Nancy Metzger-Carter is the Sustainability Curriculum Coordinator at Sonoma Academy in Santa Rosa, CA and the first UN-certified climate change teacher in California. Nancy is an Education Leader with Schools for Climate Action and uses the climate resolution process as a teaching tool for high school students. She founded the Student Sustainability Leaders program at Sonoma Academy in 2019 and her students run day-to-day operations for Schools for Climate- including monthly newsletters, website/social media, speaking engagements and national outreach to schools and education sector organizations.
Nancy and her students worked with Rep Barbara Lee’s office in 2019 to draft the House Resolution in Support of Teaching Climate Change in Schools. Her students have participated in over 35 meetings with congressional offices urging climate action. Nancy completed her Masters in Education at Prescott College where she focused her research on effective sustainability education. She has been recognized as an Educator of Distinction and received recognition through the National Association of Independent Schools for her program work at a Leading Edge School for Environmental Sustainability. Nancy lives with her husband and two children in northern California.