Wayne Turner

Wayne’s introduction to Teton Science Schools was as a student in the six-week High School Field Ecology program in 1986. Discovering his love of Grand Teton National Park and his passion for place-based education, he worked every summer during college at TSS in the kitchen, on the maintenance team, and as an administrative assistant. In 1991, he helped organize the effort to relocate the Hunter Lodge to TSS’s Kelly Campus where it still serves as the campus’s dining lodge.

Though he has left the valley several times in the intervening years to lead organizations in New England, New York, London, Utah, and Tanzania, he has always returned to Jackson Hole. In the early 2000s, Wayne served as TSS’s chief fundraiser and director of the Teacher Learning Center. Most recently, he served as vice president for development at Grand Teton National Park Foundation.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth. Wayne lives in Kelly, Wyoming with his wife, Polly (a graduate of TSS’s Professional Residency in Environmental Education and a former TSS faculty member) and his two daughters, Phoebe and Wren.