Aleidria Lichau
Lead Sustainability Educator
Aleidria’s interests include providing education reform processes that build a bridge between the disparate values of the human and natural economies through education for sustainability. To achieve this Aleidria shifted from educating elementary students in the classroom to founding and running a non-profit organization, The Organization for Education and Science Integration (OEDSI) in 2003. Aleidria spent seven years experimenting with how to achieve education for sustainability within elementary schools. She facilitated pilot studies in the US, Vanuatu and Ecuador; developed three educational documentaries; provided in-school facilitation and training and developed an online program that provided access to over 20,000 schools worldwide through strategic partnerships. In addition to curriculum development, Aleidria experimented with various assessment processes for teachers and students in order to understand what best case practices would prove most useful in the classroom. In 2008 Aleidria entered a two year Master’s program in Community Development and Applied Economics at the University of Vermont and studied the design process of the first public elementary school in the nation to choose sustainability as a magnet theme.
