Our Team
Leadership and Administration Team
Kendra Penry
Executive Director
director@logannature.org
Kendra Penry joined Stokes Nature Center as the Executive Director in 2019. She holds a B.A. in International Studies from Hollins University in Roanoke, VA, and an M.A. in International Affairs from the George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Prior to her current role, Kendra worked in the nonprofit field for many years, most recently as the Community Engagement Coordinator in Houston for Heifer International, a nonprofit dedicated to ending hunger and poverty and caring for our earth. She was also privileged to work for organizations such as Houston Rescue and Restore Coalition and the Mississippi Consortium for International Development, and one year as an AmeriCorps Service Fellow with the Colorado I Have a Dream Foundation in Denver, CO.
Kendra loves to get outdoors with her husband, Allen, and adorable supermutt named Tekoa. She enjoys just about all things outdoors, including long distance running, cycling, hiking, and camping.
Kendra is the 2021 recipient of the Nat Frazer Environmental Education Leadership Award from the Utah Society of Environmental Education for her outstanding work at Stokes. She was certified as a Utah Master Naturalist in 2022 and loves to explore nature everywhere she goes.
Kate Hunter
Director of Education
education@logannature.org
Kate Hunter is a PhD candidate at Utah State University, specializing in bee health and behavior. She earned her B.S. in Animal Ecology/Biology from Iowa State.
Kate grew up in beautiful Golden, Colorado. As the daughter of an engineer and a project manager, she loves connecting to people through their projects and goals.
Kate’s hobbies are numerous. She likes to hike, ski, mountain bike, run, backpack, and rock climb. Her first love, however, will always be Ultimate Frisbee. When she's either nursing an injury or too exhausted, she likes to knit, crochet, and sew. She finds great joy in turning unlikely objects into useful clothing, such as a wind breaker she made from a tent her friend found in Right Hand Fork.
View her personal website detailing some of these unique projects and hobbies at: https://sites.google.com/view/kate-hunter/home
Sadie Enright
Nature Preschool Director sadie@logannature.org
Sadie has been our Nature Preschool Director since starting the program in the fall of 2013. She is currently the program director and one of the lead teachers. Her credentials include a B.S. in Biology and a B.S. in elementary education, both from Utah State University. She has also earned a CDA (Child Development Associates credential) through the Council for Professional Recognition.
Sadie has lived in Cache Valley for twenty years. She has a husband, two daughters, an orange cat, a black dog, lots of chickens and a great big garden. Her favorite activities include spending time outdoors with her family, running, biking, hiking, camping, cooking, fishing and cross-country skiing. And teaching preschool, of course!
Sadie’s fascination with the natural world has inspired her to find a career in which she is able to share her love of nature with her preschool students, preschool families and her own family and friends as well.
Carlos Ramos
Facilities Director
Carlos has lived in Logan, UT for 6 years. He is a forestry engineer who graduated with an associate degree and a B.S. from the National University of Forest Sciences (UNACIFOR) in Siguatepeque, Honduras. He also holds an MBA in Business Administration with a focus on finance from the Catholic University of Honduras.
Carlos has worked in many forestry roles including forest extension, fire protection, reforestation, creation of forest nurseries, management of broadleaf forests and pine forests, forest inventory, plant taxonomy, wildlife management and water quality. He was a professor in Environmental Science at the Metropolitan University of Honduras for more than 11 years, both in person and virtually. Additionally, Carlos has worked as a sales and marketing consultant in different international companies.
Carlos enjoys outdoor activities such as hiking, mountain biking, birding, camping, and forest species recognition. He is very interested in the prevention of climate change and the search for strategies to reduce its causes and effects. He firmly believes education is the basis for environmental change and a cure for an ever-deteriorating planet.
Bookkeeper
Chad Tilley is our Stokes Nature Center bookkeeper.
Nature Preschool Team
Kathy Campanella
Nature Preschool Lead Teacher
kathy@logannature.org
Kathy Campanella has been a Lead Preschool Teacher at Stokes Nature Preschool since 2015. She brings Montessori experience and early literacy to the nature-based program. She loves working with young children and is passionate about nature.
