Emma Kate is an experienced early childhood and environmental educator who is devoted to sharing her passion for the environment with youth in order to create a more sustainable future through experiential education. She developed her deep love for the outdoors while hiking, camping, and spending time at Smith and Lay Lake in her home state of Alabama, where she received her Bachelors of Science degree with a major in Environmental Science at the University of Alabama in 2021. Throughout her career, she has worked with many conservation-based youth development programs as a summer camp counselor at the YMCA summer camp, a trail and forestry crew leader for TeamWorks, and most recently as an eeCorps Environmental Educator at Bluff Lake Nature Center in Denver, Colorado. Emma Kate has committed her career to increasing the accessibility of outdoor experiences for students of diverse backgrounds, and the mission that guides her career is to foster a sense of connection and belonging between students, their community, and the environment that surrounds them, as well as reinforce to them that they have a place in nature.

Emma Kate is a new mom to a beautiful baby girl! In her free time, she loves hiking, reading nature-based books, and spending time with her husband, daughter, and cats.