Nathan Taxel, Cleveland, OH

Nathan’s first experience with SCA was in 2001 when he went to Petrified Forest National Park with the high school program at 16. Since then he has done a second high school program, an internship with the trails corps, and worked as a leader for both the high school and corps programs. All told, he was involved with eight programs, and says he has never been the same since. Somewhere in between all that, he graduated from Hobart College with a BA in political science and environmental studies. In the fall of 2008, he decided he was ready to end his wanderings (for the time being) and move back home to Cleveland Ohio where he is the Outdoor Education Coordinator for the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Now he takes the lessons in conservation and ecology that he learned with SCA and passes them on to students. He still gets to work outside some of the time, but sometimes wishes he had not traded in his tent and hard hat for a desk in an office, but at the end of the day, he is happy to be able to shower regularly and sleep in a bed. Email Nathan