Susan Leopold, Education Fellow. After graduating from Friends World College in 1996 Susan helped to start Costa Rican Adventure, an environmentally focused travel company for teenagers. Though she still stays involved in working with the Bribri, who live in the Talamanca mountains, she currently lives in Virginia where she founded the Indian Pipe Outdoor Technical School in 2000. The School is located on 280 acres adjacent to the Appalachian Trail and under conservation easement. The farm is a destination for school children to come and learn about native flora and fauna as well as methods of organic gardening. Susan has written a children's book "The Bulls Run to the Chesapeake", focused on the importance of headwaters, and is currently writing her dissertation at Antioch College on the Ethnobotany of the Bull Run Mountain for a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies.

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