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Northland College student Abby Keller and National Park Service mentor Caroline Twombly stand outside the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore

Women in Outdoor Leadership

March 9, 2018

…fierce advocate for women in leadership in the outdoors. Franz raised funds, including her own, among alumni and others who support the idea behind the Women in Leadership internship: having young women gain experience in natural resources management and interpretation, receive professional development, and receive leadership mentoring. And it’s already…

Northland College alum Audra (Jung) Willing installing solar panels on top of a roof.

Climbing roofs? No problem.

Audra (Jung) Willing '05 uses outdoor ed skills for solar design

November 12, 2018

After college, Audra (Jung) Willing ‘ 05 moved to Seattle to work for the National Outdoor Leadership School as a wilderness field instructor and later as a program supervisor for the mountaineering program. Without Northland, she says she would have likely lived a different life. “I didn’t even know what…

In Wildness and Wonder

October 26, 2017

…Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and the Lake Superior Watershed. With his wife Nicole, he has hiked, paddled, skied, and fished in many of our country’s awe-inspiring wild places, and both of their children experienced their first Boundary Waters canoe trip before they were six weeks old. Alan began serving…