Staff
Zach Brown
Co-Executive Director
Zach grew up surrounded by the wilderness of Southeast Alaska. With parents in the National Park Service, Zach had ample opportunity as a boy to explore the mountains and...
Laura Marcus
Co-Executive Director
Laura is committed to a vision of education that integrates the active life with the life of the mind. As co-executive director of Tidelines Institute, she has worked with...
Tanner Horst
Good River Campus Director
Tanner is an educator who has worked at a variety of experiential and community-based schools as a teacher of manual skills, a maintenance person, and administrator. He is a...
Phoebe Martel
Program Coordinator
Phoebe grew up in rural Vermont. Homeschooled, she spent plenty of time exploring the secret streams, meadows, swamp, and forest around her childhood home. After graduating...
Bella Kirchgessner
Local Foods Educator
Bella is driven by a deep passion for reshaping our food systems towards justice and sustainability. A graduate of Kalamazoo College, where she studied Anthropology, Bella...
Kira Elliot
Garden Educator
Kira Elliott is a recent graduate of Bryn Mawr College with a BA in Political Science. Originally from Oregon, Kira loves everything to do with being outside. She is a deep...
Larry Landry
Maintenance Educator, Good River Campus
Larry and his wife Jen live a subsistence oriented life in Gustavus and operate a market garden from which they sell vegetables, berry preserves and herbal products to the...
Seth & Katie Michie
Inian Islands Campus caretakers
The Michie family are an outdoor-loving Alaskan bunch. Seth and Katie are new to Southeast, but have spent the last several decades exploring, studying, gardening, and...
Celia Silver
Teaching Fellow / Kitchen Manager
Celia is an alumna of the 2021 Glacier Bay Program and a recent graduate of Harvard College, where she studied History & Literature. She believes strongly in the power...
Deja Jarvis
Bookkeeper/Administrative Assistant
Deja spent her childhood near the very backyard of Alaskan wilderness that Tidelines Institute now resides. She is familiar with the Alaskan way of life and grew up on a...
Board of Directors
Jessica Lindmark
President
Jessica began volunteering for Tidelines Institute in 2013, a year before the organization received its 501(c)3 designation. Back then she was helping to coordinate speaking...
Dr. Amity Wilczek
Vice President
Amity is an evolutionary ecologist whose role as an educator and researcher has been shaped by attention to place, history, and student experience. Amity’s teaching career...
Rebekah Contreras
Rebekah Contreras works as the Administrative Assistant for the Huna Heritage Foundation. She is of Yupik and Caucasian descent and has been adopted into the Tlingit culture...
Jerry Dzugan
Jerry Dzugan moved to Sitka, Alaska in 1979 with only his BMW motorcycle and a backpack, after teaching history in inner city Chicago high schools for 8 years. Soon...
Elizabeth Hillstrom
Secretary
Elizabeth is a mechanical engineer in Juneau, AK, and a former Inian student and summer intern. She graduated with a B.S. from Stanford University, where she was first given...
Hank Lentfer
I believe the quickest way to connect with the land is to eat it. Gardening, hunting, and fishing transform food from groceries to gifts. Through writing, recording wild...
Shubhra Murarka
Shubhra is an alumna of the Arete Project’s 2016 Blue Ridge Session. She has stayed involved with the Arete Project and Tidelines Institute with faculty hiring and alumnx...
Alisa Regassa
Student Representative to the Board
Alisa is an alumna of the 2024 Glacier Bay Program and a recent graduate of Harvard College, where she studied Linguistics & Neuroscience, with a minor in Music. She is...
