EENM Staff
Jordan Bosiljevac
Coordinator
Albuquerque
Jordan (she/her) is a proud New Mexican born and raised in Albuquerque. With a background in college access, teaching, and farming, she believes deeply that some of our most precious learning comes from the land itself.
Jordan graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a BA in International and Intercultural Studies and Spanish, and subsequently spent a year in Mexico on a Fulbright Scholarship. Since then, she has served as Associate Director at Breakthrough Santa Fe, and then as a Farm educator at Reunity Resources. Additionally, Jordan has collaborated with land-based nonprofits in Northern and Central NM, including as a fellow with the NM Coalition to Enhance Working Lands. She is thrilled to work with EENM as a Coordinator to advance the organization’s mission of ensuring equitable access to the outdoors for all NM youth.
Board of Directors
Our volunteer board sets the course for EENM and connects us with our community. As advocates for environmental education, they do strategic planning, goal-setting and fundraising. Board members serve for two-year terms. If you are interested in learning more about the board, please contact us.
Amanda Keith
Board Chair
Albuquerque
Amanda Keith (she/her) has served as EENM’s Board Chair since January 2025. She is based in Albuquerque and most recently served as Executive Director for the Public Lands Interpretive Association – a nonprofit that partners with the Bureau of Land Management and the USDA Forest Service in the Southwest. In this role, she led the organization’s vision and operations for its bookstores, campgrounds, and education programs. Previously, Amanda worked as Marketing and Communications Manager for the Public Lands Alliance – a national association that connects public lands nonprofits and advocates for public lands partnerships.
She grew up in Ohio and started her career in grassroots advocacy, education, and local watershed management efforts. She graduated from The College of Wooster with a degree in English and Environmental Studies. She is an avid gardener and is currently an Intern with the Albuquerque Area Extension Master Gardener Program.
Shantini Ramakrishnan
Vice Chair
Las Vegas, NM
Shantini (she/her) builds capacity of New Mexican youth to lead the conservation of local landscapes through the Conservation Science Center @ Highlands University, based at the New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute. She develops place-based outdoor learning programs to build pathways in STEM disciplines, which combined with mentorship, leadership development and resilience strategies, encourages persistence among students of color in STEM. She has been working in northern New Mexico since 2012, and has experience in protected land management, habitat restoration, disease ecology, and community engagement. She holds an MS in Life Sciences with a concentration in Biology from New Mexico Highlands University, a BS in Zoology from Southern Illinois University, and a BA in Mass Media from Mount Union College. She serves as a board member with the High Plains Grasslands Alliance and Hermit’s Peak Watershed Alliance, an outreach committee member with Albuquerque Wildlife Federation, and served in the inaugural cohort of Fellows with Environmental Education New Mexico.
Shelby Bazan
Secretary
Albuquerque
Shelby Bazan (she/her) was born and raised in Albuquerque and has a great passion for the city, land, and culture. She is currently an environmental educator with the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program (BEMP) and a volunteer outings leader with Latino Outdoors NM. In her free time, you can find Shelby crafting, concert going, bird watching, and spending time with her cat, Lilith. She’s excited to join the EENM Board of Directors and learn from this experience. Shelby was part of the 2021 EENM Fellow Cohort.
María Leonor Rodríguez
Board Member
Santa Fe
María Leonor Rodríguez (she/her) was born and raised in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and often daydreams about the ocean now that she lives in New Mexico. Early on, María discovered her love for the outdoors and learned how shared outdoor experiences could help build positive and powerful communities. These experiences and communities led her to pursue work in environmental and ecological programs across New Mexico, Idaho, Chile, and North Carolina. Through her work, María grew passionate about creating culturally-relevant programs to strengthen connections to land and inspire long-lasting environmental change. Currently, María works as an Education and Outreach Manager for Quivira Coalition, where she designs and implements educational programming, facilitates regional network building, and develops one-on-one relationships with farmers, ranchers, and land stewards. In her free time, María volunteers as an outings leader for Latino Outdoors, creating opportunities for Latino communities to enjoy nature as a safe, inclusive, and welcoming place. María is excited to continue supporting environmental education in New Mexico to create more equitable and accessible opportunities for all.
Marcella Talamante
Board Member
Dulce
Marcella (she/her) is a Native New Mexican. Many of her core memories were made spending time with family and friends while enjoying and appreciating nature. She has high regard for sustainable practices which support the wise of use natural resources, while preserving culture, history, and language of our communities. Marcella strives to promote and provide an inclusive, learning environment where youth and adults gain confidence to take positive risks, and dedicates her efforts in providing educational opportunities to assist in improving communities. She is an experienced educator, knowledgeable in non-formal, hands-on, experiential educational experiences, and has a deep-rooted passion for education and providing opportunities for others to gain knowledge and skills to help improve their lives and quality of living.
Marcella served as an Extension 4-H Youth Development agent and Associate Professor at New Mexico State University for thirteen years, before joining the Dulce School District in August 2022, as the Community Education Liaison. She strives to be a highly productive, strategic planner, and organized project leader; creative and resourceful problem solver with the ability to adapt to changing demands. Marcella embraces diversity and draw upon personal lived experiences to support the successes of other.
Susan Schipull
Board Member
Albuquerque
Susan Schipull (she/her) is the Garden Resource Teacher for Albuquerque Public Schools. She is the former garden elective teacher for Wildcat Blooms Garden at Wilson Middle School. Susan is currently part of the APS Outdoor Learning Team who works with teachers in all grade levels and capacities to create spaces and places for students and teachers to learn outdoors. In 2022, the Outdoor Learning Team secured funding for transportation to get every APS third grader out to the Los Padillas Wildlife Sanctuary located at Los Padillas Elementary School. Susan was part of the 2021 EENM Fellow Cohort.
Susan grew up on a farm in Iowa and always enjoyed helping on the farm and taking care of animals as a kid. She now experiences nature by biking, hiking, running, and fishing. Susan began teaching 30+ years ago in southern Arizona as a high school biology/chemistry teacher. She has also been at At-Risk Coordinator and an administrator during her career. Teaching and gardening has brought Susan back full circle to her agricultural roots. She believes that children should put down their devices, get outside and explore the natural world every day. She has witnessed how a garden can provide opportunities for students to learn, make discoveries, self-regulate, and find their strengths.
SamJean Simmons
Board Member
Las Cruces
SamJean (she/her) has spent the past 8 years working in conservation of public lands and youth development in New Mexico. Working with Conservation Corps New Mexico, primarily focused on developing career pathways for young adults and connecting people to lands.
She is also a co-founder of a girl’s empowerment program called the Whiptail Trails Club that over the past 3 years has served New Mexico youth by providing environmental education and accessibility to public lands in their community. As an artist by trade, she contributes her professional accomplishments in the non-profit scope to the creative process, and finds ways to use her background in visual arts in her teachings of the natural world and culture. Southern New Mexico is her home. Her greatest joy is her family and raising her son in the Chihuahuan desert riding ditches, camping, hiking trails and rock hounding.