Jacob Yoder Email & Phone Number

Santa Cruz, California, United States

Portsmouth, NH

Outfitting customers with high quality technical equipment and apparel for outdoor adventures and travel of all types. Guiding people through the process of preparing for wilderness expeditions, international travel, and exploration of new hobbies. At EMS we provide gear and knowledge to make self sufficient adventure possible, so that people can reach.

Manchester, New Hampshire

As a City Year Corps member I tutor and mentor inner city elementary school students in Manchester New Hampshire. I provide academic support and behavioral counseling to fifth grade students who are struggling in the classroom. City Year targets low income areas to provide extra support in school, so as to combat the heightened drop-out rates in high.

Old Main Library, SUNY New Paltz Campus

Tutoring various anthropology courses to students of all levels. The courses I assist with include General Anthropology, Human Evolution, Biological Anthropology, Transcultural Health, and other Anthropology courses. I help students with study skills, note taking, test prep, understanding material, and constructing charts and other study aids.

New Paltz

As the student assistant to Lisa Mitten, the SUNY New Paltz Campus Sustainability Coordinator, I collect data to assess the sustainability of the SUNY New Paltz campus, and lead campaigns to improve it. I work with faculty to come up with plans for furthering all kinds of sustainability related efforts on campus. I attend committee meetings monthly to.

As founder of the Young Heroes club, I created a New Paltz branch of the nonprofit organization Young Heroes, which supports orphans in Swaziland, Africa who have lost their parents to AIDS. I have seeked out and organized a team of members and trained others to become leaders themselves. We have organized events using venues in the village of New Paltz.

As president of the Outing Club I organized a vast array of outdoor trips and apply for funding from the school to make them free or very affordable for students. I raised the club up from a loosely organized handful of people to an organized and consistent group of leaders who receive professional training and provide services for the rest of the student.

I helped to design and direct an outdoor education program for groups of anywhere from 8- 20 summer campers from inner city areas, ages 8-16. This included overnight trips and lessons in various outdoor skills, self sufficiency, and leadership skills. I also served as counselor when not leading program. This experience involved round the clock availability.

Cleaned up the beach at Pinewood lake in Trumbull, Connecticut early in the mornings and made sure it was safe for beach-goers that day.