Senior Leadership
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
Yvette DeBow-Salsedo
Vice President(she/her)
“The Earth is what we all have in common.” — Wendell Berry
Favorite Activity
Visit a Farmstand/Tasting Room
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
Melanie A. Tebbens
Vice President
“May you always have a shell in your pocket and sand in your shoes!”
Favorite Activity
Paddling
Stewardship
Dan Heston
Director of Agricultural Programs
“Nature is both God’s ultimate challenge and balm for mind, body, and spirit.”
Favorite Activity
Fishing
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
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
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
Josh Halsey
Senior Environmental Programs Manager
“O medo de quem navega não é o mar, mas a terra.” — Amyr Klink
Favorite Activity
Gardening
Robin L. Harris
Senior Stewardship Office Manager
“Being in nature’s presence transcends all of life’s cares.” — Unknown
Favorite Activity
Gardening
Brendan Minogue
Stewardship Manager
“Conservation is a state of harmony between man and land.”
Favorite Activity
Hiking
Jackie Wilson
Stewardship Manager
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Favorite Activity
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
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
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
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
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
Favorite Activity
Hiking
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
Favorite Activity
Visit a Farmstand/Tasting Room
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
Favorite Activity
Hiking
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