Liam DelMain (they/them)

B.A. Experiential Learning & Environmental Justice – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Certified Wilderness First Responder – National Outdoor Leadership School

Born on the South Shore of Lake Superior during a snowstorm, Liam calls the roughly diamond shaped region between the Apostle Islands, the Twin Cities, Bemidji and Voyageurs National Park home. They grew up as the sØn of language teachers and travelers, a middle-child of three turned eldest of two with a large extended family network whose ties are beyond blood. The values of community care, cooperation and cross-cultural world building were deeply instilled in them from a young age.

Liam’s life work is to co-create learning experiences that are grounded in relationships with community and the natural world, and that name and break down the colonial context we teach in, particularly here on Turtle Island. Their work has been shaped deeply by their struggles with mainstream education as a young person, by their participation in movements for environmental justice in Minnesota, and by their queer & trans identities. They envision a world in which the borders between our lives as learners, workers and community members are broken down and beautified. Entwined with their work as an experiential educator, Liam is also a community organizer working to grow the cooperative economy in their home region, particularly farming & housing cooperatives.

Liam has worked in the French and Chinese immersion programs at Concordia Language Villages for the past four summers, been a community educator with HECUA in Minneapolis, a high-school counselor at MN Prep Academy, and led expeditionary learning programs with student groups from Northern Minnesota to the Northern Rocky Mountains.

They are very excited to be an instructor for the Lake Superior: The Good Life program that is based in the area around their hometown of Bayfield, Wisconsin.