About Us

This training was created through the collective wisdom of a coalition of land & water stewards, Trauma Informed experts, social service providers and community members, dedicated to using Trauma Informed Care as a tool build an awareness of trauma in our workplaces and outdoor spaces 

These modules are intended for anyone that works in the environmental sector, from watershed council restoration managers to administrators at environmental non-profits, and for anyone who is looking for tools to better engage with unhoused people in the outdoors from park rangers, to landscapers

We are enormously grateful for the relationships developed over the course of this project, and for the shared wisdom and insights of our project partners, Trauma Informed Oregon, Łush Kumtux Tumtum Consulting, Bonneville Environmental Foundation, Right 2 Survive and all the incredible teachers highlighted below

Shilo George
Shilo George, MS (she/they) is a Southern Cheyenne-Arapaho and Irish/Scottish international speaker and owner of Łush Kumtux Tumtum Consulting. Her consulting work covers both trauma informed practices and how those practices align with and support anti-racist and anti-oppression work within organizations and communities. 

Trauma Informed Oregon
Trauma Informed Oregon is a statewide collaborative aimed at preventing and ameliorating the impact of adverse experiences on children, adults and families. For in person Trauma Informed Care Trainings, please visit TraumaInformedOregon.org

Sarah Jaquette Ray
Sarah Jaquette Ray is a professor of Environmental Studies at Humboldt State University, working at the crossroads of climate change, psychology, and environmental justice. In 2020, she published A Field Guide for Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet. She writes and speaks extensively on climate justice, climate anxiety and other environmental emotions. 

Tana Atchley Culbertson
Tana Atchley Culbertson is the Director of Network Coordination for Nesika Wilamut. She has worked for nearly two decades in youth education and career development in higher education and Tribal settings. An enrolled citizen of the Klamath Tribes who is of Modoc, Paiute and Karuk descent, Tana’s personal and cultural connections to rivers run deep.

Kas Guillozet
Kas supports PNW-centered collaboration, fundraising, and monitoring in service to watershed partners. She manages a dynamic team who build bridges and serve communities through streamlined native plant procurement, tree planting projects, climate adaptation, and Trauma Informed Care.

Hannah Buehler
Hannah (they/them) develops relationships with grassroots community partners to meet critical community needs around environmental justice, houselessness and hygiene access. They support partnerships with watershed councils and conservation organizations in tree planting and riparian restoration projects.

Ivan Tudela

Ivan is the Functional Assessment Service Teams (FAST) Coordinator at Pierce County in Washington, working to integrate equity and inclusion into all phases of emergency management to ensure that all members of our communities can respond to and recover from disasters and other emergency events. 

Lisa Fay
Lisa is a champion in the fight against disparity. She challenges tactics used to criminalize the most marginalized. Working with the knowledge and desire to educate against injustices, she works with Right 2 Survive, as its chairperson to educate the houseless about their civil, constitutional and human rights. 

Rebecca McCoun

Rebecca is the former executive Director of the North Santiam Watershed Council, leading the council following the 2020 Beachie Creek Fire. Rebecca is currently the Riparian & Aquatic Specialist at the Oregon Department of Forestry.

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