Meet Our Team
Our staff, supported by thousands of volunteers, collaborates with the members of the board and Founders' Circle to achieve impactful results.
Event Coordinator
(he/him)
David Bagwell
"The path is made in the walking of it."
- Zhuangzi
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Program & Safety Coordinator (she/her)
Emily Berend
"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life." - Rachel Carlson
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Program & Development Liaison (she/her)
Abby Boyle
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
- Alice Walker
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Senior Development Manager (she/her)
Dedie Cameron
"Love is active, not passive. It is our love for one another, for Mother Earth, for our fellow creatures that compel us to act on their behalf." - Laurence Overmire
Chief Executive Officer
(she/her)
Kris Carico
"Don't cry because it's over; smile because
it happened."
- Dr. Seuss
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Development & Board Relations Administrator (she/her)
Mary Coniglio
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
- Robert Frost
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Staff Accountant
(she/her)
Natalie Hayashibara
"Life is uncertain; eat dessert first."
- Unknown
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Development Director
(he/him)
Josh Keller
"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it."
- JM Barrie
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Finance Director
(she/her)
Sara Lister
"Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart." - Eknath Easwaran
Program Director
(she/her)
Taylor Neitzke
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke
Program Manager
(she/her)
Estrella Valdez
Bilingual ¡Yo hablo español!
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"Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own." - Unknown
Communications Manager
(she/her)
Stefanie Wich-Herrlein
"The journey of a thousand miles begins
with one step."
- Lao Tzu
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