Our Team

Kersey Lawrence and Lee Gutteridge are both qualified Trackers at the highest levels of certification and can assess trackers on the CyberTracker System. Lee is a Master Tracker and Kersey is a Senior Tracker.

Senior Tracker is earned by achieving the highest levels of certification, the Specialist level, in both aspects of tracker certification: track and sign identification, and trailing.

Master Tracker is a trademarked  honorary designation bestowed upon individuals who have been a Senior Tracker for at least 10 years and have also made a significant contribution to trackers and tracking. 

Together, Lee and Kersey specialize in ecological instruction and conservation research, and in training and mentoring Trackers. They frequently conduct tracker certifications in Africa and North America.

Kersey and Lee are co-authors of Tracking Animals, a Guide to Trailing Wildlife, and The Tracker Mentoring Manual, a how-to guide to developing a process to learn tracking, on your own, wherever you are. 

Lee is one of the most qualified guides in Southern Africa, a Scout Guide with many additional specializations. He is also the author of 10 field guides and natural history books, and a highly reputable trainer of guides for the ecotourism industry in Africa. He founded Nature Guide Training, a Southern African guide training company, in 2003. Lee is also a member of the Ethics Committee for the Field Guides Association of Southern Africa (FGASA).

Kersey founded Original Wisdom in 2013. She is the only woman in the world to have earned the Senior Tracker certification, and has a Ph.D. in the ecology and culture of tracking. You can download her published research here. Kersey spent over 20 years teaching outdoor skills to people of all ages, and was a university lecturer for a decade, obtaining a certificate in university-level environmental education and an award for excellence in teaching. 

She is a member of the WildTrack Specialist Group, serves as the Co-Chair of the Professional Development Committee for CyberTracker North America – Tracker Certification, is a founding member of the Certified Wildlife Trackers Association, and the Lead Editor for the Proceedings of the North American Wildlife Tracker Conference. 

Sandy and Cal Reed live and work in the midwestern/Appalachian region of the USA, where they have land in both Ohio and West Virginia. They run Nature Awareness and Bushcraft programs, including bow making, flint-knapping, arrow making, original fire making techniques, introduction to wildlife tracking and earth living skills. They are ethical and honorable hunters and gatherers of food from the land, and mentor others in these ways of life.

They also host CyberTracker Evaluations through CyberTracker North America. Sandy serves on CyberTracker North America’s Outreach Committee and is a certified Level 4 (Professional) in Track and Sign Identification  and a Level 3 in Trailing in the United States. She is also certified as a Level 3 in Track and Sign Identification and a Level 3 in Trailing in South Africa. Cal is certified at Level 3 in Track and Sign Identification and at Level 1 in Trailing in the United States. He is also certified at Level 2 in Track and Sign Identification in South Africa.

Cal works professionally in water quality, by trade. Sandy holds a bachelor’s degree in education from The Ohio State University and master’s degree in Gifted Education from Ashland University. She recently retired from 36 years of teaching science in public schools. As an educator, she was recognized as a Grosvenor Teacher Fellow through National Geographic and Lindblad Expeditions and traveled to Antarctica in 2023.

Shane Hawkins resides in western New York. For the first 17 years of her work life she was employed at a small animal and exotics veterinary hospital and wildlife rehabilitation center. She transitioned to the nonprofit world in 2004 and has served as executive director of a music and arts education organization since 2009.

Shane is certified at a Level 4 (Professional) in Track & Sign Identification, and at a Level I in Trailing in North America. She serves on the Board of CyberTracker North America and as a member of the Professional Development Committee.

Shane also contributes to WildTrack’s footprint identification technology (FIT) program and is a participant in NY state’s Master Naturalist training program.

Hillary Lisowski graduated from the University of Connecticut with a BS, where she majored in Animal Science, with a focus in Animal Behavior and a Minor in Wildlife Management. While at UConn, she took a Field Animal Behavior course that inspired her fascination with wildlife observation and led her to study abroad with Lee and Kersey in South Africa.  Since then she has worked as a nature guide, mushroom forager, owl biologist, ecological landscaper, teacher and EMT and has tracked wildlife in 48 states. Hillary recently moved back to Connecticut after living on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State for 6 years. Hillary is Tracker with CyberTracker in two continents. She holds a Track and Sign Identification Level 3 certification in the United States and a Track and Sign Identification Level 2 certification in South Africa. She also leads Connecticut’s monthly Wildlife Tracking Meet-up for Original Wisdom.

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A red-shouldered hawk in flight, Connecticut, USA, photo by Kersey Lawrence.