Staff

Senior Leadership

John v.H. Halsey

President

Favorite Activity
Sailing
Sailing

Irene Sierra

Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Operations(she/her)

“I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Favorite Activity
Hiking
Hiking

Yvette DeBow-Salsedo

Vice President(she/her)

“The Earth is what we all have in common.” — Wendell Berry

Matt Swain

Vice President

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” — Warren Buffett

Favorite Activity
Biking
Biking

Melanie A. Tebbens

Vice President

“May you always have a shell in your pocket and sand in your shoes!”

Favorite Activity
Paddling
Paddling

Conservation Programs

Kim Quarty

Director of Conservation Planning

Favorite Activity
Hiking
Hiking

Holly Sanford

Senior Project Manager

“This land is your land, this land is my land…” — Woody Guthrie

Favorite Activity
Gardening
Gardening

Julie Wesnofske

Senior Project Manager

Favorite Activity
Farming
Farming

Vanessa Rojano

Project Assistant(she/her)

“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than [one] seeks”― John Muir.

Favorite Activity
Hiking
Hiking

Stewardship

Dan Heston

Director of Agricultural Programs

“Nature is both God’s ultimate challenge and balm for mind, body, and spirit.”

Rick Bogusch

Garden Director, Bridge Gardens

“We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good. We’ll do the best we know. We’ll build our house and chop our wood. And make our garden grow. And make our garden grow!” — From the musical Candide

Favorite Activity
Gardening
Gardening

Layton Guenther

Director, Quail Hill Farm(they/them)

“Matter doesn’t disappear, it transforms. Energy is the same way. The Earth is layer upon layer of all that has existed, remembered by the dirt.” — Adrienne Maree Brown

Favorite Activity
Hiking
Hiking

Jessie McSwane

Senior Stewardship Manager

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” — Pablo Picasso

Favorite Activity
Hiking
Hiking

Josh Halsey

Senior Environmental Programs Manager

“O medo de quem navega não é o mar, mas a terra.” — Amyr Klink

Favorite Activity
Gardening
Gardening

Robin L. Harris

Senior Stewardship Office Manager

“Being in nature’s presence transcends all of life’s cares.” — Unknown

Madison Aldrich

Farm Manager, Quail Hill Farm

Brendan Minogue

Stewardship Manager

“Conservation is a state of harmony between man and land.” 

Jackie Wilson

Stewardship Manager

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Favorite Activity
Fishing
Fishing

Thomas Corcoran

GIS Technician & Stewardship Coordinator

“He who binds to himself a joy, Does the winged life destroy. He who kisses the joy as it flies, Lives in eternity’s sunrise” — William Blake

Favorite Activity
Hiking
Hiking

Matthew Laspia

Garden Assistant

Jessica Murphy

Grant Administrator

Alex Doskoez

Land Steward Associate(He/ Him)

Marketing, Outreach & Education

Kathleen Kennedy

Senior Manager of Outreach

“Be we merry while we may and mindful of joy, for heaviness of the heart can be had at the asking.” — Taken from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Favorite Activity
Biking
Biking

Bridget Micieli-Martinez

Senior Marketing and Events Manager

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” - Ferris Bueller

Favorite Activity
Photography
Photography

Leslie Salmeron

Marketing and Communications Assistant

Favorite Activity
Hiking
Hiking

Erin Plitt

Marketing and Communication Assistant(she/they)

“Meanwhile the sun and clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.”

- Excerpt from Mary Oliver’s Wild Geese

Favorite Activity
Gardening
Gardening

Development

Amanda Abraham

Director of Development(she/her)

“Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.” — L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Karissa Raynor

Annual Giving and Grants Coordinator(she/her)

“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Olivia Waterhouse

Donor Relations Coordinator(she/her)

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.” — John Muir

‘Aleki Lui

Donor Information Specialist(he/him)

Elizabeth Ottati

Development Assistant(she/her)

Finance & Operations

Lori Mikula

Director of Finance

“Two roads diverged into the woods, and I - I took the ones less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” — R. Frost

Favorite Activity
Hiking
Hiking

Janine Beck

Manager of Accounting

Megan E. Cuddy

Administrative Assistant to President & Vice President

Favorite Activity
Gardening
Gardening

April Sohn

HR & Operation Assistant

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