Samantha Wilde is a maker and educator based in the Comox Valley, BC.

Samantha grew up on Vancouver Island, and is old enough to have some stories to tell. She’s jumped onto a moving train and has the bite marks on the ticket to prove it. She knows enough Spanish to get by in a small Mexican fishing village when the trailer blew a leaf spring. She knows where to find excellent fish sandwiches in Istanbul. She’s spent many hours standing at payphones calling home. She feels very lucky to live where she does.

She strongly believes that all education has value, regardless of academic merit, and that every experience we undergo helps to shape our worldview and corresponding actions. She is interested in reciprocal, experiential and kinesthetic learning processes, creativity and making, consciousness, and opening doors to deeper connections with the natural world.

She holds a Master of Arts in Environmental Education & Communication through Royal Roads University, her thesis focusing on experiential / kinesthetic learning (learning through doing) and how hands-on activity can change the way we both perceive and act in the world.

Samantha loves to garden and cook and sew, to mend and thrift, to dive and hike, and she loves getting creative with whatever's to hand. She’s a mother of two and conceived of One Wild Earth as a way to bring some positive, creative energy to her world and theirs.