Brad Lewis is on the board of Friends of Hoja Nueva, our U.S. sister organization and fiscal sponsor. He has been teaching mathematics for over twenty-five years, the past seventeen at Bainbridge High School. He started his teaching career with the Peace Corps, where he taught mathematics in Lesotho, Southern Africa. Currently he serves as the Mathematics Department Head, where he specializes in Applied Statistics. Brad earned his Master's Degree in Education from the University of Washington, and is working toward his second Master Degree in Applied Statistics from Penn State University. He has over a decade of experience creating, developing, and leading three-week student trips to authentic research facilities throughout the world. The focus of these trips are to provide opportunities for students to experience real-world applications of statistics in the fields of animal conservation, environmental sciences, and global health. Currently he leads expeditions to Lajuma Reasearch Center, South Africa and to our site at Hoja Nueva in Peru.