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Laura Menyuk
After 3 years teaching literacy in D.C., Laura Menyuk moved outdoors and into the experiential education “classroom” at the Echo Hill Outdoor School on the Chesapeake Bay. Since leaving DC in 2009, she has trained in leadership development, team-building, facilitation, food justice, and environmental education around the US and the world so that she could bring that knowledge home. During that time, Laura experienced the magic of the farm as classroom: a place for STEAM education, social science, history, place-based knowledge, personal growth, teamwork, personal connection to our most basic resources, and hands-on learning. She landed in Baltimore via Public Allies, an AmeriCorps program, and remained at the Pearlstone Center in Reisterstown as program coordinator and farm-educator for 4 years. Raised bilingual in one of the most diverse regions of our nation, Laura has always sought to uplift the rich diversity which makes up the fabric of a resilient and just global society. She looks forward to building that society with the students of Baltimore City, literally from the ground up.