Member Bios

Brooke Mueller is from Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. She recently graduated from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire with a comprehensive major in Ecology and Environmental Biology. She has taken many classes to learn about plants, involving identifying, understanding their distribution, and their anatomy. Over the course of the summer she had an internship at the Cape Cod National Sea Shore as a coastal forest monitoring intern. She has also enjoyed the classes she has taken classes in the physiology of birds and mammals. The section on birds was most interesting to her and she has since taken a class on and has done her own birding. All of the classes she has taken involving biology and dealing with the environment have fed her excitement of the outdoors. Every since she was little, she has loved being outside and has found enjoyment in sharing that feeling with others.

Lauren grew up the woods of northern Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan in 2011 with an environmental degree. After graduation, she worked as a Teacher Assistant at the Greenspire School, a middle school focused on project-based learning and the environment. During the past three summers she was an Interpretive Park Ranger at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, where she particularly enjoyed working with school groups and Junior Rangers. She is passionate about the environment and loves being outdoors. Some of her favorite activities are backpacking, skiing, traveling, photography, cooking and running.

Alex Nawrot is a New Jersey native who recently graduated from Boston
University with a degree in Environmental Science. She has worked as a
children's program coordinator at Rutgers University's Botanical
Garden where she organized a community vegetable garden for local
urban youth groups. She also spent a summer as a research assistant at
an agricultural research farm specializing in pepper and tomato
hybrids. Her current interests include water resource management and
bioremediation. Alex plans on attending graduate school and continuing
her education in water diplomacy.

Hannah Colbert comes from Cornwall, Connecticut. She graduated from Bennington College last spring after studying Spanish, German, and translation. Growing up in the woods, going on family backpacking trips, and leading a college pre-orientation trip all led her to pursue outdoor leadership, and she is excited to learn more about environmental education. She hopes to combine her academic and recreational loves of translation and seasonal outdoor work in some symbiotic way. Apart from those she enjoys cooking, fencing, writing, and reading.

Danielle Bilecki is a recent Graduate from the State University of New York at Geneseo, with a major in Psychology and a minor in Environmental Science. She loves hiking, backpacking, kayaking, dancing and laughing. This is her second stint with the SCA, her previous being with a trail crew in Virginia where she did a great deal of rock work. Not only is she excited to get her hands dirty with some more trail projects, she is also pumped to start instilling a love for the out-of-doors in the classroom!