ISDSI Instructor From Thailand Takes Wind River Wilderness Course

As an instructor with the International Sustainable Development Studies Institute (ISDSI) in Thailand, Rodjana "Toto" Nasor is used to backpacking through the jungle, crossing rivers, and spending large amounts of time in the wilderness. However, after almost five years of working with U.S. college students, she wanted to experience the great American wilderness. What better way than through NOLS?!

Toto first became acquainted with NOLS when she took a Wilderness First Responder course through the Wilderness Medicine Institute  in Thailand last summer. She then completed a Wind River Wilderness course this July and is spending the next few weeks in various departments at NOLS to help out, learn, and be a part of the NOLS community for a short time.  Toto is from the Karen ethnic group, one of the "hill tribes" of Northern Thailand.  She has a BA in Sociology and Anthropology, and is an instructor on the Political Ecology of Forests course at ISDSI. After her stint at NOLS, Toto is going to be visiting Kalamazoo College and the University of Denver.

Toto weighing and bagging a collection of food and spices in the Rations Room at NOLS Rocky Mountain