Board of Directors
The primary role of a Board member is to guide the strategy of the NOLS Employee Association. Board members participate in ongoing conversations, as well as monthly meetings. We represent the creative ideas and pressing concerns of NOLS employees to the Board of Trustees and Executive Team.
Anna Santoleri (she/her)
Anna started her NOLS journey in 2019 as an IC student. Prior to that, she worked as an outdoor educator and classroom teacher in a number of places, including Yosemite, Malaysia, a Massachusetts women’s prison, Yellowstone, and a high school in Chula Vista, CA.
She came to NOLS for the technical skills; she’s stayed because of the invaluable adaptive/interpersonal skills she’s learned along the way.
To her, working with the NEA is a way to put these skills into practice: actively listening to better understand employees’ experiences, creating a vision based on what she’s seeing and hearing, and collaboratively enacting this vision to achieve a common goal with those in and beyond the NEA. Outside of NOLS, Anna is an avid gardener and plant mom.
NEA President
NOLS Field Instructor, Program Supervisor out of the Rocky Mountain Branch 
Sanjana Govind
NEA Vice President
Field Instructorcoming soon…
Physically in Lander, Wyoming but always day dreaming about a better world for all. After a summer semester in 2005 at the RM, she was enthralled with NOLS, the mission, the people and the work being done for experiential education as well as the environment. She was lucky to score a seasonal job at the TVB during the summer of 2006.
Since, Aila has held several in-town roles at the RM and HQ. After a decade hiatus she is back in the Gulch helping get tasty rations into the field, but always looking at ways the systems can be improved.
MBA, M.Ed Elementary Education RM Rations Team
Aila B. (she/her)
Bryan is based in Lander, WY by way of many places. He has had previous ‘careers’ in the US Marine Corps, teaching skiing and snowboarding in Colorado and a short stint reading books to kindergarteners in Florida... this was his favorite job by far.
Bryan began his NOLS journey as a Wilderness Medicine and Rescue Semester student in 2017 and took his IC in 2018. Bryan’s favorite place in the Winds is in the East Fork Valley and his favorite trailheads to drive to are up Union Pass in the Winds. But, for Bryan, the canyons are the most special place to go. bryansarg@gmail.com
Field Instructor, Bus Driver, In-Town Pinch HitterBryan Sarg (he/him)
Ellie Rabinowitz
Field Instructorcoming soon…
Born and raised in Santiago de Chile, David is now based in Coyhaique, Aysén Region (Chilean Patagonia). He discovered NOLS in 2015 through a Semester in Patagonia course, made possible by NOLS Patagonia's scholarships for Chilean students.
After working as a geologist, he left the industry over ethical concerns to pursue something more meaningful. Since starting as an IIT in 2018, he's worked mainly in hiking, mountaineering, and climbing, recently moving into a program supervisor role at NOLS Patagonia and NOLS Rocky Mountain.
He sees the NEA as a bridge between international staff and the US-based NOLS community. Outside NOLS, he's learning new instruments and speaking Spanglish with the world
Patagonia & Rocky Mountain Program Supervisor and Field Instructor
David Valenzuela (he/him)
Griffin Leemon
Field Instructor
Lily is based in Lander, WY and works at NOLS HQ in the Custom Education department. She grew up in Southern California and got curious about NOLS after her sister returned from an expedition in the Winds.
She made her way to Lander in 2023, with plans to just stay for the summer. Surprise, surprise - the community and the mountains convinced her to stay! You can find her around town playing pickup volleyball, riding her bike, watching the USWNT, or skiing poorly in the winter.
Client Service Manager
Custom Education TeamLily Zino (she/her)
coming soon…
Micah Rarick
coming soon…
Field Instructor
Trisha Domenie (she/her)
Trisha is based in New England, where she took her first wilderness medicine course as a teenager. She came to NOLS through the ITC in 2018. Beyond her official work as an instructor, she loves to visit the NOLS branches and be immersed in the magic of those communities.
Trisha spent over a decade working as an outdoor leader and educator, primarily with children and adolescents. Later, she switched gears to healthcare, earning first her WEMT, then RN. She currently works both in the hospital and as a summer camp nurse when she isn’t teaching for NOLS.
trisha_cloutier@nols.edu
Wilderness Medicine Instructor