Natalie Gerum
Living and learning on the unceded lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw and the shíshálh swiya, Natalie (she/her) is the Director of Programs for Youth Climate Corps BC. She is thrilled to be working with the YCCBC team to engage the heads, hands, and hearts of youth across the province for meaningful climate action that matters to this moment on the planet.
Story
For more than 15 spins around the sun, Natalie has worked in K-12 classrooms, post-secondary campuses, and communities across Canada to lead the design, delivery, and assessment of initiatives in transformative experiential learning, youth leadership development, and creative community change.
She thrives when bringing together unlikely allies, and aims to ask better questions of how might collaboration, curiousity, and courage support systemic solutions to the complex social and ecological problems facing the planet. From lecture halls to lettuce fields, from the backcountry to boardrooms, from community halls to canoes, Natalie uses her skills in place-conscious engagement to root people in the processes – governmental, environmental, interpersonal - shaping their lived possibilities, and then builds joyful community through real, responsive, and resilient action. As she continues her own antiracist and decolonizing learning, Natalie is thankful to so many generous teachers and is committed to supporting teams in their growing orientations to justice and equity.
Natalie is grateful to be raising her two young children alongside her partner amongst salmon berries, cedar trees, and humpback whales, and spends as much time being in wonder and in play with the lands and waters of her bioregion as she can.
Contact
I'm always looking for new and compelling opportunities. Let's connect. info@youthclimatecorps.com