Sylvie started working with Cornell’s Team and Leadership Center at the age of 15. Since then she has worked as an outdoor adventure guide for the Claremont Colleges in California, a rock climbing instructor in Colorado, a bicycle tour guide in New Zealand and the Northeastern USA, and a mountain instructor for the North Carolina Outward Bound School. Bicycling, canoeing, backpacking, rock climbing and organic farming are Sylvie’s primary outdoor activities.

She holds a Wilderness First Responder Certification and she’s a League of American Bicyclists Certified Instructor. In her spare time, she puts on interactive community-building events and she is pursuing an MBA at Ithaca College.