TRCP - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director of Private Lands Conservation
Aaron Field joined the TRCP as director of private lands conservation in June of 2022.
Previously, Aaron worked with North Dakota State University Extension and the North Dakota State Soil Conservation Committee as a leadership development specialist focusing on Soil Conservation District supervisors and staff. Aaron also spent four years as an assistant professor in the Agriculture and Rangeland Management program at Chadron State College in western Nebraska, where he taught courses in rangeland ecology and management.
Aaron earned his PhD in range science and an MS in natural resources management from North Dakota State University. His research there focused on monitoring changes in rangeland plant communities under different combinations of livestock and wildlife grazing. He also holds a BS in biology from the University of Jamestown.
Aaron resides in western Minnesota, where he enjoys fishing and hunting, especially for upland birds and waterfowl with his American Water Spaniels.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Director of Water Resources and Senior Counsel
- Its Director of Water Resources and Senior Counsel
Alex Funk joined the TRCP in August 2021 as its director of water resources and senior counsel.
In his role with the TRCP, Funk focuses on water policy and strategy. Funk previously served as the Agricultural and Rural Resiliency Policy Specialist at the Colorado Water Conservation Board, where he acted as the agency's liaison to agricultural stakeholders on federal and state water policy issues. In this role, he also assisted with the implementation of the Colorado Water Plan and represented CWCB in multiple venues, including Colorado's Natural Working Lands Task Force and the Colorado River Basin Salinity Forum. Previously, Funk was the Western policy director for the National Young Farmers Coalition, focusing on Farm Bill policy, and a fellow with American Rivers.
Funk earned his Juris Doctorate from Vermont Law School and his bachelor's degree in Environmental Policy and Planning from Virginia Tech. He serves on the South Platte Forum Board and the Colorado State University Food-Energy-Water Graduate Program external advisory board. He lives in Denver, Colo., with his family and can frequently be found mountain biking, backpacking, climbing fourteeners, and paddling his kayak around the West.
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- Pennsylvania Field Manager
Alexandra Kozak joined the TRCP in October 2021 as its Pennsylvania field manager.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Director
- Director of Government Relations
Andrew Earl joined the TRCP as director of private lands conservation in November 2019. He was promoted to director of government relations in December 2021.
Previously, Earl advised U.S. Senator Mike Crapo on agriculture and natural resource-related issues. With his help over a five-year period, their legislative team succeeded in reforming federal budgeting for wildfire suppression, enacted targeted land management reforms, and led several bipartisan efforts to achieve record appropriations for species and habitat conservation programs.
Earl is a graduate of the American University School of Public Affairs and a native of upstate New York. Outside the office, he enjoys hiking and camping in the Shenandoah Valley as well as trapshooting, fishing, and cooking.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Nevada Field Representative
Carl Erquiaga is a native Nevadan with a passion for hunting, fishing, wildlife, and spending time in the outdoors. Born and raised on the family farm, Erquiaga says his first memory of participating in practical wildlife management was protecting pheasant nests in the hay fields as a young boy.
Erquiaga enjoys upland bird hunting and the occasional fishing trip, but his real love is big-game hunting. In the fall, he can be found in the arid mountains and deserts of Nevada in pursuit of mule deer, pronghorns, or bighorn sheep-a lifelong devotion. He has served for nearly three decades on the board of directors for the Fallon Chapter of Nevada Bighorns Unlimited, where he assists in trapping, transporting, and releasing wild sheep. He has also helped construct water developments all over Nevada.
Erquiaga is excited to play an even more active role in the wildlife and habitat conservation arena with the TRCP. Having served as an elected county commissioner, Erquiaga brings a unique perspective and deep understanding of local government priorities in relation to state and federal agencies, public lands management, and the on-the-ground economic benefits of hunting and fishing in Nevada communities. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Wildlife Management from the University of Nevada-Reno and lives in Fallon, Nevada, with his wife, Lisa. They have three grown children who were raised with the same love of the outdoors.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director, Center for Marine Fisheries
Chris Macaluso is the Center for Marine Fisheries Director for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. He works with a host of advocacy and conservation organizations to advance habitat restoration efforts across the Gulf and improve federal fisheries management law and policy.
