Staff

Our staff are highly skilled, passionate, and creative art, science, design, and nature educators and advocates with a variety of backgrounds.

In addition to our NatureLab staff educators, we also offer opportunities for counselors (high school and above) and counselors-in-training (middle school). If you are interested in working at the NatureLab for the summer, NoSchool days, or one afternoon a week during the school year, please check out our Interest Page.

  • Leslie Sluger, Founder & Director
Leslie (she/her) is a design educator, a chief curator, a practicing architect, and one of the NatureLab’s founders. She grew up locally in Northwest DC/Montgomery County, MD & has lived in Takoma Park for close to 30 years. She holds degrees in Fine Arts and Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MBA from the University of Maryland. In her free time, she enjoys reading, sewing, being a non-practicing gearhead, and spending time with her family & many pets. Leslie is passionate about fostering and rekindling a closer understanding of our natural world. She’s proud to have created a space where so many can access that understanding, keep learning, and be themselves.
  • William Angelis, Founder
Bill (he/him) is a NatureLab founder, educator, and practicing architect. Bill is passionate about science and engineering, and loves to be outside. His programs combine his interests to reach new heights of creativity and discovery. He has a BFA and BARCH from the Rhode Island School of Design in Fine Arts and Architecture. 
        • Evalyn Angelis, Assistant Program Director & Admin
        Evalyn (she/her) is has grown up alongside the NatureLab since its inception in 2011. She is a proud Takoma Parkian, sister, anthropologist, and appreciator of the subversive. Evalyn spends her free time with her cats, Babycat & Bebop, and cultivating her many hobbies with perfumery and stained glass being the most recent in her repertoire. She holds a BA in Anthropology and a minor in History from St. Mary's College of Maryland. She looks forward to building upon our Labbies' understandings of past and present material culture and their interactions with the natural world.
        • Talia Trunk, Assistant Program Specialist
        Talia (she/her) has seen many different iterations of the NatureLab over the years, most recently working as a Friday afternoon program specialist and a leader for Breakthrough Intersession Mondays. She has a formal training in art & design as well as a passion for theater. Her programs are uniquely developed in line with her interests, which makes them popular. 
          • Maggie Murdoch, Assistant Program Specialist
          Maggie (she/her) is a creative with wide-ranging interest in many different artistic and scientific forms. She holds a degree in Environmental Science from St. Mary's College of Maryland, and combines her love for the natural world with her love for art, the human experience, and experimenting for knowledge's sake. 

          As always, if you have any other questions, please feel free to contact Leslie at tnlsteam@gmail.com or (301)-814-9213.