About me
Alice Tsoodle comes from the Kiowa and Cherokee people of Oklahoma and is descendent of European settlers. She grew up in New Mexico and returns by way of Oklahoma, Colorado, and Washington. Her interests and experiences include walking with and learning from children as they reclaim their relationships with lands, waters, and more-than-human relatives. She also enjoys reading, writing, hiking, camping, lifting, and walking.
Alice holds a masters degree in education - curriculum & instruction (UW), a bachelors in environmental studies (UWB), and certificates in education for environment and community (IW), restoration ecology (UW-SER), permaculture (OSU), CPR/ First Aid (AHA),and Wilderness First Aid (NM-MMC). Her work specializes in community outreach, program development, indigenous and western field science education, curriculum design, learning sciences research, and charter school administration.
She has eight years professional experience working in public schools, twelve years professional experience in outdoor education and community outreach, twelve years of professional experience working within urban indigenous communities, and four years of management experience in higher education. She has also been invited to guest teach in classes, workshops, and conferences with topics around indigenous ways of knowing and restoration ecology; designing and building science learning environments from indigenous philosophies; and studying child, family, and teacher learning and practice in outdoor environments.