Macaluso is an avid angler and duck hunter and a lifelong Louisiana resident who has worked in the outdoors communication field for more than 20 years, hosting hunting and fishing radio shows and working as a freelance outdoor and sports writer, radio and TV host. He became the first-ever communications director for the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority in 2006 and handled media relations for the Authority during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
He left state-government in late 2010 to work as the Coastal Outreach Coordinator for the non-profit Louisiana Wildlife Federation helping to start the Vanishing Paradise Campaign that worked with outdoorsmen and the hunting and fishing industry to pass the RESTORE Act in 2012 before taking his current role at TRCP in 2013.
He and his wife Katie have a young son and daughter who both enjoy spending time in the swamps and marshes of Louisiana and the beaches along the Gulf Coast.
Job Titles:
- Chief
- Officer
- Bill & Linda Demmer Chief Conservation Officer
Christy Plumer joined the TRCP as the chief conservation officer in September 2016.
Previously, she spent a year working to advance solar and renewable energy policy with SolarCity as their northeast campaign director. As director of federal land programs at The Nature Conservancy, Plumer lobbied for improving conservation funding levels through the federal appropriations process, enhancing natural resources policy, and creating proactive solutions for fish and wildlife habitat conservation. She also spent two years as director of government relations for The Conservation Fund and seven years on Capitol Hill working for moderate Republicans, including Sen. John Chafee and Sen. Bob Smith. Plumer also served as staff director for the Senate Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Water under then-chairman Sen. Lincoln Chafee.
She holds a B.A. in Biology and Environmental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. in Environmental Studies from Brown University. She loves to flyfish, kayak, hike, and photograph beautiful spots in the great American outdoors.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Colorado Field Representative
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Government Relations Representative
Ian Nakayama joined the TRCP in June 2021 as its government relations associate.
He has worked in legislative offices since 2019, previously as an intern in Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton's office, and for Delegate Paul Krizek in the Virginia General Assembly.
A native Virginian, Nakayama studied Physics at the University of Virginia. He grew up fishing with his family and enjoys running, backpacking, and golfing in his free time.
Jaclyn Higgins joined the TRCP in September 2021 as its forage fish associate.
A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Jaclyn moved to the Gulf and earned her bachelor's degree in biology and marine science from the University of Alabama. She later became a scuba diving instructor in Panama and managed a diving company while working on coral reef conservation and community outreach initiatives. Jaclyn received her Master's in Marine Conservation from the University of Oviedo in Spain, where she worked on state-level policy for the Asturian algae fishery. In her free time, Jaclyn enjoys scuba diving, water sports, hiking, and spending time with friends and family. She has traveled to 13 countries, has lived in four, and hopes to continue exploring the world while based in Washington, D.C.
Jamelle Ellis joined the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership in 2022.
Jamelle spent the last three years as an environmental sustainability consultant specializing in developing mitigation strategies and environmental science research models for public and private organizations. She has more than 20 years of research experience focused on environmental contaminant delineation, exposures, and human health impacts. Jamelle has a broad range of experience in the environmental field, with engineering and science roles in academia, private, and public sectors. She has served as the technical liaison for remediation of hazardous waste at DOD sites and has extensive knowledge of federal environmental regulations including RCRA, CWA, NEPA, and MSFCMA. She has also served as the principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health grant to establish and evaluate baseline health assessments related to environmental exposures associated with port expansion.
Jamelle earned her M.S. in Environmental Engineering and Science from Clemson University where she studied spectral evaluation of petroleum products in-ground at a DOE Site. She earned her Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of South Carolina where she studied exposures to methylmercury through fishing and fish consumption patterns.
She is a native of Charleston, SC and enjoys bicycling, water sports, gardening, and going on new adventures with her family.
Job Titles:
- Director of Strategic Partnerships
Jared Romero joined the TRCP as director of strategic partnerships in February 2021.
He is a native of the San Luis Valley in Colorado. His love for the outdoors stems from his time camping, hunting, and fishing in the Rocky Mountains with family and friends.
