Deia Schlosberg grew up in the woods of Upstate New York. Since then she has earned degrees in Earth & Planetary Science as well as Visual Communications at Washington University in St. Louis. She has volunteered in Europe and Africa, worked as an environmental educator in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and in Montana, and has worked as a senior field instructor for a wilderness therapy school in the Colorado Rockies.  Deia is also a published illustrator, photographer, designer and writer.  Deia is the first woman to walk the length of South America south of the equator, for which she was awarded the National Geographic Adventurer of the Year award in November of 2008. Deia is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Science and Natural History Filmmaking.   She also has a wilderness first responder. 


Please contact Deia at:
Deia@connectingthegems.org