Misuzu Chiu (she/her)

Since an early age, Misuzu wanted to become an early childhood educator. However, she decided to shift her dream and studied to be an ESL teacher to young children when she found joy in learning English. When she moved to Canada, she pursued her original dream and received an Early Childhood Education Diploma and an Infant and Toddler Educator Certificate.

Misuzu has been with Terra Nova Nature School since its first year. Although she had no background experience in outdoor education, she was motivated by her love of nature and passion for early childhood education. She started as a volunteer and learned what it meant to be an outdoor educator in an early childhood setting. Growing up in a rural area in Japan, she has a strong connection to where she is from. She has many vivid memories from her childhood, she can still remember how the air smelled during rice harvesting, how when walking into the silkworm farmhouse, she could hear their silent chatter, and how the fireflies danced in the darkness. It is her hope that she helps the children to create memories in nature that they can look back on fondly when they grow up. She believes having such memories will help them shape love and care for the land that they live on.

Outside of TNNS, Misuzu enjoys music and lives with her husband, two children and two dogs who so lovingly let her sing and play the ukulele whenever she wants.