Tom Weistar, along with his wife, Debra, founded and directs Synergia Learning Ventures and Finding the Good Traveling Semester Program, located in the Yuba River watershed in California’s Sierra foothills. His pioneering work in informal education spans 25 years and is focused on teaching youth how to use filmmaking as a tool for social change, often while in a wilderness setting. The Finding the Good program, for high school and gap year students, is based on studying and documenting working models of sustainability. (www.findingthegood.org and www.synergialearning.org)
