Environmentalist Educator Outdoorsman
Working at the intersection of education, land stewardship, and lived outdoor experience.
About Will Parish
Will Parish is a science educator and environmental leader whose career spans education, law, aviation, and energy development.
For more than 15 years, Will taught environmental science and civics in San Francisco public schools, and later founded Ten Strands to support environmental learning across California’s education system.
Today, his work continues to focus on connecting people to the natural world through education, outdoor experience, and long-term environmental stewardship.
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IHAN deploys a statewide network of licensed integrative health practitioners directly to fire stations and base camps — bringing specialized, trauma-informed care to firefighters and the communities they protect facing a California wildfire season that grows longer and more destructive every year.
TenStrands strengthens the partnerships, strategies, and systems that advance environmental literacy, ensuring all California TK–12 students thrive in sustainable, resilient schools and engage in meaningful environmental learning experiences, both in and beyond the classroom.
“The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost a crisis of thought, values, perception, ideas, and judgment. In other words, it is a crisis of mind, which makes it a crisis of those institutions which purport to improve minds.”
— David Orr, Writer