SEATTLE - Bev Clevenger has joined Woodland Park Zoo as the Director of Education. Clevenger brings a wealth of experience in designing, building and leading informal education programs for institutions throughout the country. Her experience includes more than 20 years of working with a profound interest in and intent of opening options and opportunities to learners of all ages.
 
Most recently Clevenger was Director of the large education department at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. Previous to the Education Director position at the Museum of Flight, she served in multiple positions, including Senior Director of Innovation at the Learning Exchange in Missouri and working with numerous organizations across the country over the past 20 years.
 
Clevenger has a Master of Arts degree from the University of Missouri Kansas City in reading/learning education and a Bachelors of Arts degree from Eastern Washington University in communication disorders, speech/language pathology and education.
 
Clevenger grew up in Washington, and spent her summers camping and hiking in the Olympic Peninsula; she’s now an avid scuba diver and very involved in coral conservation in a community-based conservation project in Honduras.

Woodland Park Zoo
Accredited by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums, award-winning Woodland Park Zoo is famed for pioneering naturalistic exhibits and setting a standard for zoos all over the world. With conservation, education and excellent animal care at the core of the zoo’s mission, the zoo is helping to save endangered species in Washington state and around the world including tree kangaroos, snow leopards, red-crowned cranes, African wild dogs, western pond turtles and Oregon silverspot butterflies. By inspiring visitors and others to care and act, Woodland Park Zoo is making a difference in our planet’s future.