Trisha Smrecak

I am a Michigan native who’s been lucky enough to explore the outdoors with learners across the US as an environmental educator. I’ve hunted fossils with middle schoolers in NY and explored climate change with 4-H clubs in multiple states. I played with students on 1400 acres in Alabama as the director of McDowell Environmental Center. In Michigan, I’ve gotten to work with students and teachers doing science on a tall ship schooner in the Great Lakes.

Along the way, I’ve held many faculty roles teaching environmental sciences, I’ve volunteered in school and community gardens, and helped build and maintain hiking trails. Bringing youth into the natural world renews my curiosity about it, and being curious is my favorite state of mind. I’m very excited to be teaching at Greenspire, and to be cultivating curiosity about the environment and the lifelong skills needed to investigate our curiosities with our students.

I share my adventures with my spouse, my two young children, Roan and Nell, and my dog. I’m usally reading a couple books and I try to spend as much time as possible outside in all seasons.