Conference Presenters 2025
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Alexis Burnett
Earth Tracks
Alexis Burnett is a Naturalist, Tracker, Herbalist, Wilderness Skills Practitioner and Canoe Guide who lives on traditional land of the Three Fires Confederacy, home of the Anishinabek Nation also called Grey County, Ontario Canada. He lives with his 2 kids on a small farm in the Owen Sound area, which is also home to Earth Tracks Outdoor School that specializes in connecting people to nature and forming a deep relationship with the earth. Alexis holds a professional level track and sign certificate through CyberTracker North America.
Kim Cabrera
Kim Cabrera has been learning tracking since her father first showed her snake and coyote tracks. Tracking has been a major part of her life. She has Specialist certificates in two biomes and enjoys learning from trackers from all over the world.
Asaf Ben David
Ph.D. Student at the zoology school of Tel-Aviv university. A member of the Wild track research group. The author of the Israeli track and sings field guide and the founder of Makommifgash.org, the leading community of wildlife trackers in Israel.
Tanya Diamond
Pathways for Wildlife
Wildlife Ecologist, GIS Analyst, and Co-owner of Pathways for Wildlife, Tanya has been working in the field of wildlife connectivity for the past 17 years. She began her career studying American badgers in the Greater Bay Area of California and has since expanded her research to include overpass planning and wildlife crossing projects throughout California and eastern Nevada. Currently, Tanya is certified as a Level 3 Tracker from CyberTracker North America.
Bob Etzweiler
Vermont Wilderness School
Bob Etzweiler is a longtime teacher at the Vermont Wilderness School, leading both youth and adult programs. He runs their annual Lynx Tracking Expedition, Wildlife Tracking Apprenticeships, and the Hunter’s Heart Hunting Apprenticeship. Bob has over fifteen years of experience learning and teaching Wildlife Tracking and is Specialist certified in Track & Sign. He’s a skilled and passionate tracker and teacher.
Dani Freund
Trent University
Dani Freund is a PhD student at Trent University in Ontario, Canada where she’s investigating how predation by wolves and bears on moose impact moose populations. She just finished her masters at University of Minnesota studying wolf predation on beavers and fish. Dani loves swimming outdoors and painting the wildlife that inspire her research.
Dan Gardoqui
Lead With Nature
Dan Gardoqui has been practicing and sharing tracking skills for over 35 years. He is a registered Maine Guide in hunting and recreation, a certified bird guide and wildlife tracker with a passion for bird language and natural history. Dan serves on the CWTA committee and has been an advocate for tracking certifications since first hosting one in 2007.
Daniel Hansche
Spur Wander & Tracker Certification
With over 25 years’ experience, Daniel (they/he) is a CyberTracker Track & Sign Evaluator with TCNA and is certified on three continents. Having contributed to hundreds of wildlife trackers’s intense growth, Daniel’s artistic approach to mentoring brims with curiosity and creativity, which is especially apparent in their signature offering “Tracking & Perception.” Spur Wander offers high-quality experiences to wildlife trackers worldwide.
Nate Harvey
A Tracker’s Trail & Tracker Certification
Nate Harvey is a CyberTracker Evaluator for TCNA in both Trailing and Track & Sign Identification. Additionally, he teaches Trailing in workshops near his home in southern Vermont and around the country. Please visit trackerstrail.com to contact Nate and for more information about him and his work.
Shane Hawkins
Shane Hawkins is a lifelong nature enthusiast and holds TCNA Professional and Specialist Certification in Wildlife Track & Sign and NYS Master Naturalist Certification. She serves on the TCNA Board of Directors and Certified Wildlife Trackers Association (CWTA) Committee.
Lonner Holden
Lonner Holden was first exposed to animal track and sign as a young child, learning directly from the animals how to avoid moose attacks while walking to school and home in rural Alaska. Learning that “tracking” was actually a “thing” 15 years later, he began studying in human tracking lineages, now teaching tracking and bird language to the public in wild, rural and urban environments. A master healer, writer, speaker, storyteller, and group facilitator, Lonner supports changemakers in realizing their fuller potential through innovative and transformational nature-based programs. For more information, email connect@connectionwave.net or visit ConnectionWave.net.
Terry Hunefeld
Terry Hunefeld took his first TCNA Track & Sign Certification in Southern California in November of 2020. By March of 2025, he earned Professional Certificates in the San Diego Desert and New Mexico and his Specialist Certification at the Allegheny Mud Flats. He will share the strategies he uses to prepare for TCNA Certifications anywhere in North America.
Ann Hunkins
Ann Hunkins is an online masters student in environmental studies at Prescott College, AZ, living in Jacona, NM. Ann has been obsessed with animal tracking for over fifteen years and is now very excited to be researching badgers for her thesis. She holds a desert Track & Sign Specialist and a Trailing Level III. She runs New Mexico Tracking Club, teaches tracking workshops in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, and operates game cameras for Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve, Santa Fe County Open Space and the Santa Fe Watershed Association.
Kersey Lawrence
Original Wisdom
Kersey Lawrence (PhD UCONN, Natural Resources; Land, Water & Air) teaches ecological literacy globally through the art and science of wildlife tracking, for which she is certified at the highest levels through CyberTracker Conservation. Her research focuses on the social and ecological connections that the tracking process organically and holistically promotes, which she describes as “the ecology of tracking and the culture of trackers.” Her research and instruction blend scientific methods with local wisdom to enhance our understanding of nature. Kersey’s goal is to make people more observant and passionate about our environment, nurturing skills that make them responsible custodians of the Earth.
