Staff
Railyard Stewards' Staff work with members of the community at the 2011 Harvest Festival coordinated with Jane Goodall's Roots and Shoots program. Photo: Katie MaCaulay, Roots and Shoots, 2011.
Carol Schrader, our Interim Director, is an educator and advocate for building community engagement in parks and open spaces. In her previous work as an environmental educator she helped coordinate the New Mexico No Child Left Inside movement. She has also taught English as a Second Language, GED prep and writing courses at SFCC and coordinated the college’s reaccreditation in 2001. In her spare time, she organizes her own neighborhood park group and the adjoining stretch of the Santa Fe River. She enjoys playing in the river with her daughter Ada. Carol has a Masters in multicultural education from the University of New Mexico and an undergraduate degree in Government from Harvard University.
Rachel Boothby, our AmeriCorps OSM/VISTA volunteer, has experience in community organization and non-profit management. She will work on our Connections Campaign, which is a new partnership between the Railyard Stewards and Santa Fe Watershed Association to promote watershed stewardship through collaborative programming. In a previous year of AmeriCorps service, Rachel fostered watershed awareness in Ouray and Montrose counties of Colorado by building trust and recognition of the Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership through educational events, volunteer workdays, and media presence. Rachel has her undergraduate degree in Arts Administration with a concentration in Public Relations from Simmons College, Boston.
Alanna Offield, our Program Coordinator, has worked with many local, state, and national organizations on issues of the environment and human rights and justice. A northern New Mexico native, she grew up farming with her large family in Pojoaque where her parents grew the majority of the family’s food source. She considers working with the soil and sustainable farming an important part of her heritage and cultural history. She works with the various school and youth groups that work in the park and coordinates workshops for the community. She is currently studying American Studies with a concentration in Southwestern Culture, Sustainability Studies, and Fine Art at the University of New Mexico. She hopes to continue on to law school and study environmental and water law.
