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	Tasha Purcell Director of Outdoor Programs and Student Leadership Training tpurcell@sbc.edu (434) 381-6369 Your dream trip with the Outdoor Program: Oh there are too many! I'd love to see a May-mester program where we take the classroom outdoors and explore and experience for a couple weeks! Outdoor goals: I'm dreaming up a Long Trail through hike!! What experience fueled your passion for the outdoors?: My experience as an instructor for the Sweet Briar Outdoor Program as a student! This is where it started for me and I am over the moon to be back working with the program as the Director.
Outdoor Programs Instructors

	Our staff page is currently a work in progress as we work to collect information about our new members. Please keep checking back for updated information!

	Alyssa Berkeley Instructor Major: Liberal Studies – Primary Education Hometown: Lynchburg, VA An accomplishment you are proud of: I'm proud of myself for coming out of my shell at Sweet Briar. Freshmen year, I was worried about not being around the same group of friends I grew up with and not finding a place/group at Sweet Briar like I had in marching band at home. I've learned so much about myself in the past two and a half years. I've become a leader in Outdoor Programs and several other groups on campus and met some of my best friends here. Your dream Outdoor Programs trip: Anything that involves traveling, rock climbing, and good friends.

	Grace Caskey Instructor Major: Engineering Hometown: Warwick, NY Your dream Outdoor Programs trip: To do a cattle drive out in the west for a spring break trip. Outdoor goals: Try everything at least once! What is your favorite outdoor location: The top of the mountain on Appalachian trail back in my hometown that looks out over the valley.

	Kate Macklin Instructor Major: Environmental Science Hometown: Seattle, WA What would be your dream trip with Outdoor Progams? A combination canyoneering/white water rafting trip on the Calorado. Share an accomplishment you are proud of: Last semester I studied abraod in Zanzibar, Tanzania and had a life-changing experience. What do you love most about being an SBC student? The community!

	Lauren Morgan Instructor Major: International Affairs Hometown: Lexington, SC What do you love most about being an SBC student? The entire experience from having 5 people in a class to going to the Dean's house for brownies and watching Modern Family. What do you love most about being an Outdoor Programs instructor? Teaching others and watching people realize they can do something they didn't think they could do.

	Victoria Litos Instructor Major: Liberal Studies - Education Hometown: Elizabeth, NJ What was your outdoors experience before Outdoor Programs? Not very much, but a curiosity for the outdoors Why do you think someone should go on an Outdoor Programs trip? They are epic!
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	Sarah Lindemann Office Manager Major: Environmental Studies Hometown: Manassas, VA Your dream Outdoor Programs trip: I would adore a trip to the Pacific Northwest, even though it's quite far away. It's one of my favorite places in the country! What do you love most about being an SBC student: I love the sense of community that comes with being a Sweet Briar student. I have had some awesome opportunities that I wouldn't have been able to have elsewhere, and the friends that I have made here are friends for life!

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Staff

Tasha Purcell

Director of Outdoor Programs and Student Leadership Training

tpurcell@sbc.edu

(434) 381-6369

Your dream trip with the Outdoor Program: Oh there are too many! I'd love to see a May-mester program where we take the classroom outdoors and explore and experience for a couple weeks!

Outdoor goals: I'm dreaming up a Long Trail through hike!!

What experience fueled your passion for the outdoors?: My experience as an instructor for the Sweet Briar Outdoor Program as a student! This is where it started for me and I am over the moon to be back working with the program as the Director.

Outdoor Programs Instructors

Our staff page is currently a work in progress as we work to collect information about our new members. Please keep checking back for updated information!

Alyssa Berkeley

Instructor

Major: Liberal Studies – Primary Education

Hometown: Lynchburg, VA

Your dream Outdoor Programs trip: Anything that involves traveling, rock climbing, and good friends.

Grace Caskey

Instructor

Major: Engineering

Hometown: Warwick, NY

Your dream Outdoor Programs trip: To do a cattle drive out in the west for a spring break trip.

Outdoor goals: Try everything at least once!

What is your favorite outdoor location: The top of the mountain on Appalachian trail back in my hometown that looks out over the valley.

Kate Macklin

Instructor

Major: Environmental Science

Hometown: Seattle, WA

What would be your dream trip with Outdoor Progams? A combination canyoneering/white water rafting trip on the Calorado.

Share an accomplishment you are proud of: Last semester I studied abraod in Zanzibar, Tanzania and had a life-changing experience.

What do you love most about being an SBC student? The community!

Lauren Morgan

Instructor

Major: International Affairs

Hometown: Lexington, SC

What do you love most about being an SBC student? The entire experience from having 5 people in a class to going to the Dean's house for brownies and watching Modern Family.

What do you love most about being an Outdoor Programs instructor? Teaching others and watching people realize they can do something they didn't think they could do.

Victoria Litos

Instructor

Major: Liberal Studies - Education

Hometown: Elizabeth, NJ

What was your outdoors experience before Outdoor Programs? Not very much, but a curiosity for the outdoors

Why do you think someone should go on an Outdoor Programs trip? They are epic!

Outdoor Programs

Staff

Sarah Lindemann

Office Manager

Major: Environmental Studies

Hometown: Manassas, VA

Your dream Outdoor Programs trip: I would adore a trip to the Pacific Northwest, even though it's quite far away. It's one of my favorite places in the country!

What do you love most about being an SBC student: I love the sense of community that comes with being a Sweet Briar student. I have had some awesome opportunities that I wouldn't have been able to have elsewhere, and the friends that I have made here are friends for life!

Outdoor Programs