Alyssa Aldaz
Education Manager
Alyssa Aldaz (they/she) is a well-versed outdoor science education professional with 7 years of experience in designing, coordinating, and facilitating hands-on, NGSS-aligned, inquiry-based educational experiences to students that historically and currently face barriers to the outdoors. With a bachelor’s degree in biology Alyssa acquired a unique perspective on science education through their participation in various marine science in-field research projects. This perspective allows them to design and facilitate high quality hands-on field research programming at Crystal Cove Conservancy for our K-12 students.
Through their experience in both traditional and outdoor education, Alyssa connected with the transformative impact of outdoor learning and the opportunities it provides students that a classroom cannot. Alyssa has had the pleasure of instructing grades K-12 outdoors in a diversity of formats, ranging from marine ecology interpretive education, to teaching on trail at a residential outdoor science education program in the Angeles National Forest, to leading field science weeks and backpacking trips in the Pacific Northwest. Alyssa connects strongly with students who come on our programming, some of whom come from disadvantaged, inland areas where they grew up. Alyssa is passionate about facilitating students’ connection to marine ecosystems while empowering them as environmental stewards and scientists through research-based marine education programs at Crystal Cove Conservancy.