Announcing Tori Heller, Gap at Glen Brook's New Director!
Spring is a time of growth and renewal, when the land wakes up with fresh opportunity. As we move into this brightening season, we give a hearty welcome and bid a fond farewell.
Welcome to Tori Heller, Gap at Glen Brook’s new Program Director!
Tori is passionate about facilitating transformative nature-based experiences with children and young adults. She came to Glen Brook with almost a decade of experience in outdoor education, most recently coming from Farm & Wilderness Camps as the director of Red Spruce Grove, a summer wilderness program for female and non-binary youth. Tori is a transplant to New England from the DC area, but after spending several years in the West and the South, there’s no place she’d rather be other than the Northern Hardwood Forest!
Tori is a graduate of Weaving Earth, a two-year nature connection mentoring program, and studied Place-Based Education at the University of Vermont. She is also a published singer-songwriter and loves sharing songs that bring people closer to the earth and one other.
Fare thee well to Jake Lewis, our Founding Director
From Jake:
After 8 years of rooting ideas and wonderings into the beautiful and fertile ground of Glen Brook, my family and I are taking up the call for our next adventure with full heart, great excitement, and some grief as we plan to move away from Glen Brook and towards something new.
This place and this program have been central pieces of my life, personally and professionally, for the last 8 years. What a privilege it has been to breathe life into my curiosities, my hopes for the future, my desire to make meaning alongside eager young people. To learn and to live, to work and to play, to struggle and to celebrate. I will miss it all, and am eager to see Tori lead Gap at Glen Brook into the next chapter.
My work here—and in so many ways, the life I've lived alongside it—is only partly mine. It has come to me from many, many others, for whom and to whom I am grateful. To the advisors, parents, and gappers who have made Glen Brook a part of their lives: I'm a better person for the knowing of you.
