Jonee Brigham, AIA, LEED AP O+M, is a Senior Research
Fellow at the Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota working in
the area of Green Schools and Environmental Education. Based on her background
as a licensed architect and artist, she developed an art-led environmental
education approach called Earth Systems Journey, which is the basis for the
River Journey Case Study that will be included in the training, and was
previously applied at the pre-school/kindergarten level, and for second
graders. She has been a sustainability consultant, practicing school architect,
and a sustainable design researcher, instructor, and author. She has a Bachelor
of Architecture degree and an interdisciplinary Master of Liberal Studies
degree from the University of Minnesota. Jonee taps the storytelling-potential
of infrastructure to explore stories of human-nature interconnections.
Meg Cavalier, Ed.D., is
the Executive Director at River's Edge Academy, an environmental charter high
school in St. Paul, Minnesota. Before coming to River’s Edge, She was the
secondary principal at Bethany Academy in Bloomington, where she also taught
Life science, Earth Science, Chemistry and Physics. She has experience as an
Interpretive Naturalist at the Minnesota Zoo, Special Education teacher and
youth pastor. She is a licensed K-12 Principal and Superintendent and earned a
Doctorate in Education Administration from Bethel University. She also chairs
the Minnesota Green Schools Coalition Executive Committee. Meg is committed to
the environmental and experiential approach of River’s Edge Academy and how it
supports student growth and leadership.
Scott Freburg
works as a GIS Administrator for MN.IT Services at the Minnesota Department of
Education. He is a T3G 2014 alum and the Primary administrator for the ELA
contract providing free ArcGIS software to K-12 schools. He is also actively
helping schools get started with ArcGIS Online. He has been in the GIS field
for over twenty-five years and is currently a member of the Minnesota GIS/LIS
Consortium Board and the State GeoSpatial Advisory Board.
Len Kne, GISP is
the Associate Director of U-Spatial at the University of Minnesota and will be
the primary investigator by coordinating the workshops. He has collaborated
with several K-12 schools to introduce web mapping and spatial thinking by
hosting students at the University. Len brings extensive experience with GIS
and Information Technologies in higher education, construction, government, and
non-profit organizations to his work at U-Spatial, a center at the University
of Minnesota providing support for spatial activities. He is an alum of the
University of Minnesota with a BS in Recreation Resource Management (2005) and
Master of Geographic Information Science (2009). He is on the faculty of the
MGIS program and teaches project management, spatial databases, and a variety
of graduate seminar classes focusing on the use of technology in GIS. He is looking
forward to the day when everyone is thinking spatially.
