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
“May you always have a shell in your pocket and sand in your shoes!”
Conservation Programs
Holly Sanford
Senior Project Manager
"This land is your land, this land is my land..." — Woody Guthrie
Julie Wesnofske
Senior Project Manager
Vanessa Rojano
Project Assistant
she/her
“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than [one] seeks”― John Muir.
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
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
Jessie McSwane
Director, Stewardship
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." — Pablo Picasso
Josh Halsey
Senior Environmental Programs Manager
"O medo de quem navega não é o mar, mas a terra." — Amyr Klink
Jackie Wilson
Senior Manager, Agricultural Programs
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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."
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
Alex Doskoez
Land Steward Associate
he/ him
Matthew Laspia
Garden Assistant
Jessica Murphy
Grant Administrator
she/her
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished – Lao Tzu
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
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
Leslie Salmeron
Digital Communication Associate
Erin Plitt
Marketing and Communication Assistant
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
Development
Karissa Raynor
Grants and Annual Giving Manager
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 Manager
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 Database Technician
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
Janine Beck
Manager of Accounting
Megan E. Cuddy
Administrative Assistant to President & Vice President
April Sohn
HR & Operation Assistant
“There is no better compass than compassion.”
— Amanda Gorman