Diana Goldberg- Team Teacher
WFR certified Backpacking Guide
Teaches: English, Wilderness Medicine, Workplace Learning, LeadershipBIO: Diana Goldberg grew up in Chicago, IL. She dreamt of being an English teacher since she was 5 years old. She grew up playing sports, playing music, and performing in any theater production she could. She followed her dream to the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she got her degree in Secondary English Education.
When she was in college, she spent a summer teaching English and living and exploring in Ecuador. It was the first time she saw mountains and got to live fully amongst the earth. From there, she began her time as a summer camp counselor at Camp Augusta in Nevada City, CA. While running the Junior Counselor program there, she was able to take her first Backpacking trip and fell in LOVE with the wilderness.
Today, Diana is a proud English teacher and Backpacking enthusiast. She has been an educator in the bay area for 10 years. She taught in Hayward and then become the lead teacher of the Team Program at Tamiscal HS starting in 2017. She has been working at Archie Williams High School since 2020 and is excited to launch this new expanded model of Team!
Diana currently lives in San Francisco with her partner Eddy and their puppy Cous Cous. She spends her after school time hiking her favorite trails , lifting weights, doing yoga, reading books, and connecting with community near and far. She truly believes Team is the most transformative program for young people and can’t wait to help more teens connect with the healing powers of nature and their lifelong goals!
Miranda Mills - TEAM Student Teacher
WFR certified Backpacking Guide
Teaches: Physics in the Universe, Wilderness Medicine, Leadership
Miranda grew up in Southern California as the oldest of a large household. She grew up camping, playing competitive soccer, making videos, and being outside as much as possible. She loved all things arts and sciences, but dreamed of being an architect. This goal took her to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Florence, Italy, and on a winding path that kept pointing to outdoor education as a parallel life.
She worked as an adventure camp counselor in the Santa Cruz mountains the summer before her final year of college. This wonderful experience informed her architectural thesis, which focused on researching and designing outdoor education classrooms in Watts, Los Angeles. After graduating, she worked as a general contractor building multi-use housing projects in Berkeley for many years. In her free time, she organized backpacking, camping, biking and kayaking excursions for her friends. Though, she dreamed of getting back to outdoor education. Then, in 2023, a friend introduced her to the TEAM program, and she’s been obsessed ever since.
She’s been stoking her fire for teaching as a soccer coach, a camp counselor/ director, a middle school science teacher, a physics teacher, and as the TEAM student teacher. She is attending San Francisco State’s science credential program and aims to bring Chemistry in the Earth System to the TEAM program in Fall 2026.
She lives in Oakland with her life partner Ali and their Cat Stevens. She still loves to play soccer, make things, grow plants, surf and explore new and familiar places. She believes in the importance and magic of experiential and environmental education for kids and adults of every background. She can’t wait to see you on trail to swap stories and questions.