2026 Marina Ewald & Kurt Hahn Address Nomination Form

  • 2026 Marina Ewald & Kurt Hahn Address Nomination Form

    Nominations Due: July 24

  • Purpose: The Marina Ewald & Kurt Hahn Address is a way to honour our leaders and their convictions, and celebrate our successes. The Ewald & Hahn Address is given at the Annual Conference by a person who has contributed to the development and advancement of experiential education with the tenacity and conviction exemplified by Marina Ewald and Kurt Hahn.

    Directions: The purpose of this form is to gather information about the nominees for the Ewald & Hahn Address Presenter. Please click here for the Kurt Hahn & Ewald Address history, philosophy, and criteria. Your responses will be kept confidential. Thank you!

  • Your Contact Information

    In some instances, we may need to contact you for additional information or clarifying information. Please provide your contact information below.
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  • Nominee Contact Information

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  • Nominee General Information

  • Nominee References

    Please provide the names of references of those who know and can speak to this person’s work, contributions, and attributes, including compassion, craft, innovation, tenacity, adventurousness, service, spirit, an enterprising curiosity, and physical, intellectual and spiritual vigor.

  • Nominee AEE Experience

  • Current AEE Member?
  • How long has the nominee been an AEE member?

  • Nominee Contributions, Impact, Influence, and Character

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  • Nominee - Engaging Presenter

  • Has experience & confidence speaking with large groups
  • Able to address/adapt to diverse audiences
  • Able to build rapport/connect with audience (logically & emotionally)
  • Able to provide strong content
  • Able to provide a meaningful and inspirational message
  • Has a powerful speaking voice (clarity, volume, speed)
  • Knowledge of/ability to present virtually
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  • IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility) Statement:

    AEE’s mission commits us to “building an inclusive and accessible community for experiential education professionals”.

    Our organizational value of social justice is defined as: 

    Supporting people of diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures is an integral part of developing successful experiential education programming.

    Given that, we want to reaffirm that AEE is committed to being an organization where folx belong and are accepted for who they are. With this statement, we reaffirm our commitment to ensuring our members feel they belong in our community. 

    Additionally, as a membership organization, we are committed to providing resources and support to our members to develop and operate socially just and inclusive programming.

    To that end, we the AEE staff and Board of Directors: 

    Commit to diversity, working to bring members of many backgrounds and from around the globe into our organization and into leadership in our organization

    Commit to inclusion, taking intentional steps to support our membership in working across differences of race, culture, gender, and more

    Commit to equity, by creating systems to expose inequities in order to make opportunities within our field accessible by all.       

    We acknowledge that creating and sustaining an organization where all folx belong will be uncomfortable at times, but we’re excited for foundational work that is necessary to fulfilling the full spirit and intent of our mission and values.

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