Daniel Egan Email & Phone Number

Branchville, NJ, US

Blairstown, NJ

Albany, New York Area

• Raised $70,000 in donations over 3 month period.
• Assist in planning/implementation of basic needs projects in Ecuador.
• Travel to music, yoga, arts & crafts festivals throughout U.S. to fund-raise for projects in Ecuador.
• Responsible for maintenance, inventory, accounting, and marketing during fundraising.
• Assist with content creation for website and social media.

Hardwick, New Jersey

• Designed and developed curriculum and trained new staff of Naturalists.
• Teach Ecology, Geology, Native American History, Astronomy, and Wilderness Survival through experiential education in an outdoor environment.
• Promote leadership skills, communication, self-esteem, and teamwork to groups (5th grade – adults) through GBI (Ground-Based-Initiatives), low rope, and high rope elements.
• Perform general repairs and maintenance to camp trails and footbridges.
• Constructed bear-proof composter to aid in establishment of compost program.

Running Springs, California

• Promoted from O.E. Instructor to Senior O.E. Instructor & Ropes Lead
• School Lead/Liaison between visiting school administration and O.E. instructors
• Trained new staff on teaching techniques for outdoor education and ropes course safety.
• Provided educational supplement to classroom-based curriculum with outdoor curriculum that meets California State Standards.
• Led nature lessons (4th-8th grade students) that include a wide variety of disciplines, including Natural History, Geology, Ecology, Freshwater Biology, and Astronomy.
• Ropes Lead responsible for overseeing proper belaying techniques of instructors, document and repair ropes course as needed, and perform high ropes rescues when necessary.

Kedougou, Senegal

• Created and facilitated the Peace Corps Senegal’s first co-ed sleep-away youth summer camp.
• Conducted comprehensive environmental survey of the community of Bembou.
• Conducted village by village census and bed count in preparation for mosquito-net distribution to prevent Malaria in partnership with NGO’s.
• Established an environmentally-focused youth club for primary school children. Projects included a vegetable garden, tree nursery and compost within the schoolyard.
• Led workshops with local women to teach organic gardening utilizing local materials and compost.
• Trained local teachers, farmers, and new PCVs on proper tree-nursery management.