Program Coordinator - Outdoor Education & Trillium Programing
Ellen Tennis has over 20 years of teaching experience, encompassing a career filled with outdoor education, leadership training, ropes course facilitating, classroom teaching, and homeschooling. She has her Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Education, and taught middle school Language Arts for 10 years at St. Anthony School prior to homeschooling her own three children for the next 10 years. She also worked as an Outdoor Educator for 11 seasons in various capacities from Summer Camp Counselor, Environmental Education Teacher Naturalist and Director, to Ropes Course Coordinator.
She is currently employed with the Catholic Youth Organization as a Program Coordinator for Outdoor Education, designing and implementing creative, engaging, and academically rich outdoor, environmental, team-building, and leadership programming for Seattle area youth, young adults, and educators. Her work centers around providing the Seattle Catholic Schools with an unforgettable 3-day Environmental Education experience at CYO Camp Hamilton.