About me
Yatska is an experienced and passionate environmental educator. She has a BS in Environmental Sciences from Universidad Metropolitana in Puerto Rico and an MS in Environmental Education from Nova Southeastern University in Florida. She has lived in Tampa with her family for the last twenty years. Her family members were science and math teachers, which helped her develop an appetite for science and research from a very early age.Her frequent visits to El Yunque rainforest, the salt flats, mangroves, and a historic lighthouse in her hometown in the western area of Puerto Rico have inspired her passion for environmental education, plants, and wildlife.
Arriving at the Florida Youth Conservation Centers Network from her career as a park ranger with Florida State Parks, she is now the Florida Project WILD Coordinator and Bilingual Educator based out of the Suncoast Youth Conservation Center located in Apollo Beach, where she coordinates a network of volunteer facilitators, participates in outreach events, and leads lessons for the Knee-High Naturalists Go WILD! early childhood program.
As Yatska continues to lead Project WILD forward, she hopes to create a community with an incredible team of empowered allies.