Romero earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from Colorado State University-Fort Collins and his master's in Applied Natural Science from Colorado State University-Pueblo. He has worked in various aspects of conservation, ranging from boots-on-the-ground work as a wildland firefighter to research in ecological toxicology to experience as an educator and administrator.
Most recently, Romero spearheaded the development of One Health education and research at Boise State University. The One Health initiative focuses on the interconnected relationship of animal, human and environmental health through engaged collaborative thinking and complex problem-solving.
Job Titles:
- Alaska Field Representative
Jen Leahy brings 15 years of experience supporting fish and wildlife conservation to the TRCP. Her love of adventure-and salmon fishing-eventually led her from the Pacific Northwest to Alaska, where she spent several seasons working as a wilderness tour guide before planting her roots in the coastal community of Seward.
Prior to joining the TRCP in January 2020, Leahy served as the communications director at the Seward Chamber of Commerce, where she brought fresh perspectives to her work in sustainable tourism and rural economic development. Previously, she worked with fishing interests to reduce the bycatch of valuable species like Chinook salmon and halibut in Alaska's federal fisheries.
Leahy holds a bachelor's degree from Washington State University with an emphasis in political science and sustainable development. In her free time, you'll find her foraging, fishing, and hunting across Alaska's legendary public lands and waters.
Job Titles:
- Chief Development Officer
Jenni Henry has been with the TRCP since August 2013.
Henry has nearly twenty years of nonprofit fundraising experience in New York City, Chicago, and the D.C. area, most recently as the development director at Girls on the Run of Northern Virginia. At TRCP, Henry oversees all fund development for the organization, including individual giving, corporate sponsorships, foundation grants, and event-based fundraising.
Originally from Vienna, Virginia, Henry graduated with her Bachelor's degree from William & Mary and her Master's degree in Nonprofit Management from DePaul University. She has been an active member of the D.C. chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals since 2011.
In her spare time, Henry serves on the Board of the Outdoor Alliance, coaches a Special Olympics swim team, and sings with a D.C.-area choir. Henry also enjoys hiking, swimming, bike riding, cooking, and traveling. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
Job Titles:
- Secretary of the Board of Directors
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- Vice President of Western Conservation
Joel Webster joined the TRCP in 2007 and has spent much of the past two decades working alongside hunting and fishing groups, wildlife managers, decision makers, and agency leaders to shape federal public lands management for the benefit of fish, wildlife and sportspeople.
Webster was intimately involved in the conservation of national forest roadless areas and in the creation of the 2012 National Forest Planning Rule. He also helped lead a project alongside onX maps to identify 16.43 million acres of landlocked public lands across 22 states, while successfully advancing policies to open these lands to the public. Webster has worked to balance public lands energy development with other resources, safeguard big game migration corridors, and conserve unfragmented fish and wildlife habitat on public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
Webster lives in Missoula, Mont., and earned a Masters of Environmental Studies at the University of Montana.
John Cornell joined the TRCP as the New Mexico field representative in August 2016. As a resident of Sierra County and an avid sportsman, John has spent the past eight years as the sportsman coordinator for the New Mexico Wildlife Federation, working on public lands access, General Mining Act reform, and public lands protection in coordination with the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. He holds a bachelor's degree in forest management from Oklahoma State University and spent 30 years working in the forest products industry, and for more than half that time he also owned and operated his own business. John is president of Doña Ana County Associated Sportsmen, co-chairman of Southwest Consolidated Sportsmen, and a member of the U. S. Forest Service's Southern New Mexico Resource Advisory Committee, the Land Management Resource Advisory Committee to the BLM's Southwest District, and the Rio Grande Citizens Forum Board of the International Boundary Water Commission.
Job Titles:
- Field Representative
- Northeast Field Representative
John Gans joined the TRCP as Northeast field representative in early 2017.
