[ALUMNUS] Part-Time Environmental Educator
Interests and Expertise
Simon sings songs, writes songs, and creates concert experiences that encourage everyone to sing together songs of Earth-care, justice, and integrity. Putting to use his academic background in renewable energy and ecological design, Simon volunteers as a coordinator of the Lenape Forest Garden project with the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware, with a new focus on increasing the health of freshwater mussel populations in the local watershed. Other interests include dynamic governance (sociocracy), permaculture, and decolonization.
Education
- B.A. in philosophy with a concentration in music as a tool for community building and trauma transformation, Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont.
- Permaculture Foundations Certification through a decolonization lens, The Eco-Institute at Pickards Mountain, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Experience
- Part-time environmental educator, Stroud Water Research Center, 2022–2025.
- Board member, Lenape-Union Land Trust, 2021–present.
- Coordinator, Lenape Forest Garden Project, 2019–present.
- Clean Water Advocacy, Clean Water Action, 2018–2020.
- Sustainability Office, Green Mountain College, 2014–2018.
- Environmental educator/deckhand, The Schooner A.J. Meerwald, Bayshore Discovery Project, Port Norris, New Jersey, 2012–2013.
