Olivia has been an avid outdoors-person, leader, and traveler since she was a little girl. She spent summers as a kiddo backpacking, biking, sailing, SCUBA diving, and snorkeling, and playing in every possible local stream and lake. Olivia graduated from the College of Charleston with a BS Anthropology and a double minor in Environmental Studies and Geology. Her education was intersectional and rooted in sustainability and systems thinking; learning about the relationships humans foster with the natural world and one another. She partook in study abroad programs in Ecuador & the Galapagos, South Africa, and Banff, Canada. After her undergrad, Olivia traveled to Northern Thailand to get her TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers Of a Second Language) Certification and worked as a facilitator and instructor for international students in Thailand, Laos, and Indonesia. Olivia then set roots outside of Aspen, Colorado where she was a ski instructor for 5 winter seasons. She has also led ARCC summer programs in Costa Rica and Bali/Sumatra, a gap semester program in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania, and a custom program in Arizona. Olivia is now based in Edinburgh, Scotland completing a Master’s degree in Outdoor Education at the University of Edinburgh and has just also just completed a Permaculture Design course. Olivia has a zest for life, travel, enjoys gardening, good food, and thoroughly enjoys dancing to live music.
