Cammy Torgenrud

Board Member, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation

Born and raised in Carmel, California, retired educator Cammy Torgenrud is an environmental and social activist. After earning separate BAs in English and Psychology as well as an MA in Education from Stanford University, Cammy played a variety of roles in addition to teaching students during her 35 years in Monterey County independent secondary schools. Her positions included Humanities Division Head, Dean of Faculty and Director of Technology. Cammy earned the York School Board of Trustees Outstanding Faculty Award in 1998 and served as faculty representative to York’s Board of Trustees from 1998 to 2001. She continues to support young people through mentorship in AIM Youth Mental Health’s Ideas Lab, a participatory action research project designed to offer teenagers an opportunity to conduct meaningful research to inform grant-making.  

Currently training to become a certified California Naturalist, Cammy is a volunteer docent at Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve as well as secretary of Devil’s Creek, Inc. a corporation dedicated, in affiliation with The Nature Conservancy and U. C. Santa Cruz, to maintaining and preserving an ecological reserve in Big Sur.