Mel Barrett

David Bardon

Hometown of Camden, ME

Instructor since 2007

Fun Fact: David is a Latin Mass Catholic.

Bart Blankenship

Hometown of Palmetto, FL

Instructor since 1994

Fun Fact: Bart likes rowing his dinghy with homemade oars.

Jamie Bowen

Hometown of Indianapolis, IN

Instructor since 2012

Fun Fact: Jamie was once in a French horn quartet competition. 

Ben Branson

Hannah Brock

Hometown Stuart, Florida

With HIOBS Since 2017

Fun Fact: In college I taught hip hop fitness classes at the school gym.

Sarah "eSBee" Buhlman

Hometown of Marriottsville, MD

Instructor since 2012

Fun Fact: When not instructing at HIOBS, eSBee teaches health & sex-ed, algebra, and micro-anatomy to high schools students in Portland, Maine.

Katie Burkley

Hometown Columbus, OH

With HIOBS Since 2017

Fun Fact: A fun act is that bumble bees take naps in flowers. Aren't they just so cute.

Alex Busack

Nicholas Canaparo

Hometown Lafayette, California

With HIOBS Since 2017

Fun Fact: I can recite the entirety of The Princess Bride.

Julia Carleton

Hometown of Camden, ME

Instructor since 2003

Fun Fact: Julia met her future husband working for HIOBS!

Laura Carson

With HIOBS Since 2016

Lia-Lucine Cary

Hometown of Stuart, FL

Instructor since 2015

Fun Fact: Lia-Lucine’s goal is to find massive amounts of treasure so she can spend her time collecting stories, studying archaeology, inventing things, playing accordion, and pursing hobbies.

Paul Chatelain

Hometown of Cape Cod, MA

Instructor since 2012

Fun Fact: Paul extensively researches the permeability of a variety of waterproof products.

Wendy Cirko

Dana Crane

Hometown of Brunswick, ME

Instructor since 2011

Fun Fact: Dana plays roller derby.

Janny Daniels

Hometown of Franklin, VA

Instructor since 2008

Fun Fact: Janny has sailed through the south end of Greenland.

Robbin Dilley

Hometown of Southwest Harbor, ME

Instructor since 2010

Fun Fact: Robbin has run 2 marathons.

Peter Donati

Hometown Hooksett, NH

With HIOBS Since 2017

Fun Fact: I used to be a professional forklift driver

John Donovan

Hometown of Hanover, NH

Instructor since 1976

Fun Fact: John skippered a 35' sailboat on two short-handed transatlantic crossings.

Sam Eakle

Hometown of Oakland, CA

Instructor since 2012

Fun Fact: Sam majored in the history of art and visual culture at UC Santa Cruz.

Craig Emmes

Hometown of Eugene, OR

Instructor since 2013

Fun Fact: Craig rode his bike across the country when he was in college --4200 miles in 70 days!

Annie Fagan

Hometown Camden, Maine

With HIOBS Since 2017

Fun Fact: Annie can wiggle her ears and eyebrows at the same time.

Hannah Flagg

Hometown of North Fryeburg, ME

Instructor since 2015

Fun Fact: Hannah believes in the power of nature.

AJ Frithiof

Hometown of Pensacola, FL

Instructor since 2006

Fun Fact: AJ has spent hours with friends looking for moose in Maine over a number of years but has yet to see one. She’s not convinced they actually exist there.

Norman Greenberg

Hometown of Baltimore, MD

Instructor since 2000

Fun Fact: Norman was a semi-pro Adventure racer for 7 years.

Trisha Haitz

Max Harmon

Erika Hartman

Beth Jackson

Hometown of Bloomington, IN

Instructor since 2007

Fun Fact: Beth once had a dog that would steal Halloween candy and hide it under pillows. She never opened the candies so it was like getting presents all the time!

Ben Jacques

Hometown of Springfield MA

Instructors since 2012

Fun Fact: Ben is a birder and enjoys watching and listening to different bird species in different habitats.

McKenzie Kimball

With HIOBS Since 2017

Fun Fact: McKenzie has a collection of dinosaur zipper pulls on her jackets and likes to look for puffball mushrooms and berries while hiking. 

Mary Kinney

Elisa Knapp

With HIOBS Since 2017

Fun Fact: Two weeks is the longest I've gone without eating ice cream!

Phoebe McGuire

Hometown of Evergreen, CO

Instructor since 2013

Fun Fact: Phoebe has sailed across the Atlantic Ocean.

Cal McKnight

Hometown of Tallahassee, FL

Instructor since 2008

Fun Fact: Cal once lived in the US Virgin Islands and worked in EcoTourism.

Rachel Milito

Hometown of Cranston, RI

Instructor since 2013

Fun Fact: Rachel is fluent in Spanish and has lived in several Latin American countries.

Allie Miller

Hometown of Dartmouth, MA

Instructor since 2014

Fun Fact: Allie has built a few wooden canoes.

Mike Miller

Hometown of Richmond, VA

Instructor since 2013

Fun Fact: Mike is a retired engineer. 

