Donor Stewardship Coordinator
e-mail: amity[at]ofrf.org
Amity Vargas (she/her/hers) is a Colorado native however grew up on the West Coast, absorbing the gorgeous seaside solar. She has over fifteen years of expertise working throughout the nonprofit realm, specializing in environmental and social influence missions. Her work has included growth, programming, and operations. Amity has led applications that supplied watershed safety of the South Platte River within the South Park Nationwide Heritage Space, and she or he began the primary Farm to College program in Park County. She has taught environmental training to adults and college students from Pre-Okay by the twelfth grades, writing each standards-based and experienced-based curricula emphasizing mindfulness and a development mindset. Within the Entrance Vary, Amity has labored with all kinds of faculties and organizations, instructing the significance of environmental literacy by a program she began known as TREES – Instructing Accountable Environmental Schooling Abilities. By way of this program, she was in a position to begin a recycling program inside an elementary faculty within the Colorado Springs space, the primary of its variety inside that college district. Amity is working in direction of changing into an Herbalist and finishing her portfolio to develop into an authorized Environmental Educator.
Amity loves immersing herself in nature along with her household. They camp, hike, bike, snowshoe, raft and volunteer collectively to maintain trails clear. She enjoys gardening, cooking, studying, and writing. She performs the flute and is studying the guitar and melodica. Amity is a nomad at coronary heart and is devoted to being a lifelong learner.
