Katya Schloesser

Katya Schloesser is the co-lead of the Education & Engagement team, and a curriculum developer and program manager at the Center for Education, Engagement and Evaluation (CEEE) at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder). She is currently leading the Hazard Education Awareness & Resilience Task Force project. Before joining CEEE, Schloesser was most recently a middle school earth science teacher at Gunnison Middle School. Before becoming a classroom teacher, Schloesser worked for the CU Boulder Office for Outreach and Engagement, where she managed the Learn More About Climate program. Additionally, she managed education and outreach for a multidisciplinary research project on hydraulic fracturing, the AirWaterGas Sustainability Research Network. She earned her Master of Arts in geography at CU Boulder, studying alpine hydrology, and her Bachelor of Science in environmental science and Bachelor of Arts in Latin American studies at the University of New Mexico. She’s a passionate educator who seeks to support K-12 educators to teach research-based, hands-on, engaging climate science curriculum.