SCA Helps Lani Rosenthal Find her Passion

June 29, 2006. By the end of this summer, Lani Rosenthal’s high school career will have included a good dosage of SCA. Lani, 17, graduated Berkeley High School this year and completed her second year with the Conservation Leadership Corps.

“She is very comfortable outdoors and her enthusiasm is infectious” Jenny Seiler said of Lani. Lani has always loved nature and her experiences with SCA reaffirmed this love and taught her some valuable conservation and leadership skills.

For example, last summer she spent a month in Yosemite taking out invasive Himalayan blackberries and restoring social trails. One unexpected bonus to her trip was that it happened to fall on the annual SCA Board of Directors meeting. They were invited to join top SCA people, including founder Liz Putnam, for a fancy dinner, in their cleanest work clothes.

By the end of her trip she said she was close to most of the six people and two leaders on her crew. What she remembers most are the good laughs they had together: they used to ask random hikers and tourists where Up Doc was and of course, the desired reply, “What’s Up Doc?” always ensued in hysterical laughter, according to Lani.

Next year Lani will be packing her bags for Whitman College in Washington, where she plans on majoring in environmental science with a biology concentration, but not before she heads to Yellow Stone in Wyoming for her month long summer crew.

Lani intends to stay involved with SCA after High School, doing one of the many SCA internships, or leading a high school crew herself one day. You go girl!

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