For nearly a decade now, Estephanie has been tracking language down a set of winding trails exploring the relationships between linguistics, cultural mythologies, integrities, and healing- birthing their organization Mycorrising, which works with individuals, local, and national organizations. They help to illuminate developmental relational strategies and practices. These often include reflective organizational awareness, conflict transformation, accountability, natural organizational models, and other mechanisms which are rooted in more supportive and mutual paradigms that make room for everyone’s gifts to thrive.

Estephanie is queer, Brown, primarily spanish-speaking, and the oldest of five. Descended of the Cumanagoto people, she lives in Penobscot Wabanaki territory, also called midcoast Maine, with their husband and three dogs. Estephanie is dedicated to re-membering their cultural traditions through food, dance, and story. With nature, community, and heart at the center of their work- they share embodied practices for decolonizing and cultivating deeper knowing to the natural within ourselves as pathways to re-membering our lifeways relationally.

Maggie Gotterer is the Executive Director of Two Coyotes Wilderness School in Connecticut. She joined the leadership team of NCN in 2020 after serving on the planning team for the Nature Connection Leadership Conference that year. She also serves on the boards of Green Village Initiative and Bridgeport Generation Now, which strive for food justice and a healthy democracy in Bridgeport, CT, where she lives.

Her love for the outdoors was cultivated at an early age growing up in Connecticut and spending summers on an island in Maine. She and her husband met as outdoor adventure guides at Georgetown University, and they are grateful to be raising their young family in Bridgeport.

maggie@twocoyotes.org.

A mother and grandmother, Lisa Donahue has worked and raised her family in various bio-regions in what is now called the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, awakening her curiosity and appreciation for the intersection of nature and culture. Since leaving corporate positions with  Apple, Time Warner, and DK Publishing, she has worked extensively in leadership positions with local and regional environmental organizations. When volunteering at her children’s school near Lake Ontario, Lisa developed a keen awareness and appreciation of the benefits of deep nature connection for all ages.  From 2018 Lisa has served on the Board of the Nature Connection Mentoring Foundation (dba 8 Shields Institute), and currently serves as President of the Board of Directors for the Guelph Outdoor School.  She lives with her favorite human and two cats on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne, Ute and Arapaho nations (now called Boulder, Colorado USA), where she is grateful for the inspiration and protection of the Flatirons.