A lifelong angler who grew up fishing the rivers and ponds of Vermont, his work is primarily focused on fisheries and expanding TRCP's profile in the Northeast. An energetic communicator, Gans seeks to bring together and motivate like-minded sportsmen who support science and policy directed at sustaining abundant fisheries. He holds a BA from the University of Vermont, where he studied environmental advocacy. When he is not working on issues impacting recreational fishing, you can find Gans fishing for striped bass in his home waters of New York or traveling in pursuit of redfish, tarpon, permit, bonefish, bass, and trout.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Energy and Wildlife Senior Advisor
- Field Representative
Jon Holst joined the TRCP as Colorado field representative in March 2021.
Holst brings to the TRCP 27 years of experience working on wildlife conservation and federal public land policy issues. Most recently, Holst worked for Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) and lead the agency's engagement in energy development and federal public land planning in the southwestern part of the state. Working with a broad coalition of stakeholders, Holst played a lead role during the state's original creation of oil and gas regulations pertaining to wildlife, as well as the recent update to those regulations. Prior to working at CPW, he worked for the Colorado Department of Transportation on wildlife and transportation issues. He has also served as in-house counsel for an oil and gas company, and as a consultant on federal public land development and wildlife conservation issues for a variety of private and non-governmental organizations.
Holst is a lifelong sportsman who grew up trapping and hunting in rural Colorado. When trapping muskrats could no longer pay the bills, he enrolled at Colorado State University where he earned a B.S. in biology and a M.S. in wildlife biology researching mule deer and elk migration patterns and behavior at road crossings. He also earned a J.D. at the University of Colorado School of Law.
Holst currently lives in Durango, and in his off-time can be found hunting, exploring on his mountain bike (sometimes hunting and exploring on his mountain bike), or planning his next travel adventure with his wife and two kids.
Job Titles:
- Wyoming Community Partnerships Coordinator
Josh joined the TRCP as its Wyoming community partnerships coordinator in November 2021.
Prior to joining the TRCP, Josh worked as a Professional Naturalist in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem for over a decade, seeking to instill a conservation ethos in visitors from all over the world. With a background in Natural Resources Management from Colorado State University, Josh is also an avid photographer and film producer, including the recent conservation film Denizens of the Steep.
When not working with diverse stakeholders to ensure a future for Wyoming's wildlife, Josh enjoys pursuing high country mule deer and elk, fly fishing, whitewater rafting, backpacking, backcountry skiing, and many of the other outdoor activities that make Wyoming special. Josh currently resides in Jackson, Wyoming.
Job Titles:
- Director of Program Development
- Its Director
Joshua Walters joined the TRCP as its director of program development in October 2021.
Joshua is an experienced nonprofit fundraising and financial management professional, and he has worked in higher education fundraising and financial services in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and Morgantown, W. Va.
A native of West Virginia, Joshua is a passionate outdoorsman and conservationist. He volunteers with the Ruffed Grouse Society and the West Virginia chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. In his spare time, you'll find him at his cabin surrounded by the Monongahela National Forest and with his English setter, Berkeley, hunting ruffed grouse in the Appalachian Mountains.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Kelsey Allison joined the TRCP team in September 2022.
Previously Kelsey worked for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks in the Communication and Education department where she managed the agency's social media platforms and external websites, designed graphics and layouts for digital, web and print, and worked on improving agency messaging.
Kelsey is a Montana native and enjoys spending time with her family fishing, hunting, camping, riding horses, throwing around the softball and being outside. She is excited to combine her passion for the outdoors with her career at TRCP.
Job Titles:
- Director of Foundation Relations
Kendra Davis, Director of Foundation Relations at the TRCP, joined the Partnership in January 2012. After graduating from Middlebury College in 2006, Kendra moved to Washington, D.C. where she worked at Trout Unlimited. Kendra worked for TU for four years, first from the organization's D.C. headquarters and later from Portland, Maine.
Kendra's affinity for the outdoors stems from her childhood in the Adirondacks. Her family spent summers camping and winters skiing. Both Kendra and her brother Lowell have competed in Nordic skiing and biathlons. Kendra plays piano, guitar and banjo and enjoys time spent with family and friends. She currently resides in Portland, Maine.
