SOLE Administrators & Faculty
SOLE is fortunate to have a team of individuals who possess significant professional experience in the fields of experiential education, outdoor education, traditional academia, special education, and counseling. Our innovative approach to these fields doesn’t only include program design, it also involves how we facilitate each SOLE Experience SM. We believe in providing a first rate experience for our stakeholders. To do so, in addition to having the necessary formal education and training, we need to have to have an accurate assessment of the needs of our organization to include our personnel and those we serve. Therefore, those that drive and support SOLE’s mission volunteer countless hours and serve as consultants, board members, administrators, and Field Instructors to obtain an accurate pulse and support all the SOLE Experiences SM we offer.
Administrators & Faculty
Dennison Webb, MA
Founder | Executive Director
After spending decades leading expeditions for the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS); serving as an administrator and developing experiential education curriculum for wilderness and residential programs; and even teaching college at Texas A&M University, Dennison founded SOLE on the real exisiting need for intentional and transformative experiential education programming for rural youth in North Idaho and beyond. Click his LinkedIn Profile below for more info on Dennison!
John Hastings
Lead Field Instructorr
John has supported SOLE's programs in the field since 2012 as both a educator partner and field instructor for SOLE. He brings an traditional educator’s perspective to his passion for conservation, often blending both when working courses for SOLE. John has developed curriculum for the State Department of Education and instructed courses for the University of Idaho. When not in the classroom, John has engaged his students in many local and regional citizen science projects. In fact, it was service work such as this that named him Environmental Educator of the Year for Idaho in 2015. In addition, John spent many years guiding canoe trips and dog sled trips into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in his home state of Minnesota, and has worked as a mountaineering instructor in Wyoming. Click his LinkedIn Profile below for more info on John!
Anna Hughes
Lead Field Instructor
Salem Rutan
Field Instructor