Foundation Selects Global Sustainability Teachers for 2024-25

The Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of three teachers to lead the Global Sustainability Project in school year 2024-25.

Jennifer Walters, an Advanced Placement Biology teacher and Kimberly Rapp, an AP Environmental Studies teacher will co-lead students from Corona del Mar High School. Because of their outstanding performance in co-leading a group of Global Sustainability scholarship students in 2016 to South Africa they were awarded “Star” status and invited to participate again.

Michelle Brislen, an International Baccalaureate Marine Science Teacher at San Clemente High School, will also design a local conservation project and select a conservationist as a co-leader. Ms. Brislen is an award-winning teacher with a passion for leading her students on ocean and land ecology expeditions.

The teachers will organize and help lead local conservation research or conservancy service projects with 10 of the best and brightest students from their schools.  After completing 40 hours of community service, the teachers, conservationist and students will embark on 9-day research expeditions to study the felines and primates of the Pacuare Reserve on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica under the auspices of Ecology Project International, the Stewards of the Reserve.  The junior year students will study the habitat of jaguars, howler monkeys, white faced capuchins and spider monkeys, as well as leatherback turtles and agami herons.