Amizade Faculty Instructors

Name: Trace Gale, PhD., Assistant Professor in Community Resource Assessment, Planning & Development; West Virginia University Extension Service
Class year: WVU Alumni
Major: Doctorate from WVU in Recreation, Parks and Tourism Resources; MBA from Villanova University with an Emphasis on Marketing; Bachelor from Middle Tennessee State University in Business Administration
Hometown: Wilmington, DE

Bio: Trace assists communities throughout West Virginia and in the southernmost regions of Chile with Community Resource Assessment, Planning & Development. She has developed undergraduate and graduate level learning adventures which students say are “life changing”! Her courses focus on outdoor adventure, leadership, entrepreneurism, global civic engagement, and community-led sustainable development. “Adventure Patagonia” is her latest collaboration with Adventure West Virginia, and promises to be the best course yet! When not leading trips, Trace can be found exploring rivers, forests, lakes, and mountains; wherever life’s adventures send her.

Quote: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
- Mark Twain