Biocitizen NY is pleased to welcome Yubitza Bermudez as a Field Environmental Philosophy teacher! She’ll be co-leading Free Ranger walks starting mid October! Yubitza enjoys Chilean and US citizenship and trained in Ecotourism Studies at...Continue Reading
Biocitizen is so pleased to welcome Tamar Cox Rubien as an assistant Our Place Summerschool teacher! Tamar is a seeker of wisdom, cultural and ecological, and is looking forward to exploring New York City with...Continue Reading
Biocitizen is so pleased to welcome Blaze McClurkan—of Gowanus—as an Our Place Summerschool teachers’ assistant! Blaze was a counselor in training in 2019 who put on her walking shoes and helped us get kids off...Continue Reading
Biocitizen is so pleased to welcome Ezra Kohn as an assistant Our Place Summerschool teacher! When we first met Ezra, he told us about he worked a number of jobs teaching children, and that his...Continue Reading
Biocitizen is so pleased to welcome Charlie Schine as a lead teacher! Charlie is a Brooklyn native and presently teaches Field Environmental Philosophy at our Western Massachusetts school. He can’t wait to walk with students...Continue Reading
Job Opening: Our Place Summer School Director, New York City Status: 40 (full-time) hours a week (June 29-July 3, July 6-10, July 13-17, July 20-24, July 27-31, August 24-28, 2020); training begins January 2020 Time...Continue Reading
Bio Over the past few weeks, Ryan has joined the Biocitizen NY team as a volunteer for the Our Place Summerschool. He is currently entering his senior year of high school at the University School...Continue Reading
Biocitizen NY is so excited to introduce our very first intern, Stuart Robbins, who will be assisting with the Brooklyn-based Our Place Summer School by teaching, writing, and researching this summer! Stuart is currently in his...Continue Reading
Biocitizen is so lucky to have Brooklyn friends— parents who’ve enrolled their kids in our Western MA Our Place Summer School, so they can walk the Nonotuck Biome and get off the screen and into...Continue Reading
Biocitizen NY Summer 2020 Internship Program What is Biocitizen? Biocitizen is the only school in the world devoted to teaching Field Environmental Philosophy (FEP). Biocitizen NY is opening the Brooklyn-based Our Place Summer School designed...Continue Reading
Blaze is an 11-year-old from Gowanus, Brooklyn and will be a counselor in training with Biocitizen NY this summer! She started as a Sharpshin with Biocitizen MA and has grown into a leader. Read her...Continue Reading
Dear NY Families, We are pleased to announce that the Our Place Summer School SCHOLARSHIPS are officially available: The Our Place Summer School is designed to bring students into direct contact with the creatures, geologies, hydrologies, and...Continue Reading
Ursa Heidinger, Assistant Director of Biocitizen NY, here. I’m a senior at Columbia University in Manhattan studying political science and human rights, and this summer will mark my seventh year working with Biocitizen. ...Continue Reading
Hi! This is a note from Kurt Heidinger, Executive Director of Biocitizen. I’d like to explain how Field Environmental Philosophy (FEP) provides learning experiences that ramify and enhance traditional institutional and home-schooling education. – And...Continue Reading
Biocitizen is so pleased to welcome Ursa Heidinger as the Assistant Director of Biocitizen NY! Ursa has been a part of Biocitizen from the very beginning, and has taught Field Environmental Philosophy in Western Massachusetts...Continue Reading
Dear New York Friends, Biocitizen will conduct a soft opening during the summer of 2019 and is hoping you will be interested supporting us, and sharing our announcements, as we introduce our Field Environmental Philosophy...Continue Reading
