This last August I was grateful to fill a newly created position at the North Cascades Institute, that of College Access Coordinator. The position was specifically created …
Read More of Youth Leadership Ambassadors: A Pathway For Youth
If you are new to or unfamiliar with the North Cascades Institute, there are a few bits of jargon that need to be explained: Western Washington University has …
Read More of An Open Letter to the 16th Cohort
Indira Mejia-Chavez was born in Mexico, but her mom raised her and her two younger siblings in the Skagit valley, where she lives today. Her first experience …
Read More of Path for Youth: Indira Mejia-Chavez
In the wintertime interim between teaching Mountain School in the fall and teaching Mountain School in the spring, graduate students in the North Cascades Institute Masters in …
Read More of Non-Profit Ninjas Slay the Behemoth
North Cascades Institute is excited to announce that Youth Leadership Adventures are now accepting applications for Summer 2014. This transformative program features a range of summer adventures …
Read More of Youth Leadership Adventures 2014: now accepting applications
They met on July 17, 2013, not quite sure what to expect. Six talented young women, all alumni of programs like North Cascades Institute’s Cascades Climate Challenge and North …
Read More of The Cedarosas Take On North Cascades National Park
ROBBY ASTROVE graduated from North Cascades Institute and Western Washington University’s M.Ed program in 2005 as part of the third Cohort of students. He is currently the …
Read More of Life after grad school for an environmental educator and naturalist
Twelve mismatched teenagers have just come off of their hardest life challenge — climbing Desolation Peak. Author Jack Kerouac made this summit in the North Cascade Range …
Read More of Hope is a barge of people on Ross Lake
[Mountain School has officially ended for the spring season! On Friday afternoon, Institute staff and instructors waved a bittersweet goodbye to 5th graders from Mountain View Elementary, …
Read More of The Gift of Mountain School
Written by former NC Wild Student and Remarkable Young Leader, Kassandra Barnedt The North Cascades – untouched, wild, remarkable, friendship, beauty, but most importantly life changing. Every …
Read More of Sharing My Love of the North Cascades
