Yaeir Heber | Lead founder

Raised in Oakland and former student of other-founders Paul and Andy at Head-Royce, Yaeir graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in World-Views and Sustainability—a degree he designed to examine the underpinnings of our society's unsustainable tendencies and how education can be employed to strategically address them. His research led him around the world, studying education systems in eco-villages throughout Europe, community structure, permaculture design, and earth-building in the Middle East, rain-forest conservation and agroforestry in Ecuador, and community farming in the US. After graduating, he worked as an educator both in and outside of the formal classroom, like in Chester, PA for example, where he was responsible for the Public Housing Authority's urban agriculture program—developing and managing an urban farm and its youth education program. Whether through his work with community agriculture or teaching in classrooms in Manhattan and Oakland, Yaeir has a demonstrated commitment to helping students cultivate personal bonds with the natural world and one another through meaningful, experiential, outdoor education. Yaeir is an avid rock-climber and musician who loves to forage, cook, build, and spend time in the great outdoors.