Pamela Michael

Communications Consultant / Executive Assistant to Malcolm Margolin

Pam is a writer, education reform activist and radio producer who has spent decades working to integrate environmental and arts education into the lives of children and their communities. Co-founder, with Robert Hass, of the much-honored River of Words organization, her Watershed Explorer curriculum has been used to train thousands of teachers, park rangers, youth leaders and other educators how to connect kids to the natural world and to their own imaginations, inspiring them to create stunning art and poetry, and helping them to speak “the language of landscape.” She served as the organization’s executive director 1995 to 2016. In 2011, River of Words became the flagship program of the new Center for Environmental Literacy at Saint Mary’s College of California, which she also founded and directed until her retirement in 2016.