Augusto Medina, Ph. D.
Making EE Relevant for Culturally
Diverse Audiences Instructor
Email:
gmedina@niagaradsl.com
Dr. Medina serves as Project Manager for
the Environmental Education and Training Partnership (EETAP), a
consortium of organizations that are increasing the capacity of
education professionals to deliver quality environmental education
programs. EETAP is based at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens
Point. U.S. EPA’s Environmental Education Division and participating
partners fund EETAP.
Dr. Medina also served as the EETAP Project
Manager when it was based at the North American Association for
Environmental Education (NAAEE) in Washington, DC. Prior to that, he
was a Senior Program Officer with World Wildlife Fund. In that
capacity he worked with local governments, non-governmental
organizations, scientists, and educators to design and implement
conservation and environmental education projects in Latin America
and Caribbean.
Dr. Medina serves as the lead for EETAP’s
diversity activity, which produced What’s Fair Got To Do With It:
Diversity Cases from Environmental Educators
and a six-hour workshop that examines the intersection of
environmental education and diversity.
Dr. Medina is a past president and board
member of the North American Association for Environmental Education
(NAAEE). He is currently Co-chair of NAAEE's Diversity Committee. He
is on the editorial board of the Applied Environmental Education
& Communication: An International Journal
and served as a consulting editor for the Journal of
Environmental Education.
Dr. Medina holds a Ph.D. in Natural
Resources Management with a specialization in environmental
education.