Our Team

Becca Katz
Co-Founder, Executive Director, & Instigator of Awesomeness
Becca has been a nature-based educator for over two decades. Prior to starting Good Natured Learning, she worked with Lake County School District and Get Outdoors Leadville! to integrate nature-connected learning experiences, retool and design school systems to support learning outdoors, and implement professional development workshops for educators to add nature-based learning practices to their teaching craft. She loves how simple nature-based learning practices – from bringing more plants into your classroom to teaching students in nearby nature – can yield such profound effects like improved wellness and increased engagement. Becca holds a B.A. and M.S. from Stanford University. More important than any degree, Becca has learned from, with, and in nature over hundreds of days-and-nights spent camping and traveling in the Wilderness with students, friends, and family. With GNL, she's excited to focus on how nature connections can be integrated and integral to teaching and learning in schools. Becca adores connecting with people to talk about almost anything, especially about NBL. And, because she always has more words, she writes a newsletter: Learning, by Nature.

Dr. Trevor Soponis
Chief Learning Officer
Trevor is a life-long education professional with extensive experience in leading transformative education projects involving school, district, state, and university partners. His dissertation, entitled "How do you make an environmentalist?" focused on youth learning experiences in nature. Not surprisingly, he's deeply aligned with the mission and vision of Good Natured Learning.
Our Board

Spings Akumah
Member of the Board

Cathy Jordan
Member of the Board

Mike Munoz
Member of the Board

Ochi Boaz M.
Member of the Board

Tafara Muwandi
Member of the Board

Michelle Ndebele
Member of the Board

Khadija Fuad
Member of the Board

Eric Laurits
Member of the Board