Alumni Spotlights
Chloe Houle
Chloe Houle studied at Au Sable’s Pacific Rim Campus in the summer of 2016. She returned to work at the Pacific Rim Institute and serve as an RA for Au Sable’s summer courses for several years. She worked as a naturalist and middle school teacher before landing her dream job directing the outdoor education program for the Mission Springs Camps and Conference Center in Santa Cruz, California.
Amiah Warder
Amiah Warder studied at Au Sable’s Pacific Rim Campus in the summer of 2015. She applies her ecological training to help communities in Southeast Asia and Asia access clean and sustainable sources of water. In this interview she shares how the spiritual disciplines of rest, scripture, community, and prayer keep her going in desperate situations.
Jackson Johnson
Jackson Johnson took courses at Au Sable’s Great Lakes Campus in the summer of 2018. He has worked on prescribed fires and wildfires in California’s Yosemite National Park, Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, and across the country. He is currently a lead firefighter for a U.S. Forest Service hotshot crew.
David Sellers
David Sellers took multiple winter and summer classes at Au Sable's Michigan and Pacific Rim campuses between 2007 and 2009. He currently works as a principal scientist at Pfizer's Kalamazoo manufacturing plant. He shares how learning about the natural world lifted him out of a depression and how environmental and health issues connect.
Andie Albert
Andie Albert took courses online and at Au Sable’s Michigan campus in the spring and summer of 2021. She currently works with her First Nation, the Chippewa of the Thames, in Ontario, Canada. She monitors and supports endangered species within the tribe’s 10,800 acres of unceded land and within their original treaty territory of over two million acres. She is also studying in Western University’s Environment and Sustainability master's program.
Eva Heetebrij
Eva Heetebrij joined Au Sable’s Boardman River Study during the summer of 2020. She graduated from Calvin University in April 2022 with an environmental science degree and currently works at Merjent, a Minneapolis-based environmental consulting firm focused on energy clients. She shares about what grounds her in the tensions and opportunities of her work.
Greg Snyder
Greg Snyder took a winter stream ecology class at Au Sable in January, 1993 as part of his biology major at Calvin University. He is currently the Assistant Regional Manager for the Minnesota DNR Division of Forestry. He shares some of his vocational journey and the theology and spiritual practices that sustain his work