Laura Arndt is the creator of purposeful and culturally-relevant STEM experiences, and the founder-executive director of Global GreenSTEM. She works with educators to design solutions-based STEM opportunities and curricula that inspire and empower learners of any culture and identity to be positive changemakers. In formal education, Laura has worked with Guam Department of Education to create curriculum and instructional strategies focused on Pacific Island ecosystems and culture; and with American Indian Academy of Denver to indigenize STEAM curriculum and instruction. Her Global GreenSTEM projects are enriched by the sixteen years teaching high school and elementary science and GreenSTEM in Colorado’s Cherry Creek School District. 

In informal STEM education, Laura develops purposeful mission-driven GreenSTEM programs and action projects with organizations and agencies. She is partnering with Ugandan Conservation Through Public Health to create and facilitate a first STEM conservation program that empowers village Bwindi Youth Guardian groups, living around mountain gorilla habitat in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, to design and implement solutions-based STEAM conservation projects that help people-forest-wildlife. She has also worked with Captain Planet Foundation, Biomimicry Institute, Indigenous BATWA organizations, India STEM Alliance, state and national parks, zoos, and nature centers. Laura presents at conferences, schools, and organizations nationally and internationally; and also writes and publishes articles.