Sandy Reed
Sandy has spent her life teaching, both outside and in the classroom. She loves to travel the world tracking and exploring. She is a National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellow and traveled to Antarctica as a Nat Geo Teacher Explorer in 2024. She has also earned several environmental teaching awards, the most recent being 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. She intertwines wildlife tracking into all it, including writing the lesson plans for the documentary “Earth Seasoned - Gap Year.”
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​In 2012, she made her first trip to South Africa and has been returning there, year after year, as an instructor with Original Wisdom, organizing and helping lead both student and adult groups interested in tracking, ecology and wildlife. In 2024, Sandy visited Namibia for the first time and fell in love with the Ju/Hoansi San Bushmen and the Kalahari. She is beyond excited to join the Tracking the Kalahari Instructor team for the 2025 Expedition. Meanwhile, she spends most of her free time tracking. She is a certified Track and Sign Specialist in the United States and also holds certifications in South Africa and Namibia. She loves Trailing and holds Level 3 certifications in both the United States and South Africa. She enjoys volunteering her time as part of the Outreach Committee for Tracker Certification North America. Sandy lives in both Ohio and West Virginia in the United Sates, with her husband, Cal, where they love spending time together hunting, hiking, fishing, camping and just being outdoors.