Project Leader, Shannon Y. Waldron

The first thing many people associate with Shannon Waldron is her freckles. She has an extreme passion for the outdoors which comes with a serious relationship to sunscreen. While she’s plays outside whether it’s recreating (bicycling) or working (farming) she will have green zinc oxide face paint and/or a weathered cowgirl hat on! Her core family lives in Chicago, Illinois which is where for the first 17 years of her life she was feed on delicious donna meals and dominated in numerous team sports. She then moved away from the concrete jungle to a little Appalachian college known as Warren Wilson College. At this magnificent mountain college she majored in Biology and Environmental Studies, but also got to a milk cow before classes, use a team of Belgium draft horses in a small logging operation, and in the evenings run around as the center midfield for the women’s soccer team. After learning sosososo much and graduating from college she moved out of the NC hollers to Washington State! Since the journey out west, she has been living up and down the west coast as close to the ocean as possible as well as even on the ocean! Up in the Bering Sea, Alaska. She is super pumped to move back "east" and live, work, and play with the DRC!