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Rowan Coburn-Griffis is currently a student at Antioch College in Yellow Springs Ohio. A former graduate of Hocking Technical College, she now studies Environmental Sciences for her undergraduate. As a student there, she has been on four co-ops, working full time three months out of the school year to gain a knowledge and understanding of various practices.  Before coming to Antioch, Rowan worked for Hocking Hills State Park in the Maintenance Department, and helped on several carry-outs and rescues. She worked through high school for a wildlife rehabilitation center in Toledo, Ohio. Since coming to Antioch, she has worked for a local therapeutic riding nonprofit in Yellow Springs. In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, she worked with sled dogs, and in Florida she worked as a part time veterinary technician as well as a lab intern for a marine biology laboratory. The final co-op led her to once again return to sled dogs, this time in Minnesota. As a student, Rowan studies to attain her Bachelors Degree in Environmental Sciences. Her goals beyond graduation are to work in the National Parks as a Naturalist, and to become certified as a veterinary technician. Her true dream, however, is to one day open up a pit bull, bully breed, and sled dog rescue and to give those dogs a job: dry-mushing. This way these animals will have a good home and a job to pour their high energies into.