Staff
Senior Leadership
John v.H. Halsey
President
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
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
Melanie A. Tebbens
Vice President of Agricultural Programs
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it." -Pastor Charles Swindoll
Elisa Ruoff
Vice President of Development
Land Conservation
Jessica Murphy
Director of Conservation Initiatives
she/her
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished – Lao Tzu
Julie Wesnofske
Senior Project Manager
Holly Sanford
Senior Project Manager
"This land is your land, this land is my land..." — Woody Guthrie
Megan E. Cuddy
Senior Project Assistant
Stewardship
Jessie McSwane
Director, Stewardship
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." — Pablo Picasso
Alex Doskoez
Land Steward Associate
he/ him
Josh Halsey
Senior Environmental Programs Manager
"O medo de quem navega não é o mar, mas a terra." — Amyr Klink
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
Robin L. Harris
Senior Stewardship Office Manager
"Being in nature's presence transcends all of life's cares." — Unknown
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
Matthew Evensen
Garden Assistant, Bridge Gardens
Agriculture
Dan Heston
Senior Director of Agricultural Programs
“Nature is both God’s ultimate challenge and balm for mind, body, and spirit.”
Brendan Minogue
Stewardship Manager
"Conservation is a state of harmony between man and land."
Madison Aldrich
Senior Farm Manager, Quail Hill Farm
Jackie Wilson
Senior Manager, Agricultural Programs
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marketing, Outreach & Education
Bridget Q. Micieli-Martinez
Director, Marketing & Events
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
- Ferris Bueller
Kathy 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
Erin Plitt
Marketing and Communication Associate
she/they
“... I’d rather be a forest than a street. Yes, I would. If I could, I surely would.
I’d rather feel the earth beneath my feet. Yes, I would. If I only could, I surely would”
- El Condor Pasa, song by Simon and Garfunkel
Liliana Albarracin
Marketing and Communications Assistant
Development
Elizabeth Gillooly
Major & Planned Gifts Officer
she/her
"Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.”
Courtney Fitt
Development Officer
she/her
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" - Aristotle misquote
‘Aleki Lui
Donor Database Technician
he/him
Elizabeth Ottati
Development Operations Associate
she/her
"The axe forgets what the tree remembers." - African Proverb
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
Janine Beck
Accounting Manager
April Sohn
HR & Operation Assistant
“There is no better compass than compassion.”
— Amanda Gorman
Michelle Gagliardo
Finance and Data Assistant
Aisha Howie
Recepcionista
ella/su
"Hay una vitalidad, una fuerza vital, un avivamiento que se traduce a través de ti en acción, y solo hay uno de ti en todo el tiempo, esta expresión es única, y si la bloqueas, nunca existirá a través de ningún otro medio; y se perderá. El mundo no la tendrá. No es tu asunto determinar qué tan buena es, ni cómo se compara con otras expresiones. Tu asunto es mantenerla tuya de manera clara y directa, mantener el canal abierto..." - Martha Graham