The Team
Who We Are
Chandra Llewellyn
Co-Founder & Instructor
Chandra is an educator, scientist, guide, and adventurer with a deep love for people, wild places, and the connections that grow between them. Her work has taken her across ecosystems around the globe — from deserts, to the tropics, to the Arctic and Antarctic — with a professional focus on ecology, conservation, field safety, risk management, and building strong, resilient teams.
A teacher at heart, Chandra has spent decades mentoring, guiding, mountaineering, and training teams in some of the world’s most remote and demanding environments. She has instructed for organizations including Outward Bound and National Outdoor Leadership School, and has worked professionally as a guide, ski patroller, EMT, and college professor. Her career has included leading high-angle rescue teams, managing helicopter-supported field operations, and developing field safety and risk assessment programs for scientists working in Antarctica and the Arctic.
Whether teaching wilderness medicine, a college level cell biology course, navigating remote terrain, or mentoring teams in challenging conditions, Chandra is known for bringing warmth, humor, compassion, calm leadership, and deep experience to everything she does.
Outside of work, you’ll most likely find her adventuring with her family, trail running through the mountains with her four-legged sidekick, biking, skiing, or growing food and farming alongside the people she loves most. She’s equally happy with a strong cup of coffee and a pair of binoculars at sunrise, birding quietly in the woods, or gathered with friends around music, dancing, and a plate of something wonderfully spicy. A self-proclaimed book nerd, Chandra is a lifelong learner and wholehearted lover of life who believes the best stories are found outdoors — and shared in good company.
Marjoire Mazie
Co-Founder & Instructor
At 4 feet 10.25” inches tall and reported to have a 7-foot personality, Marjorie Mazie (“Mazie”) has packed more life experiences into her small but formidable frame than someone three times her size.
Mazie has built her career around her 3 passions: equitable healthcare, the wild outdoors and practical hands-on education. Her career spans 4 decades. Over the years she has worked with teens in wilderness therapy and service learning programs and lead teams restoring trails and doing remote conservation projects. An EMT since 2001 she has worked both in rural and urban EMS. During COVID Mazie worked on the frontlines, with International Medical Corps in New York City and with Project Hope at Navajo Nation.
Her interest in international humanitarian medical work has spanned the gamut from refugee camps in Greece to working with underserved communities on the street, and to teaching first aid and disease prevention to people living along the Amazon river in remote villages in Peru.
Teaching Wilderness Medicine with WMI/NOLS since 2003, Mazie has had the privilege of working with literally thousands of inspiring students and many talented co-instructors.
Ask anyone sitting at a dive bar, Mazie has never met a stranger in her life. She lives off grid up a canyon in the central Cascades of Washington state. She grows much of her own food, brews a lot of her own beer and enjoys fly fishing, foraging, skiing out her back door with her dogs and her wife, playing guitar and listening to albums. She especially likes books that are over 850 pages and games with super involved directions.
