Sarah Pedemonte

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Sarah Pedemonte is a professional learning specialist at the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California in Berkeley. She currently works with teachers, schools, and Districts to build their capacity to provide equitable, high-quality science and environmental literacy programs. Ms Pedemonte has twenty-five years of experience teaching in informal settings and public schools, and ten years as a university lecturer. Ms Pedemonte is co-Director of the Bay Area Science project, and currently directs a project seeking to broaden participation in the geosciences among communities that are underrepresented in the STEM fields.

From an early age, Sarah Pedemonte knew she wanted to be connected to the ocean. She studied Marine Biology at University College of North Wales and received her Masters from the University of Stirling, Scotland in Aquaculture and Fisheries Management. She then pursued a career in fish farming that emphasized sustainability. She worked in Ireland, Israel, Bangladesh, Australia, the Bahamas and Thailand, for government groups and in private industry, transferring research-based understandings to grass-roots oyster, shrimp and fish farmers. Sarah began to promote the importance of preserving the ocean and its resources through informal education while living in Belize. She began working with the non-government organizations Oceanic Society and the Planetary Coral Reef Foundation who were working with Belizean fisheries officers on creating Marine Protected Areas. Sarah became a certified SCUBA Instructor and taught coral reef ecology and conservation.

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