Kerri McAllister

Kerri has built a career in environmental and international education. She currently serves as a professor at Unity Environmental University in Maine.

Her connection with National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions began in 2016 as a Grosvenor Teacher Fellow. During that fellowship, she joined an Arctic expedition to Norway and Svalbard, contributing to research focused on plankton and sea ice change.

Throughout her career, Kerri has participated in projects around the world. Her work has included studying the impacts of outdoor education in Australia, evaluating teacher training programs in Mayan communities in southern Belize, interviewing nomadic families in Mongolia about the effects of climate change on their livelihoods and contributing to great white shark research in South Africa's Shark Alley.

Kerri earned a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, where her doctoral research focused on climate change education. She also holds a Master of Arts in Education from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies from the University of Vermont. Her teaching experience includes positions with NatureBridge, Shelburne Farms, Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center, the Chewonki Foundation and the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. Kerri received the Bishop Marcus Award, supporting her American Sign Language studies at Gallaudet University, and the Baxter Memorial Award, through which she became a certified rescue scuba diver.

When not aboard expedition ships, she maintains a small fruit orchard and sugarbush, producing her own cider and maple syrup.