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Meet
The PCEE Staff
Kathleen Paul
Director
 Kathleen Cowles Paul joins the PCEE from her previous
position with Penn State Shenango (Sharon, PA), where
she served as director of continuing education. She has
earned a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Education
from Michigan State University and a master’s in
Adult and Community Education from the Indiana University
of Pennsylvania. She has also received extensive training
to supplement her considerable experience in development
(grant writing and individual donations), organizational
leadership, and the application of creative problem solving
techniques to support mission and program development.
Her previous professional experiences include the development
of a school and neighborhood-based IPM program (with
supporting educational materials) for the John Muir Institute
for Environmental Studies, oversight of environmental
and community education for the City of Pittsburgh (including
the Frick Environmental Center), serving as head of the
education and training department and then director of
planning and development for Pittsburgh Action Against
Rape, and working as an independent consultant with non-profit
organizations (including the Rachel Carson Homestead
Association) to develop strategic direction and action
plans.
Past activities include the development of training
programs for professionals and a wide variety of non-formal
educational materials and programs for both children
and adults, including numerous members of populations
traditionally under-served by environmental education.
She has presented non-formal educational programs at
the elementary, middle, high school and university levels,
and has conducted training workshops for teachers, public
health workers, social workers, laborers, administrators
and the general public. Many of her programs have been
funded entirely through grants that she developed.
Kathleen has assumed leadership of the PCEE with her
usual high level of enthusiasm and creativity. As a fervent
backpacker, hiker and sailor, Kathleen has always looked
for ways to contribute to the health of the planet and
to share her love of the workings of nature with others.
She feels that the PCEE can make a significant contribution
to the reputation that Pennsylvania already enjoys as
a cutting edge provider of environmental education. Her
goals for PCEE in the immediate future are to identify
ways to support agencies and organizations that are already
providing environmental education and to assess the educational
needs of underserved audiences. She looks forward to
hearing your thoughts.
Kathleen
Paul’s Resume
E-mail: Kathleen Paul
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Richard Knight
Communications Coordinator  Dick Knight has been with PCEE since 2001 after a
31 year career teaching middle school science and computer
science in Montgomery County, Maryland. He has earned
a bachelor's degree in
Earth Science, master's degree in Science Education and
A+ Computer Technician Certification. In addition to
his teaching duties he was involved in
curriculum and teacher development programs
with NASA, NOAA, USGS, Smithsonian Institution; University
of Maryland, and the American Meteorological Society.
In 1998 he was recognized as the outstanding middle school
science teacher in Montgomery County. After "retiring",
he returned to New Castle and has kept busy doing home
remodeling, working as a computer technician, and as
an environmental educator with Pa. Bureau of State Parks.
Dick is responsible for maintaining the PCEE Web site
and other technology related projects.
E-mail Mr.
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Melissa Reynolds
Education Programs Coordinator
PCEE is thrilled to welcome Melissa Reynolds as the new Education Programs Coordinator. Along with a strong background in environmental education and training in a variety of non-formal and professional settings, she brings experience and expertise in the arenas of for-profit business and sustainable agriculture.
Melissa will be responsible for the educational components of upcoming and current initiatives, including the development of outreach materials, the virtual EE resource library and the educational portions of PCEE’s new Web site.
Melissa’s educational credentials include a bachelor’s in Environmental Forest Biology from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York, and a master’s degree in Environmental Education from Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.
Her past positions include teaching outdoor education at YMCA Camp Kern near Cincinnati, Ohio, conservation education at the Oglebay Good Zoo in Wheeling, West Virginia and environmental education with Lutherlyn’s EE Program in Prospect, PA. Melissa has worked with at-risk high school students in the environmental science portion of the R. Benjamin Wiley Partnership Program at Slippery Rock University, and Special Olympics athletes at Lutherlyn. Melissa has also received training in numerous educational materials, including a variety of Pennsylvania-specific curricula. Most recently she worked in human resources and benefits with First National Bank (of Pennsylvania) in Hermitage and Davevic Benefit Consultants in nearby Grove City.
A member of the Pennsylvania Alliance for Environmental Education (PAEE) and the Pennsylvania Association of Sustainable Agriculture (PASA), Melissa is personally invested in living as sustainably and lightly as possible on the earth. She is realizing her dream of homesteading while still living in town, including raising heritage-breed chickens, expanding the organic vegetable garden, and adding two sheep over the next few years.
E-mail Melissa Reynolds |
Dixie Wolfe
Office Coordinator
Dixie comes to PCEE with a 21 year career, working at Slippery Rock University in the Facility & Planning Department and more recently, University Police. She grew up in Slippery Rock and was the daughter of Woodrow Portzlin, PA State Game Warden and Land Manager for Butler and Lawrence Counties. Through this connection with wildlife, she truly appreciates all the resources and beauty that Pennsylvania has to offer.
Her interests are horseback riding, swimming, scuba diving, and roller skating with her grandchildren. Dixie looks forward to working with the staff at PCEE whom she says are "terrific and hardworking" .
Email Dixie Wolfe
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Erin Frisk
Graduate Assistant
Email: Erin
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Kathy Abramowski
Intern
Email: Kathy |
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Phillip Molnar
Graduate Assistant
Email: Phillip
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Gina Staub
Graduate Assistant
Email: Gina |
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| Calandra Jones
Student Worker
Email: Calandra
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Angela Ndungu
Student Worker
Email: Angela |
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