Amanda Warren

School Office Administrator & Special Projects Manager

Amanda discovered her love for hands-on learning as a child while canoeing the lakes and rivers of northern Maine and Canada with her family. In fact, Amanda went on her first extended canoeing trip when she was just one-year-old! Whether seeing the northern lights while camping in the Yukon, or raising wood frog tadpoles in a terrarium on her front porch, a love for exploring the natural world has driven her life for as long as she can remember. Academically, Amanda pursued her interest in ecology through time at the Chewonki Foundation in coastal Maine, and a Conservation Biology degree at Middlebury College. Amanda’s senior thesis at Middlebury focused on climate change’s impact on the distribution of forest types in the Breadloaf Wilderness.

Amanda’s love for examining the complex relationships between human and ecological communities, combined with a zealous enthusiasm for cooking and eating, led Amanda to an interest in sustainable agriculture. As co-president of the Middlebury College Organic Farm, Amanda partnered with Cornwall Elementary to build a school garden and designed a nutrition and agriculture after school program. Amanda has worked on organic farms throughout New England, including Gildrien Farm in Leicester.

The child of two boarding school teachers, Amanda has a lifetime of experiences in schools. Amanda began teaching outdoor education as a high schooler, when she taught rock climbing to elementary school students. As an undergraduate at Middle College, Amanda minored in Education Studies and completed her undergraduate student-teaching at Aurora School in Middlebury, the Bronx Academy of Letters in New York City, and Menzi Township High School in Durban, South Africa. While at Middlebury College, Amanda obtained the Middlebury College Mountain Club Guide certification, and she led winter camping and backcountry skiing overnight trips as part of freshman orientation.

Amanda received her Masters in Elementary Education from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Amanda is a licensed elementary school teacher in Massachusetts and Vermont. Before coming to Bridge School, Amanda taught 1st grade, and 5th & 6th grade science at BB&N School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She also worked as an Outdoor Educator at the Chewonki Foundation and as the Dean of Residential Life at Coastal Studies for Girls, a science and leadership school, where she led overnight trips for high school girls, and supervised a team of educational interns.

When not teaching, Amanda can be found at home with three children, knitting, training for marathons, and foraging for wild apples with her husband, David Dolginow, who is co-founder of Shacksbury Cider. Amanda is also a certified yoga instructor and she serves on the board of directors of the Middlebury Natural Foods Co-Op.