As the coordinator of the Healthy Neighborhoods/Healthy Kids Project (HN/HK) Tiffany manages the development and implementation of the program.  She works with teachers to develop the model, implement curriculum, and plan service-learning opportunities.  Tiffany wrote and compiled the Healthy Neighborhoods/Healthy Kids Guide for educators and community partners and holds trainings in VT and at National conferences. 

Tiffany also works with the SSP at their pilot school, The Sustainability Academy (SA).  At the SA she works to use the lens of Sustainability to engage parents and community members in the school’s sustainability work. 

Before joining the Sustainable Schools Project staff in 2003, Tiffany explored the world of environmental education, wilderness therapy, and service-learning. After working for KidsPeace in Allentown, PA, Tiffany was Pocono Environmental Education Center’s Summer Camp Coordinator and Environmental Educator.   She then participated as an AmeriCorps Member through SCA’s NH Parks AmeriCorps program in Bear Brook State Park and was SSP’s first AmeriCorps Vista where she developed sustainability curriculum for traditional and non-traditional educational settings.  Tiffany also spent the better part of a year in Utah’s dessert and mountains as a Wilderness Counselor working with adjudicated youth.

Tiffany is a mother of two, a community activist, and a localvore.  She’s served on the Intervale Community Farm and Cooperative’s board for four years and serves as an advisor to the Youth on Boards program of Burlington’s Legacy Project. 

Teaching experience:  She is a certified teacher and did her student teaching in Kindergarten and fifth grades in Pennsylvania.  She has experience working with and teaching students from pre-K through adulthood.  Tiffany has taught sustainability, environmental, wilderness and agricultural education in the K-12 for 12 years, in formal and informal educational settings. 

Education:  Tiffany graduated from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania in 1998 with a degree in Elementary Education, and has a life-long love of learning. 

Guiding perspective:  Through every adventure in education and youth development, Tiffany took with her the skills, knowledge and beliefs that drove her to seek work with Shelburne Farms and the Sustainable Schools Project.  Tiffany believes that the each generation should be taught the skills necessary to make decisions that contribute to the health and sustainability of the world.  She believes that education should be well rounded in discipline and approach and grounded in one’s community.