Ethan Burke, Lead Educator

Ethan previously co-founded BioTour with ACE Educator Alan Palm. BioTour is an environmental education program and adventure that travels the United States on a recycled vegetable oil and solar-powered school bus. The program has reached 46 states and held more than 120 educational events at colleges, K-12 schools, and conferences. During the 2008 election season, BioTour was on the campaign trail with two buses and 13 crew members, promoting environmental sustainability through active democracy.

Ethan graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2006, earning a B.A. in history and economics, summa cum laude. He studied in England for the Oxford Summer Seminar and traveled to nine countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America on Semester at Sea. Ethan also served as a Faculty Advisor for the National Youth Leadership Forums on Law and Medicine.

Ethan strives to promote a healthy environment and a just and prosperous society. His passion is exploring, whether it be geographic landscapes, cultures, ideas, athletics, music, art or some other aspect of this fascinating existence.

Sophie Korn, Educator

Trained educator, amateur naturalist, and joy and justice advocate, Sophie Korn, has a story which starts in Los Angeles, California but bounces between coasts thereafter. Most recently, she worked as an Environmental Educator at the Children's Nature Institute in Los Angeles, using nature as a tool for fostering creativity, discovery, independence and respect while developing social and academic skills. She graduated with her undergraduate degree in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University in May of 2008. Where, besides learning how to crack crabs, she studied with particular engagement the sociology of education, political movements and culture in America and abroad, as well as fun things like astrophysics and biological anthropology. Her focus on education and youth empowerment as the path to social equality started with action in high school and was nurtured by her studies at Hopkins, where she taught third grade in a Baltimore City Public School. After graduation she headed back to her favorite city cloaked in smog to pursue a Masters of Arts in Teaching Social Studies as the Leo D. Buscaglia scholar at the University of Southern California. She is also an avid consumer of revolutionary art, music and movies, tasty cooking, spontaneous camp outs and lots of books (with and without pictures).