Kathy earned a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from Utah State University. She went on to raise two boys, work as a Reading Tutor for Cache County School District, and has over ten years of preschool teaching experience from Valley Montessori School in Logan, UT where she was also the Assistant Director. Kathy is originally from Sault Ste. Marie, MI. She resides in Nibley, UT with her husband and cats and enjoys spending time with her family, hiking, gardening, and cross-country skiing.
Talor Hall
Nature Preschool Teacher
talor@logannature.org
Talor is happy to be part of the team at Stokes Nature Center. Born and raised in Utah, her family took many opportunities to go hiking and camping all across the state (and many other states, too).
Talor is a “four seasons” girl who loves to get outside no matter the weather. She rediscovered her passion for sharing her love of science and nature when she became a mom. She loves hiking, camping, swimming, and paddle boarding with her husband and three children.
Stacy Banks (she/her)
Nature Preschool Teacher
stacy@logannature.org
Stacy started as a Stokes Nature Preschool Teacher in 2023. She was introduced to Stokes through its community snowshoeing program and was hooked on the Stokes experience after successfully tapping her own maple trees following their annual workshop.
Stacy has lived in the Bahamas, Illinois, Japan, California, and Utah. She currently lives in North Logan with her husband and three children. She earned a B.S. in Health Sciences from Brigham Young University and an M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction from Seattle Pacific University.
Stacy is passionate about using children’s literature and hands-on activities to encourage natural curiosity and learning.
Ewa Wilczynski
Nature Preschool - Music Teacher
Ewa (eh-vuh) earned a master’s degree in Music Education from Marie Curie University in Poland. She obtained Orff-Schulwerk Teachers Training Certification (Levels 1-3) from USU and completed the International Summer Course 2014 at the Carl Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria.
Ewa is an experienced preschool music teacher, teaching flute, piano, and music theory for over 30 years in Poland, New Jersey, and Utah. She is currently on the faculty of the Youth Conservatory at Utah State University and serves as director of the Cadenza Choir in the Cache Children’s Choir. She teaches music classes for the Stokes Nature Preschool and offers private lessons in her studio. She is also a founder of the program “Music for the Small and Tall” which teaches early childhood music and movement.
Ewa is a member of the Utah Flute Association and serves on the board of the Utah Chapter of the American Orff Schulwerk Association.
School and Community Programs Team
Greta Wilkening (she/her)
Naturalist Educator - Schools and Outreach
schools@logannature.org
Greta Wilkening joined the Stokes Nature Center team in 2022 as the Naturalist Educator for School Programs. Greta is a midwest native from Minnesota, and a graduate from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI with a B.A. in Environmental Studies. Previously, Greta has worked as a land manager in Two Rivers, WI, a program assistant for Heckrodt Wetland Reserve, and an educator/naturalist for the Jay C. Hormel Nature Center in Austin, MN, where she also learned how to handle and care for raptors.
She enjoys birdwatching, camping, hiking, and anything that will get her outdoors, as well as drawing and painting in her spare time. During her undergraduate studies, she had the chance to study climate change in Dakar, Senegal in West Africa and collaborated with the Senegalese Ministry of the Environment to explore sustainable waste management systems in Dakar.
Athena Madsen (she/her)
Community Engagement Specialist
community@logannature.org
Athena recently joined Stokes Nature Center as Community Engagement Specialist. She attended Weber State College where she received her Associate of Arts (a long time ago), and got an A+ in her wilderness survival class for starting a fire with a bow and drill and making biscuits from cattail flour served with wild rosehip jelly...to show up 'the boys from the football team!' (just because she could and they couldn't). She returned to school after raising her family, taking care of grandchildren and parents, multitudes of critters, gardens and a farm, and moving more than 30 times and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2021 from Dixie State College.
An avid thrift shopper she has worked in thrift and gift store management, for several museums in Utah, garden centers. as a Bed and Breakfast Innkeeper/Gourmet Breakfast Cook, in fashion merchandising, and as a professional seamstress. She has taught art and music both privately and in various educational settings, and loves to combine her love of nature, art and teaching through Nature Journaling, and volunteering at Jump the Moon Community Art Studio/Gallery.
Her hobbies (when she finds the time) include: reading and writing, music, sewing, quilt making, baking sourdough bread and walking.