Molly is a first-year master’s students in the Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management program at Penn State. Molly (she/they) was born and raised in California. She received ecology and environmental degrees from UC Santa Cruz. Molly spent the last year in Yosemite National Park, where they have gotten to see the impact nature has on people and people have on nature firsthand. Her passion for outreach and experiential learning has pushed her into working with middle schoolers as an environmental educator, where she has gotten to see amazing changes in students. Molly is looking forward to diving deeper into our impacts on protected areas, and what we can do to minimize them. Her goal is to work with NPS to continue to provide life changing outdoor experiences, while also reducing impact on the land via leave no trace principles and decreased sound pollution.