Nate Miller

Hometown of Emmaus, PA

Instructor since 2008

Fun Fact: Nate is in a band called Thick Knuckles.

Emilee Monson

Kelsy Morganwalp

Hometown of Herndon, Virginia

Instructor since 2009

Fun Fact: Kelsy owns over 100 pairs of socks!

Ken Olivier

Hometown of Ouray, CO

Instructor since 2013

Fun Fact: Ken lived on a sailboat as a small child with his twin sister and family.

Luke O’Neill

Hometown of Gloucester, MA

Instructor since 1990

Fun Facts: Luke also serves as Program Manager for Outward Bound Peacebuilding’s Emerging Leaders Program—an intensive leadership development program that brings together both Israeli and Palestinian leaders ready to challenge themselves with a 10-day Outward Bound expedition in Croatia. The expedition is the first step in a multi-year involvement designed to build, strengthen, and reinforce connections and inspire personal development. . . . Oh—and he has also enjoyed soaring through the air on the flying trapeze for over 20 years.

Andrew Pape

Hometown of Wellsville, NY

Instructor since 2011

Fun Fact: Andrew bought a 28' William Atkins Sloop which he sailed to Virginia, and in summer 2016 will sail back to Maine to live-aboard between courses, and while course directing.

Anna Parker

Hometown of Lexington, MA

Instructor since 2014

Fun Fact: Anna learned MIG welding basics—even though all the gloves were many sizes too large!

Whitney Pander

Suzanne Newsom Pierce

Hometown of Newry, ME

Instructor since 1990

Fun Fact: Suzanne was a bank manager before becoming an Outward Bound instructor.

Meganne Radway

Hometown of Newry, ME

Instructor since 2015

Fun Fact: Meganne recently trained for her first Triathlon and hopes to compete in many endurance races.

Jeremy Reinerston

Assistant Instructor

Hometown: Springfield, IL

With HIOBS Since: 2018

Fun Fact: 

Jeremy once wrote a novel which featured a house full of talking furniture, a journey to the underworld, and one very bad haircut. He is still dealing with the aftermath.

Maddy Riker

Hometown: Cape Elizabeth, Maine

With HIOBS Since 2017

Fun Fact: I'm the youngest of five kids!

Eric Ruben

Madison Ruopp

Hometown Mechanicsburg, PA

Fun Fact: For the last two summers I worked at a zoo where I got kisses from an elk on a regular basis in exchange for feeding her corn.

Carolyn Sauck

Hometown of Kalamazoo, MI

Instructor since 2012

Fun Fact: Carolyn loves cheese sandwiches and rugby. In fact, she played rugby for 10 years during and after college.

Greta Smith

Hometown of Evansville, IN

Instructor Since 2017

Fun Fact: Before starting at Outward Bound this summer, I lived in Atlanta and decided to attempt to walk to Maine for work via the Appalachian Trail. I only got halfway (1.024 miles). I'll be back!

Paige Speight

Hometown Bar Harbor Maine

Fun Fact: Can make quite the convincing pig noise

Nora Spicer

Hometown of Cambridge, MA

Instructor since 2012

Fun Fact: Nora attended a Spanish bilingual school and loves backpacking in South America. 

Ken Sinapius

Hometown of Lynn MA

Instructor since 1984

Fun Fact: Ken is a member of the first graduating class of Outdoor Recreation majors at Unity College.

Josh Sturtevant

Hometown of Freeport, Maine

Instructor since 2013

Fun Facts: The first time John sailed was as a HIOBS student aboard a two week Maine Coast Sailing course. Nearly ten years later, after tending the smoldering inspiration from his Outward Bound experience as a student, he became an instructor for the HIOBS Sailing Program. It was on one of his very first courses in his HIOBS position that he would discover deep within the salty and tattered pages of his boat's Captain's Log a surprise hard to imagine: He was instructing on the same exact boat he had been aboard as a student many summers before!

Ben Vockley

Matthew Vosler

Hometown of Eaton, ohio

Instructor since 2015

Fun Fact: Matthew loves to catch, tag, and release sharks from the beach to help with scientific research projects.

Eli Walker

Hometown of Thomaston, Topsham, and Union, ME

Instructor since 2011

Fun Fact: Eli was a camper on a 5-week Chewonki Foundation canoe expedition in central Quebec when he was 16. One of his trip leaders was also an Outward Bound instructor. From that year on, he knew that he wanted to work for Outward Bound. He was finally old enough to apply when he was 21, and he became a HIOBS instructor. 

Dan Wellehan

Hometown of Newbury MA

Instructor since 1997

Fun Fact: Dan can juggle flaming torches and knives, but not at the same time . . . yet.

Chris Wells

Hometown of Metuchen, New Jersey.

Instructor since 1982

Fun Fact: Chris attended Woodstock!

Andrew Willey

Hometown of Poolesville, MD

Instructor since 2015

Fun Fact: Andrew is an EMT. 

Peals Wrobel

Hometown of Buffalo, NY

Fun Facts: Peals used to hitchhike a lot before getting her motorcycle then her car. She’s still not a grown up.