Staff Bios

Casey Nutt TrackersSF Project Partner, Shipwhright- Casey developed a love for sailing, fishing, camping and building in his early years. As a teenager Casey designed and built an arsenal of non-lethal weaponry and ran strategic urban battles with his highschool cohorts. After leaving home Casey roamed the earth studying Boatbuilding, Permaculture, Primitive Skills, and Martial Arts. Casey has since led many teen adventure camps, combining hard skills, and creative problem solving to build team awareness and self-confidence in stressful situations. Casey has worked as an independent shipwright for many years and is excited to teach boatbuilding in tandem with these other skills. But his true passion is wandering.

Kevin Feinstein TrackersSF Project Partner- Kevin, formerly trained as a writer and filmmaker, has been learning the ways of a naturalist for 8 years. His knowledge includes permaculture, sustainable gardening, and a number of primitive skills, although his main areas of expertise are plants and food (especially wild food!). A student of traditional nutrition, Kevin has been managing a school garden program for 3 years, where he connects children to their food and to the natural world. Holding a Masters degree, Kevin has taught classes at the Regenerative Design Institute, published a number of articles, and maintains a blog on related issues at feralkevin.com

Wendy Furry TrackerSF instructor– Wendy is a seasoned science teacher
who loves a good adventure above all else. She spent her younger years tromping the woods of Pennsylvania, and her older ones wandering the mountains of California. She has led young people on explorations all over the world, and here in the Bay Area. Wendy holds a certificate in Wilderness Skills from Earth Skills School, including tracking animals, fire-making, shelter building, edible and useful plants of California. She is certified at a Health Care Provider level in First Aid, and both adult and child CPR. She has recently begun her medical training towards becoming a Nurse-Midwife.

Kirsten Anderson TrackerSF instructor– Kirsten Anderson is a lover of outdoor sports, travel, music and the arts. As a youngster, she was biking long distances with her father, swimming, hiking the Appalachian Trail, paddling rivers of the southeast and sailing her family catamaran. Kirsten is fluent in Spanish and has traveled extensively, including a year long solo trip around the world at age 17. She is a lover of arts & crafts and enjoys making anything with her hands. Since 2004, she has produced her own line of handmade jewelry. Kirsten earned her Multiple Subject Bilingual Teaching Credential from San Francisco State University in 2003 and taught 2nd & 3rd grade students for three years. She brings patience, nurturing and an ability to meet an individual's needs even in a large group setting. Kirsten's goals include laughing, growing her own food and building community.

Jared Francois Vaughn Childress TrackersSF Instructor- Jared is breed and spread in his wild, wild east-bay hometown of Canyon CA. (population 250). He fancies himself as Woodsman and a Waterman in some company and an Applied Ecologist around others. Daily he finds himself building with local natural materials, hunting for elusive mushrooms, planting fruit trees, playing with fire, and loving the ocean. He has worked and taught in a variety of roles including tallship sailor, natural builder, 3-5 grade outdoor instructor, and wildland firefighter/ EMT. His favorite constellation is Orion, his mascot is his dogs, and if he ever gets around to starting an oldtime band it will be “the poison oakee boys.”

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