Hortonville woman’s Cool Green World reaches out to wild horses, Lakota tribe

Jody Marriott Bar-Lev is a bundle of energy, all directed at saving the planet one small step at a time. When the Hortonville [Wisconsin, USA] woman is not running the private school she founded in Grand Chute, she’s busy overseeing Cool Green World, an international nonprofit environmental and animal welfare organization, or she’s leading the charge in efforts to save wild horses in the western United States or she’s working to better the lives of the poverty-stricken Lakota people in South Dakota. Marriott Bar-Lev heads The Academy, a private, secular elementary and secondary school that she founded six years ago in Grand Chute with a curriculum that emphasizes an international scope. Its enrollment has grown to 76 students this year. That’s her day job. What takes up much of her time outside of the school and family — she’s married to Dr. Avi Bar-Lev and has a 12-year-old daughter, Shaeli — are her goodwill projects. Read Article

By Cheryl Anderson