Ivan Stiefel

Ivan Stiefel, 2008 Brower Youth Award recipient and former literature teacher at World Class Kayak Academy, is in the process of informing high school teachers and college professors in West Virginia about the Journey Up Coal River website to see if they are interested in utilizing the site as a resource in their class rooms during the 2009/2010 school year. Ivan likes to take long walks in the woods, remember how to be a human and not a machine, drink yerba mate and kayak. He received a B.A. in English and Philosophy with honors from West Virginia University and is currently living in the Coal River Valley. To see a short film and speech by Ivan click here. .