I want to reiterate to you the gratitude I have for the work you’ve done in furthering multicultural environmental education. The field was entirely brand new to me when I started my research but it had completely resonated with my own vision of what I believe education, and environmental education, needs to be. Your work acknowledged the same challenges and concerns I witnessed in traditional environmental education, validated my intense desire to integrate more people and perspectives, and inspired me to explore more ways to connect folks with a sense of place. A quote of yours that I keep by my work desk to remind myself of “the why,” is that environmental education should “illuminate the essential idea that all cultures have a relationship with the natural world which they and all others can draw upon for understanding and inspiration.”

– Stephanie, Graduate Student

I just wanted to say thank you again for your support through these two sessions. I really enjoyed last night’s workshop, and I appreciated the handful of small changes that you integrated to help things flow a little more smoothly. You are an outstanding facilitator, and an absolute pleasure to work with!

– The Mountaineers

I enjoyed your participation as a panelist at The Commonwealth Club event earlier this year, on the topic of “No Child Left Inside”. Your reference to the concept of “environmental injustice” was particularly helpful in my understanding of the fundamental dynamics & challenges of leveling the playing field as it pertains to providing opportunities to all youth, to connect with the natural world.

– Board Member, Outdoor Education Organization, 2015

…Our profound thanks for the seeds you have planted here at Evergreen, Tacoma campus and throughout the region. You’ve raised some important issues for both students to consider in the immediate sense and faculty to consider in the larger sense. It is what you uncovered that might have more lasting impact than what you covered. You’ve stimulated some real reexamination for us…

– Jean MacGregor, Evergreen State College

Running-Grass is a wonderful facilitator

– Workshop Participant

Thanks. I’m always inspired by your workshops.

– Workshop Participant

…I so appreciate your wisdom, compassion and efforts to bring justice to all…

– Christine, State Agency Staff Person

Running-Grass is a treasure.

– Workshop participant feedback

…Your ability to challenge, provoke, [and] explore balanced with care and compassion [and] combined with organizational and procedural insights was so, so, very valuable…

– Environmental Non-Profit Director

You framed the whole talk by discussing “origin stories” and how they are hidden from us. Since our class is about the way ideas are disseminated, I am considering adding this to the class early on….You’ve filled a hole in my curriculum.

– Nicole, Writing Instructor, University of San Francisco

Thank you so much for your insight, vision and openness. It feels like your workshop has really catalyzed my passion for social justice…Your kind, patient guidance has been a reminder for me to look within to find the peaceful warrior.

– Reesha, Teacher, Slide Ranch

Thank you for challenging my perception of education and my role as an educator. Your discussion has changed my view of how I impact the students I work with.

– Jeremy, Teacher, Slide Ranch

Your recent presentation at New College was uniformly praised by my students—many of them K-12 teachers—as inspiring and provocative. We are still talking about it.

– Carol Silverman, New College of California

Your visit here meant a great deal to us, adding perspective and inspiration to our work and helping us to understand our convictions in a new way.

– Oliver Barton, Director, New Haven Ecology Project