Lisa Nehring is a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Education primarily interested in environmental education, place-based learning, and teachers’ and students’ outdoor experiences. She works as a research assistant for the Social Psychology in Education and the Environment lab and the Nobody Asked Me project at the School of Education. For her dissertation work, Lisa has partnered with Baltimore City Public Schools to explore teachers’ use of outdoor learning spaces for instructional time at schools. Before joining Johns Hopkins, Lisa worked as a science teacher in Brooklyn, NY and partnered with diverse organizations to support the idea of cities as classrooms. Her academic interests include: organizational theory, civics education, climate change literature, equity studies, and research issues in science.