Job Titles:
- Media Relations Director
- Senior Director of Communications
Kristyn Brady joined the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership as media relations director and became the organization's director of communications in 2015.
Previously, Brady spent six years on the editorial staff of Field & Stream magazine, where she most recently served as assistant editor. During her tenure, she was responsible for identifying and highlighting nearly 100 extraordinary volunteers working to improve fish and wildlife habitat at the grassroots level through the magazine's Heroes of Conservation program. In 2011, she helped launch Hero for a Day, an online video series created to showcase local conservation projects across the country.
Brady studied dance growing up on the South Shore of Massachusetts and received her bachelor's degree from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She is fortunate to have had wonderful mentors in the outdoors as an adult onset sportswoman and currently enjoys fly fishing, target shooting, archery, and drinking coffee in a turkey blind. Her freelance writing appears occasionally in Dance Magazine.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Chief Communications Officer
Liz Ogilvie joined the TRCP as its chief communications officer in August 2021.
Ogilvie has worked in various segments of the recreational fishing industry-from retail to television to nonprofits-for more than 20 years. Most recently, she was the chief marketing officer of the American Sportfishing Association, where she oversaw the trade group's communications strategy, the Keep America Fishing advocacy campaign, and the fundraising and distribution of conservation grants by the FishAmerica Foundation.
Ogilvie holds a Bachelor's degree in Art History from Boston University, a master's degree in Nonprofit Management from Northeastern University, plus an advanced certification in wine and spirits knowledge from the Wine & Spirits Education Trust.
Fly fishing is her passion, and she loves to share her global travels chasing trout through published articles and photography. She also spent many years as a flyfishing instructor with L.L. Bean and will happily give a lesson to anyone who asks.
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- Colorado Field Representative
Liz Rose joined the TRCP in January 2022 as its Colorado field representative.
Prior to joining the TRCP, Rose was the Wyoming field coordinator for Trout Unlimited, where she tracked and weighed in on policies and planning initiatives that would impact Wyoming fisheries and angling opportunities. She established her career in conservation working with Backcountry Hunters & Anglers in Colorado on a master's project that was a core component of her Environmental and Natural Resources Policy master's degree from the University of Colorado Boulder. Before diving deep into public land and wildlife policy issues, Rose worked for 8 years as a geoscientist in the oil and gas industry and for the U.S. Geological Survey, and she holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Geology from the University of California Santa Cruz.
Rose's upbringing instilled in her a tireless love of plants, animals, food, and tradition, which drew her naturally to hunting and fishing as a young adult. Colorado is the state she knows and loves best, and she is dedicated to advocating for its wildlife, wild spaces, hunters, and anglers. Rose currently lives in Denver and enjoys spending as much time outside as possible trail running, fly fishing, floating rivers, snowboarding, or otherwise exploring public land, ideally with her old dog.
Job Titles:
- Director of Operations and People
- Its Director of Operations and People
Lynn Gill joined the TRCP as its director of operations and people in June 2022.
Gill has over twenty years of experience in human resources and operations, including 11 years in nonprofit Human Resources. Most recently she was the Director of Human Resources at Jefferson Consulting Group, a K street professional services firm. At TRCP, Gill oversees all human resources and office operations.
Originally from Latrobe, Pennsylvania, she grew up spending time at her family cabin on the banks of the South Branch of the Tionesta Creek in Warren County. Some of her fondest memories are her father teaching her how to fish, shoot, and helping him paint and tie the lead jigs he poured. Hiking, boating on the Alleghany reservoir, and tubing on the creek were all popular pastimes.
Gill graduated with her bachelor's degree from The American University in Washington, DC and holds a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) certification. She currently resides in DC with her husband Hal and spends her free time reading and tending to her herb garden.
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- Director, Center for Public Lands
Madeleine West joined the TRCP in January 2019.
Previously, West served as assistant director for parks, wildlife, and lands at the Colorado Department of Natural Resources. In this capacity, she developed state-level policy primarily related to wildlife, outdoor recreation, state lands, and forestry issues. She also led DNR's engagement in federal policies related to sage grouse and mitigation. She had been with the agency since 2013.
