Meet Our Guides

At Rainwalk Rewild, we believe that no one walks this path alone. Our team of guides, instructors, and guest teachers come from diverse lineages of earth-based learning, wilderness experience, and nature connection. Each brings their own flavor of curiosity, reverence, and skill to our shared mission: to help others remember their place in the web of life.

Together, we hold space for growth, resilience, and wonder—supporting students of all ages in building real skills and meaningful relationships with the natural world.

Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I hold my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.

- Robin Wall Kimmerer

Our Teaching Philosophy

We’re not just teaching survival—we’re mentoring reconnection.

Our instructors serve as facilitators and fellow wanderers. Some are seasoned in primitive skills and naturalist training; others bring a deep background in child-led education, foraging, plant medicine, storytelling, or rites of passage work. All are passionate about fostering belonging, ecological awareness, and personal transformation.

Whether it’s guiding a child in bowdrill fire-making, teaching a basketweaving class, or leading a wild edible foray, our teaching team meets learners with presence, respect, and joy.

Ansley Roberts

Co-Founder | Executive Director
Ethnobotanist | Educator | Storyteller

Ansley Roberts is a naturalist, educator, and community weaver whose journey has taken her from the high desert of Arizona to the mossy forests of the Pacific Northwest. With a B.S. in Environmental Science from Northern Arizona University, her background includes field research in forest ecology, native plant surveying across the Colorado Plateau, and over a decade of leadership in ecological restoration, outdoor education, and community engagement.

Ansley’s love for the natural world runs deep. She studied herbal medicine with The Forager’s Path, The Herbal Academy, and a traditional Mayan elder, and apprenticed in reiki, flower essence therapy, dreamwork, and sacred beekeeping. She has trained in wilderness rites of passage with Cascadia Quest, completed multiple WFR certifications through NOLS, and continues to blend science, ceremony, and story in everything she teaches.

As the co-founder of Rainwalk Rewild, Ansley leads programs in foraging, ethnobotany, dreamwork, and wilderness skills, guiding others into deeper relationship with land and soul. She is also a musician, poet, leatherworker, basketmaker, and motorcyclist.

Matthew Hale

Co-Founder | Educational Director
Outdoor Educator | Naturalist | Forager

Matt grew up exploring the wilds of Washington’s Sky Valley, developing a lifelong passion for the plants, fungi, and animals of the Pacific Northwest. A graduate of Alderleaf Wilderness College, Matt holds certifications in Permaculture Design and CyberTracker Track & Sign Level II, and has spent over a decade weaving together wilderness education, backcountry guiding, sustainable farming, and foraging.

Before co-founding Rainwalk Rewild in 2023, he managed outdoor education programs, worked in wilderness therapy, and taught earth skills across the region. Matt brings a grounded, soulful presence to his teaching—equally at home crafting in the woodshop, identifying mushrooms in the forest, or skateboarding.

Core Team

Adjunct Faculty & Guest Instructors

Throughout the seasons, we are honored to collaborate with a rotating group of skilled educators, culture-bearers, and rewilders who offer their unique gifts to our community. Our guest teachers have included:

  • Traditional craftspeople and basketmakers

  • Herbalists and mycologists

  • Wildlife trackers and nature awareness mentors

  • Council facilitators and wilderness guides

  • Cultural educators and storytellers

Their presence enriches our programs and helps us grow a learning village that honors many ways of knowing.

  • Embodiment Guide & Wilderness Educator
    Meg Evans is a dreamer, dancer, world weaver, and devoted spirit follower—walking the path of healing, embodiment, and deep connection with the Earth. A former competitive ice dancer for the United States, she has spent the past 14 years reclaiming her body, deconstructing limiting narratives, and rediscovering joy through movement, ancestral skills, and wilderness immersion. Meg spent the last ten years leading backcountry wilderness therapy trips, creating ancestral skills programs for youth and adults, and facilitating nature-based ceremonial retreats.

  • Archery Instructor & Forager
    Jack Harding, born in Portland OR, grew up outside building shelters, making fires, and eating wild mushrooms! He has worked in Outdoor Education programs for the last three years, and is currently studying Environmental Education and Mycology at Western Washington University.

Interested in Teaching With Us?

We’re always looking to build relationships with passionate educators, elders, and skill-sharers. If you feel called to join our seasonal faculty or propose a collaboration, reach out to us here.