Kayla Carrington
carrinkay@gmail.com
Ph: (818) 370-1884
Enthusiastic and dependable human being with a warm and outgoing personality. Hardworking, quick to comprehend, and motivated leader with strong organizational and prioritization abilities. Intersecting art, activism, and environmental psychology to fuel an ongoing personal endeavor to work with community, children, and the environment in a healthy and active way.
University of Washington Class of 2018 GPA 3.7 Dean’s List all Semesters
Bachelor of Arts: Environmental Studies with Departmental Honors
Bachelor of Arts: Community, Environment, and Planning (CEP)
Minor: Education, Learning, and Society
Fall 2017
SIT Study Abroad: Australia: Sustainability and Environmental Action
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Spent a semester abroad in Australia studying environmental activist methodology and applications. Learned how to lead and organize protests, how to communicate with people with differing views, and how to practice mindfulness in nature to maintain level-headedness.
Fall 2016-present
Human Interactions with Nature and Technological Systems (HINTS) Lab
Undergraduate researcher with UW Professor Peter Kahn. Bikes to Fiddleheads outdoor preschool 2-3 times a week to gather data by video recording students in the outdoor classroom, organizes and assists with data coding, participates in weekly lab.
June 2016-August 2016
Islandwood Intern
Bainbridge Island, WA
Spent the summer in the woods on Bainbridge Island and was paired up with an instructor who took me in as their mentee. Together we ran day camps ranging anywhere from pre-k to ninth grade. Sixteen of us interns and mentors lived together in cabins just off the Islandwood campus for six weeks.