Geraldine Lee graduated from Yale University with a Master’s Degree in Forestry and Environmental Studies. She has consulted for Sikkim, India's Department of Tourism and MasterConsult on a Tourism Masterplan as an Ecotourism Specialist. She has also consulted for the National Parks Board and Public Utilities Board in Singapore, and with the Asian Development Bank in Indonesia as an Environmental/Ecological Risk Assessment Specialist and Forestry Specialist. She consulted and designed community forestry programmes and managed community forestry projects in Baltimore, Maryland and Fairhaven, Connecticut, USA. She was involved in Climate Change Research (carbon sequestration) in Costa Rica. She is passionate about trees, forests, wildlife, wildplaces and conservation.
Gerry was an Associate Scientist with the Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing & Processing (CRISP) at the National University of Singapore doing GIS and remote sensing research.
Gerry designed, developed and managed International Service Learning Projects at the Singapore International Foundation focusing on Environmental Conservation. She has taught/facilitated over 1,000 youth and trained 80 teachers, lecturers and educators in Cambodia, Indonesia, India and Malaysia. In 2005, Gerry managed SIF’s inaugural Singapore Executive Expeditions (SXX) involving 18 Partners, Directors and Senior Managers from PricewaterhouseCoopers in Bhutan.
Gerry is a certified Level 2 and 3 Wilderness First Responder and a certified SSI Rescue Diver with over 90 dives logged. She is also certified under the Register of Engineers for Disaster Relief (REDR). She has a powered pleasure craft license and she is competant sailor/skipper on a J-24 sailboat. She has cycled Australia and New Zealand totaling 5000km. She has been blessed with two daughters; the first is now aged 5 and the other born in June 2010. Her parenting philosohy includes elimination communication, attachment parenting, babywearing, co-sleeping, cloth-diapering, full-term breastfeeding and signing with her babies using ASL. Now Geraldine is starting on the adventure of homeschooling with her first-born.
