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Casey’s passion for exploring is founded in her experiences growing up with Glacier National Park as her playground. She developed a personal and indispensable relationship with the natural world during her summers of hiking and backpacking with her family and winters spent skiing, while also dreaming of traveling to places that seemed unreachable from rural northwestern Montana.

While attending Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, those unreachable places became tangible. Casey spent a semester studying the diverse ecologies and cultures of East Africa, which culminated with a trek to the summit of Mt. Kenya’s third highest peak and rafting the headwaters of the Nile. Her first experience abroad permanently altered her worldview and strengthened her commitment to make a lifelong pursuit of cross-cultural understanding and international exploration.

Casey participated in another study abroad program in Cuenca, Ecuador as her last semester before graduating with a BA in Environmental Studies. She forewent attending her graduation ceremony to travel in Peru and Bolivia, as well as to take an amazing tour of the Galapagos Islands by sailboat. She “settled down” in a small coastal village in Ecuador, where she did volunteer work with underprivileged children by morning and learned to surf by afternoon.

For the past couple of years, Casey has loved every moment of leading students on hikes and cross-country ski excursions in the mountains of Colorado as an educator for the Gore Range Natural Science School and the Keystone Science School.  She has also been a field instructor for Ecology Project International working with students and sea turtles in Costa Rica. Her latest adventure with Global Explorers was climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania last summer with Leading the Way students.