Jennifer Chambers

Jennifer Chambers is an author, middle school science teacher, environmental educator and small business owner. In 2004, she started her own business, Hiking Along, LLC. to engage children in exploration of the natural world and encourage them to appreciate and learn about the environment and how humans impact it while hiking on scenic trails around the DC region.

As a volunteer with Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, Jennifer helped implement PATC’s family hiking program, family weekend at Bear’s Den, created the grant-funded Student Trail Steward program at Northwood High School, and organized youth-focused trail building projects in her hometown.

Jennifer was an Environmental Education Specialist with the Audubon Naturalist Societies’ GreenKids program whose goal is to make environmental education and meaningful watershed educational experiences an integral part of the instructional strategy at participating schools and to create formative experiences for students that foster lifelong environmental literacy and stewardship.

She is currently a middle school science teacher at The Siena School; a private school whose mission is to educate college-bound students with mild to moderate learning differences.

Jennifer is a children’s book author of Watershed Adventures of a Water Bottle, published by Tate Publishing in April 2013 and a hiking guide book, Best Hikes for Kids: Washington DC, The Beltway and Beyond, published by Mountaineers Books in September 2014.

Jennifer is the Chair of the Board of Directors for the American Hiking Society and is the Maryland State Advocate for Leave No Trace.

She lives in Silver Spring with her husband and two children who are an active outdoor family.