I try to act as a guest would and I honor and the continued work of Native people to regain and retain sovereignty of their land. Through my work I teach pre-service teachers about Indigenous ways of knowing by reading and learning from Indigenous scholars. I do this to continue to learn myself as well as to disrupt colonial patterns of teaching in our science classrooms. I continue to learn and be educated in this life long process. If you would like more information about the native land you live on, please go to Native Land Digital.
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