Sophie Mazowita
Tracking Connection, Cold Hollow to Canada, Tracker Certification North America
Sophie Mazowita is a consulting naturalist, educator, and certified Wildlife Track & Sign Specialist based in northern Vermont. She works to build awareness of wildlife track & sign for habitat conservation, ecological understanding and personal connection. She teaches and consults through her Tracking Connection business, directs a wildlife monitoring program for Cold Hollow to Canada, and also teaches wildlife biology at the University of Vermont. She serves as Operations Manager for Tracker Certification North America and founded the Certified Wildlife Trackers Association.
Sandra Mitchell
Sandra Mitchell is a Master Maine Naturalist, Registered Maine Guide, Wildlife Photographer, and lover of all things with fur, feathers, scales, or plates. In her “second career”, she spends her time tracking, stalking, looking for, and sometimes making friends with the wild ones that call Maine home.
David Moskowitz
David Moskowitz is a certified Senior Tracker and a Track & Sign and Trailing Evaluator here in North America. He works in the fields of photography, wildlife biology and education. He is the photographer and author of three books: Caribou Rainforest, Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest and Wolves in the Land of Salmon; co-author and photographer of Peterson’s Field Guide to North American Bird Nests; and photographer of Big River: Resilience and Renewal in the Columbia Basin.
Bob Ollerton
Southwest Wildlife Online Tracking Training
Bob Ollerton is the founder of Southwest Wildlife Online Tracking Training. He received the Track & Sign Specialist certification in San Diego County in 2020 and Tracker III certification in South Africa in 2016. Bob has an M.S. in Software Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School.
Juarez Pezzuti
Although he has been working with Local Ecological Knowledge (LEC) for 30 years, Dr. Juarez Pezzuti first became interested in tracks and traces in 2013, when he began accompanying subsistence hunters from the Xingu basin on forays into the forest, with the aim of observing the signs they were able to detect. In 2014, he learned about the work of Colin Patrick and had the opportunity to meet Louis Liebenberg. Since then, he has dedicated himself to carrying out wildlife surveys in the Amazon in partnership with experienced hunters, but always without a certified mentor. As a result, they rely on the concept of Cultural Consensus, as described by Liebenberg (2021). In 2022, Juarez had the opportunity to spend three weeks with Kersey Lawrence and Lee Gutteridge, which greatly contributed to his training and performance. He holds a Level 2 in Track & Sign according to the CyberTracker standard.
Christine Phelan
Christine Phelan is a Field Biologist with Home Range Wildlife Research and graduate student at the University of Washington, where she is researching the movement patterns and habitat use of Canada lynx as they hunt and travel in landscapes affected by large-scale wildfires. Formerly, she worked as an animator and game developer with companies such as Valve, Double Fine Productions, and LucasArts Entertainment. Christine’s interests include understanding animal behavior through movement at the individual and landscape scale, exploring creature biomechanics and locomotion in the physical and digital world, and figuring out what critter pooped in the woods.
Sage Raymond
University of Alberta
Sage is a committed and long-time nature nerd, having worked throughout British Columbia as a wildlife technician, and bear-viewing guide. Sage is now a grad student at the University of Alberta, using tracking as method to study various aspects of coyote ecology, then ultimately use animal behaviour to promote human-wildlife coexistence in cities. Life is good.
Rob Rich
Rob Rich is a field ecologist who provides inventory, research, and monitoring services to document and protect biodiversity. He focuses on the use of wildlife tracking and other noninvasive methods to support the needs of sensitive and keystone species, most often through projects with birds, beavers, and carnivores. Based in northwest Montana, Rob also provides custom training for individuals or groups who are keen to learn wildlife tracking and field ecology skills.
So Sinopoulos-Lloyd
So Sinopoulos-Lloyd (they/them) is a queer Greek-American environmental educator, wildlife tracker, and anthrozoology graduate student whose work explores the confluences of animal behavior, perception, and semiosis (meaning-making). So is interested in how the cognitive and perceptual systems of animals (including humans) interact with, and get shaped by environments. So utilizes track, sign, and trail interpretation as a tool for fostering increased awareness of the perceptual and sensory worlds of other species.
Ahíga Snyder
Pathways for Wildlife
Wildlife Researcher and Wildlife Crossing Fund Advisory Member, Ahíga is certified as a level 2 tracker under Casey McFarland. Ahíga created Pathways for Wildlife with co-owner Tanya Diamond, a private business that works with various organizations, land trusts, state, and federal agencies in the field of ethology and road ecology. Ahíga’s mission is to connect, and protect habitat for wildlife connectivity, and identify important areas for wildlife safe passages across roadways.
Nyn Tomkins
Dr Nyn Tomkins is a naturalist, anatomy enthusiast, chiropractor, bodyworker and wildlife tracker. She’s a graduate of Wilderness Awareness School’s nine-month Immersion program and Tracking Intensive program. She is deeply interested in the story our bodies, in particular our bones, can tell about how we live and relate to the world. She is passionate about teaching anatomy and physiology as a way to help other people relate to and connect with our other than human kin.
Joy Wang
Joy, Muqing Wang is a certified tracker, photographer and educator based in Shanghai. She appreciates both the abundant scientific information revealed through tracking, and the poetic quality of transient and permanent traces as animals’ form of language and artmaking. Currently, she is working on compiling tracks and sign knowledge of animals in China.