RIT Environmental Education

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Kaeti Stoss is the Environmental Education Specialist at RIT. Her focus is on plastic pollution, citizen science, and bilingual education. With her hands-on curriculum built to connect students from rural, suburban, and urban backgrounds to their natural environment, Ms. Stoss uses experiential learning and enrichment activities to support E-STEM engagement and career exploration. She seeks to reconnect all students with their surroundings and spark their interest in their local environment by leveraging it into unique learning experiences.

Ms. Stoss built on her experiences as a Cultural Resource Management archaeologist in Western New York by discovering tangible ways of interacting and learning from our environment. After a few years of digging, she reconnected with her interest in science education and began volunteering for Delta Environmental. She then became Program Director for Delta Environmental and used her passion for creating community partnerships to enrich local environmental education. She is a facilitator for Project WILD, Aquatic WILD, Project Wet, and the North American Association of Environmental Education’s Guidelines in Excellence. She is a member of the Water Education Collaboration, Finger Lakes STEM Hub, New York State Outdoor Education Association, and Climate Realty Corp of the Climate Reality Project.

In 2021, Ms. Stoss joined RIT. She earned her MS in Teaching in the Geosciences program at Mississippi State, her BS in Earth Science and Adolescent Teaching from the College at SUNY Brockport, and her BA in Art History from the University of Rochester.