West has also served as wildlife program director at the Western Governors' Association, lobbied in the Colorado State legislature, consulted as a mediator/facilitator in Washington, D.C., and liaised with Congress while with the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Oceans, Environment, and Science.
West holds a master's degree in public administration from the University of Colorado Denver's School of Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Science degree in environmental and natural resource policy from Bates College. She resides in Denver, Colorado and enjoys spending time outside with her family.
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- Vice Chair of the Board of Directors
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- Deputy Director, Pacific Northwest
Michael joined the TRCP in the summer of 2018. He is a native Oregonian who grew up on a small farm just a stone's throw from the mouth of the mighty Columbia River. Early childhood trips salmon fishing on the Columbia and learning to stalk elk in the mossy forests of the Pacific Northwest hooked him with a passion for hunting and fishing in his home state.
Michael attended the University of Montana, where he received a bachelor's degree in Wildlife Biology, and has since worked for federal agencies and nonprofits. Most recently, he led the development and implementation of public and private land stewardship projects throughout eastern Oregon.
He currently lives outside of Sisters, Oregon, with his wife and two boys. In his time off, you can find him with his family, camping, fishing, and hunting in the many diverse landscapes of Oregon's wild country.
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- Climate Solutions Associate
Miranda Wolfe joined the TRCP in December 2021 as its conservation associate.
Wolfe earned her bachelor's degree with distinction in Environmental Sustainability and French Language & Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May of 2021. While at UNC, she was a chair of the environmental honors society and a coordinator of the NC Public Interest Research Group Sustainability Coalition in Chapel Hill.
Prior to joining the TRCP, Wolfe interned for a year and a half with the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust, where she aided in marketing and communications development, wrote and edited for the Journal, and managed the organization's Youth Ambassador Program.
In her free time, she enjoys hiking, cooking, and traveling home to N.C. to visit her family's West Highland Terrier, Bonnie.
Wyoming's wildlife, land, and outdoors culture is what drives Nick Dobric as TRCP's representative in the cowboy state. Nick works to ensure Wyoming's world-class hunting and fishing opportunities thrive, specifically focused on big-game migration corridors and public land management.
His background consists as working as a field biologist, hunting guide, and with other organizations on habitat conservation and political engagement. Nick received his Bachelor of Science degree from Northland College in northern Wisconsin and Leadership Wyoming class of 2020.
Nick lives in Dubois with his family where they enjoy the incredible hunting, fishing, and other outdoor adventures in some of the wildest country that can be found in the west, and he volunteers on his town's fire department and recreation board.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
Patrick Donovan joined TRCP as its chief policy officer in January 2022.
Previously, Donovan spent six years in the U.S. Senate where he led Senator Michael Bennet's work on agriculture, public lands, and natural resources. In this role, he developed and passed legislation to improve wildlife habitat, protect public land, and invest in climate resilience. Before joining Bennet's office, Donovan served as a NOAA Sea Grant Knauss Fellow in Senator Gary Peters' office where he helped advance proposals on water infrastructure and the Great Lakes.
Donovan earned his Ph.D and M.S. from the University of Michigan where he studied the movement of mercury in aquatic systems and taught courses on geology, ecosystem science, and energy development. While at the University of Michigan, he also earned a graduate certificate in Science, Technology, and Public Policy from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He holds a B.S. in geochemistry from Western Michigan University.
He is a Michigan native and enjoys backpacking, bowhunting, and getting outside with his family.
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- Treasurer of the Board of Directors
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- Western Communications Manager
Randall Williams joined the TRCP as Western Communications Manager in April 2018. Previously, he worked as an editor for Montana The Magazine of Western History and the Montana Historical Society Press. Prior to that, he worked as a fishing guide in Alaska and earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Montana, where his research explored the evolving significance of hunting in twentieth-century American politics and culture.
A native Midwesterner, Randall grew up outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, and received a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago. He lives in Missoula with his wife Sydney and loves to hunt, fish, camp, hike, and otherwise explore the public lands of the West-usually accompanied by two poorly trained Labrador retrievers, Arlo and Rosie.
