Our Team
Lisa Kosglow
Lisa Kosglow is the Director of Let’s Get Out and is happiest when she is guiding any of our programs. She is the co-author of Kidding Around the Gorge-The Hood River Area’s Ultimate Guide to Family Fun, and the co-author of Let the Kid Guide: Putting Nature Back Into Our Lives. She’s a two-time Olympian and an avid outdoors person. Lisa specializes in fostering a sense of wonder in children and nature-based connection. For 20+ years she has instructed children and adults both across the US and internationally. Lisa is passionate about land stewardship, giving back, and having fun. She is also trained as a NOLS Wilderness First Responder to help manage risks while kids play in the woods. During the school year, Lisa teaches Monday Adventures at Wildwood Academy in Hood River and Outdoor Fridays at Hood River New School. When she isn’t out on her bike, snowboarding, or surfing you can find her exploring the Columbia Gorge with her husband and daughter.
Stephanie Delgado
Stephanie Delgado grew up here in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge. She graduated high school early and spent the next several years living in Ashland, OR where she studied Environmental Science & Education. Over time, Stephanie started her own jewelry business and currently vends at the Hood River Farmer’s Market and other street fairs and markets.
For the past 9 years, Stephanie combines her background in environmental science, education and art in her current role as an art educator through Arts in Education of the Gorge.
She loves any opportunity to learn, teach and collaborate as she delights in connecting with the children in our community.
Tom Wooding
Tom is an enthusiast for adventure- the kind that calls for a strong social connection, awareness, and awe of the natural world and an expanded sense of self. He is actively involved in the leadership of youth sports in White Salmon where he lives with his two kids. As an athletic coach, he fosters team building and a risk-taking mindset for the players on and off the court. In his own time, you will find him exploring the mountains and rivers of the northwest with his family and friends. Tom passionately guides our Adventure campers where his endless stories and capacity for play are infectious.
Ruth Berkowitz
Ruth is a writer, mediator, lawyer, and adventurer. She loves challenges and is eager to take on projects huge or small, whether it's sailing with her family across the Pacific Ocean, fighting for women athletes, solving problems, or writing articles about parenting, food businesses, or adventures, like skiing across Finland. Ruth is the co-author of Kidding Around the Gorge-The Hood River Area’s Ultimate Guide to Family Fun. In her spare time, you can find her paddling on the Columbia River or cross-country skiing in the woods, always with a smile on her face.
Rachael Pecore-Valdez
Rachael Pecore-Valdez, MS (she/her), is an Environmental Scientist and Educator. Raised on a farm in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, she spent her after-school hours as a kid foraging for edible plants, salmon fishing and writing poems in tree forts. It is a joy for her to share the privilege of knowing nature as a place for sustenance, rejuvenation and reflection. Nature has also been a lifeline to calm and well-being for Rachael as a person with sensory sensitivities and ADHD. She believes nature connection is a vital tool for the mental health of all kids today, and draws from a trauma-informed, place-based and curiosity centered approach. Rachael joins us as an Explorer Camp guide. You can connect and learn about Rachael’s work at her website readingnature.com
Erin Fahey
Erin is a student of the living world. She loves adventuring, observing the movement of life and seasonal shifts, and working to build relationships of reciprocity with the land. She is grateful every day to be living and exploring here in the Gorge, on the unceded traditional lands of the Wishram, Wasco, and Celilo peoples. She is a willow basket weaver, natural dyer, herbalist, and dabbler who is always exploring avenues of connection with the natural world. She approaches learning and teaching with joy and curiosity and has over 10 years of experience as a land-based educator of children and adults. She has taught at several ancestral skills gatherings, worked for Rewild Portland, taught for Wildcraft Studio School, facilitated Outdoor School in the Gorge, and runs her own land-based craft workshops.
She works to support kids in feeling confident being outside, close to the land and strives to uplift their sense of belonging in this phenomenal living world that we are all a part of. Erin guides our Explorer Camps and co-leads the Forest Seeds class series
Margot Angstrom
Planted in the Rocky Mountains, Virginia native Margot, MEd, has educated children and adults for two decades, using an interdisciplinary and inquiry-based approach. A founding faculty of the Mountain Academy (formerly Journeys School) of the Teton Science Schools in Jackson, WY, Margot now forges school transformation with the Place Network. She develops innovative, place-based curricula that promote core academic content, design thinking skills and community engagement. As a coach, she provides teachers with the tools and training to leverage the power of place to drive student growth and learning. She is a leader in guiding students, both young and young at heart, to discover, inquire and act. Margot is co-author of Let the Kid Guide: Putting Nature Back Into Our Lives.
Evan Prairie
Evan Prairie was raised in north central Florida, where he developed a deep connection to nature through the prairies, swamps, and springs. His passion for craft and ancestral skills ignited when he attended camp with Eustace Conway at Turtle Island Preserve. Evan found his career niche as an instructor at White Pine Wilderness Academy, where he has been teaching nature connection through the lens of the 8 Shields for over five years.
In his free time, Evan enjoys wood crafting, foraging, and exploring with his spouse, dog, and their very new baby. He co-leads our Forest Seeds class series and teaches Explorer Camps, where he is well-loved for his infectious positivity, playfulness, and impressive skills in building huts, forts, and scout pits.