Anna Sharratt
Executive Director, Free Forest School
The Basics
Company Name: Free Forest School
Location: Chapters in 100+ communities nationwide
Founded: 2015
Full-Time Employees: Zero; FFS is run by 700+ volunteers!
Products: Cooperative nature play chapters meet on public land to let kids play.
Social: Instagram
Claim to Fame: We’ll create 150,000 kid/nature experiences in 2019!
The Culture
The best thing about working here is:
Collaborating with a crew of passionate leaders; a social media feed full of adorable kids freely exploring nature.
When we’re not working, we’re:
Climbing trees and building forts.
What we’re reading:
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, The New Yorker, Tinman
What we’re listening to:
Code Switch podcast, Better Oblivion Community Center, the sound of birds returning to Minnesota
If they made a movie about our workplace, it would be called:
Working When We Can: Busy Parents Building a Movement
Inclusion in the outdoors matters because:
Time spent outdoors is essential to healthy childhood development. All kids deserve a childhood rooted in nature!
Five years down the line, it’s our hope that:
Public schools are on their way to making nature-based learning an integral part of the curriculum for every child.