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- Development and Operations Associate
Rees Wilson joined the TRCP as its development and operations associate in February 2022.
Wilson earned her bachelor's degree in Arts Administration from the University of Virginia. She then attended Sotheby's Institute of Art in London to achieve an MA in Art Business. Wilson received high honors for both her undergraduate and graduate dissertations. Prior to joining TRCP, Wilson worked in development and client services for different art institutions in DC, Austin, Charlottesville, and London.
An Austin, Texas native, Wilson grew up playing tennis, fishing, hiking, sailing, and wakeboarding both with her family and at a popular Texas summer camp. Whenever possible, her family made the trip out to Colorado to ski in the winter and bike in the summer. She currently resides in DC and spends her free time exploring the city and its nearby parks and trails.
Job Titles:
- Idaho Field Representative
Rob Thornberry, who joined the TRCP in February 2016 as the Idaho Field Representative, has spent his life chasing animals and fish across the West's stunning public lands. A journalism graduate from the University of Colorado, Rob reported on outdoor issues for nearly three decades and wrote a weekly outdoor column for The Post Register in Idaho.
Public lands have been his playground since he first started chasing sage grouse across the rolling hills of northwestern Colorado. When not working to ensure sportsmen's access to public lands, Rob can be found swinging a steelhead fly, busting through rapids, or hunting for elk in his beloved eastern Idaho. He and his wife Margaret are proud parents of two grown children
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Development and Events Manager
- Its Development and Events Manager
Sam Kasner joined the TRCP as its development and events manager in March 2022.
Prior to working with the TRCP, Sam worked as an events coordinator for the World Wildlife Fund, where she managed donor events across the country. Sam earned her MBA at the University of Mary Washington while working as a graduate assistant for new student orientation. She also earned her BS in Psychology from UMW.
Born in New York City, Sam grew up in Northern Virginia playing soccer, reading, hiking, and camping. Sam currently resides in DC and can be found at various sporting events, trying different restaurants, or on long walks with her dog, Kanto.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Montana Field Representative
Scott Laird joined the TRCP as Montana Field Representative in February 2016 after working for more than 25 years in natural resource conservation work across the West.
Scott earned a master's degree in Veterinary Parasitology from Oklahoma State University and started his natural resource work as a conservation officer for the state of New Mexico. He then joined the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation where he worked for the next 14 years in several different conservation roles, most recently as director of private land stewardship. Scott also spent several years with the American Prairie Reserve as director of land acquisition.
Based out of the TRCP's new office in Missoula, Mont., Scott works on behalf of sportsmen and women to protect the wildlife resources that we all love. He enjoys hunting and fishing in and around his home in Lolo, Mont., and spending time outdoors with his two children, Ali and Simms.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Director
- Director of Climate Solutions
Tiffany joined the TRCP as director of climate solutions in February 2021.
She has over 15 years of experience in environmental health, most recently at Chevron, where she had the opportunity to shape environmental and sustainability strategies and build partnerships for careful stewardship of the environment.
Originally from Kentucky, and with limited entertainment options in rural Appalachia, she quickly learned to appreciate the gift of having a national park for a backyard.
Turner holds a B.S. in Environmental Health Science from Eastern Kentucky University and an M.P.H. in Environmental Health Science from the University of Michigan. She loves hiking, kayaking, camping (just don't ask her to build a fire), and helping her children fill up their national park passports.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
Whit Fosburgh is the president and CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership.
Prior to coming to the TRCP in 2010, Fosburgh spent 15 years at Trout Unlimited, playing a critical role in the organization's evolution into a conservation powerhouse. Additionally, he served as fisheries' director for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, was the chief environment and energy staff member for Sen. Tom Daschle, and was a wildlife specialist for the National Audubon Society. In 2015, he was honored as the Conservation Partner of the Year by Bass Pro Shops.
Fosburgh grew up hunting and fishing in upstate New York and was a member of Team USA in the 1997 World Fly Fishing Championships. He has a BA in Government from Georgetown University and a Master's degree from the Yale University School of Forestry. He coached crew at the collegiate level for 15 years.