Meet the Hearth Team
Grace Martenson
Grace’s love for the outdoors started very early during her time in Wolf Tree wilderness programs as a child. She works as a survival skills trainer, and as Hearth’s Founder, Program Director, and Lead Guide, Grace’s passion is organizing rites of passage experiences for the girls and young women in our community.
Eliza Hollister
Eliza spent her childhood in the woods of Colrain, MA, upending rocks and logs in search of salamanders and going for endless explorations. Now, she supports youth in the outdoors with several local programs and is Hearth’s Program Director and Lead Guide.
Erica Martenson
Since she was eight, Erica has participated in nature connection programs, practicing ancestral skills with her community. It was a natural transition to leading community nature programs, which she started at the age of 12.
Natasha Rose Diamondstone-Kohout
Natasha’s love of painting, sculpting, travel, nature connection work, fire building, and the rhythms of the natural world have brought her across the globe and back home again. She has worked as a whitewater and bike packing guide in South America and a nature connection teacher with many programs spanning New England and the British Isles.
Kaitlyn Cronin
Kaitlyn’s work lives at the intersection of ecology, creativity, spirituality and the integration of Death in the sacred cycle of Life. She weaves stories through visual art, immersive experience, and somatic knowing.
Cat Tween
Cat Tween is a visual artist & small business owner whose paintings track cycles of nature, the moon, the seasons, herbs & fungi, the menstrual cycle and more. She has worked as a facilitator and guide in healing & transformational spaces since 2018.
Jannie Dziadzio
(Elder Lead)
Jannie Dziadzio is a highly sensitive facilitator/catalyst who is a passionate life-long learner, a deep diver, a soul seer, and an offerer of introspective questions and insightful reflections. She is a retired organizational development consultant, an intuitive transformational coach and a holder of sacred space. She's gratefully devoting her sixth decade of life to deep connection, love, healing, song, creative spark and harmony in a myriad of forms.
Rebecca Allen
(Aunt Lead)
Rebecca’s life has been and continues to be in service to connection. As a therapist, she serves the connection within and between people. As a ceremonialist, she serves the connection between humans, land and spirit. Rebecca is the Chair of the Vermont Wilderness School Board of Directors and former Executive Director of the Andes Amazon Conservancy.
Laurie Davidson
(Parent Support Lead)
Coming soon.
