Sandy Reed

Sandy Reed

Tracking Intensive Program Coordinator, Instructor

Sandy Reed is a retired schoolteacher, having taught Science, STEM and Environmental Education for 36 years. She created the STEM Expedition program in which students earn high school science credit for tracking and trailing in the bush in South Africa. She is a National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellow and traveled to Antarctica as a Nat Geo Teacher Explorer in 2024. She was also Nat Geo Inquiry Ambassador for the state of Ohio. In 2017, she wrote an environmental curriculum to go with the documentary “Earth Seasoned – Gap Year.” She has earned several environmental teaching awards including the Franklin Soil and Water’s Conservation Environmental Educator of the Year in 2024 and the Green Difference Award in 2017, recognizing her as one of the top Outstanding Green Educator Program Directors in the country.

Sandy is currently an instructor with Original Wisdom where she organizes programs, often based on wildlife tracking and bushcraft, both in the U.S. and Africa. She was a wilderness skills instructor and director with Coyote Trails School of Nature for over 10 years where she taught earth based living skills to both children and adults. She is currently a Level 3 Wildlife Tracker in both the U.S. and South Africa, certified as such through Cybertracker. She recently earned her Specialist Track and Sign certification in the U.S.

Sandy enjoys volunteering her time as part of the Outreach Committee for Tracker Certification North America. She has been hunting for over a decade now and focuses on deer and turkey which she and her husband process themselves and use to feed their family and friends. To her, hunting is not a sport or activity. It is a philosophy for living one’s life. She is proud to have made her own bows and has hunted successfully with them. She loves to combine the skills of tracking, trailing and hunting into a way of living with the earth. Sandy lives in both Ohio and West Virginia, with her husband, Cal.