||| FROM ORCAS ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT |||
Lydia Dennee-Lee was born and raised in Olympia. She’s lived on Orcas full time for the past three years.
She started her undergraduate education as a marine biology student and came out of college with a Bachelors in Ecological and Social Restoration through Decolonial Actions. “The relationships and histories that shape our day to day experiences” have always interested her, and “both the garden and the children always have so much to teach me about our shared past and what we need to as a community to protect our future.”
Lydia always wanted to be a teacher, and the older she got “the more trouble I had fitting into the traditional school structure.” Art classes and science labs is where she felt at home.
Lydia appreciates “hands-on learning, outside time, and working with community members. She tries to approach life “inside and outside of work from the perspective of curiosity and expression and hope to bring this into my teaching and tending in the garden.
She believes that “lessons learned in the garden can be applied far and wide and I am incredible thankful and excited to be able to grow with and alongside the Orcas school community.”
