FMR - Key Persons
Aubre Parsons (she/her) brings five years of various accounting experience ranging from local low-income housing nonprofit accounting to global corporation internal audit and public accounting with a focus in tax. Aubre started a new career chapter in the spring of 2022 as an accountant at an architecture firm in St. Paul.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Field Instructor for NOLS
Chad Dayton is a passionate and seasoned outdoor educator. Having taught college English and writing for nearly a decade, Chad transitioned to outdoor education in 2009.
Chad has worked as a field instructor for NOLS, an instructor for the Wilderness Medicine Institute (NOLS), and Wilderness Inquiry - a Minneapolis-based international non-profit where he developed the national youth engagement program known as the Canoemobile. Chad also teaches courses on outdoor programming and environmental and place-based education for the University of Minnesota.
Education: BA, Skidmore College; MA, University of New Hampshire; MFA, University of Minnesota
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Founding Member
- Leader
Dr. Adriana Alejandro Osorio is a social justice leader and stands fearlessly firm on issues affecting children around the world. She has spent her career in the nonprofit and philanthropy sector, leading efforts that advance global health and development and amplify children's rights in the U.S. and abroad. At the Child Friendly Governance Project, Adriana spearheads the mobilization of resources that co-create and catalyze solutions benefitting children by strengthening child-friendly governance at all levels of society. She develops partnerships and business opportunities, leading the implementation of the organization's fundraising strategy.
Previously, she headed high net-worth development efforts, stewarded one of the first UNICEF Child Friendly Cities in the United States, cultivated private sector partnerships advancing the Sustainable Development Goals, and made targeted investments in the development of new tools and strategies to reduce the burden of infectious disease and the leading causes of child mortality in developing countries.
A native of the beautiful island of Puerto Rico, and having lived in Dutch St. Maarten, she considers the Caribbean the most sacred of places, and learned so much from the rivers and waterfalls and beaches that are located in the islands that saw her grow up. Her formal education, however, is her Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras and her Ph.D. in Biomolecular Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Job Titles:
- Vice Chair
- President of Broadview Collaborative, Inc
Lynn Broaddus, president of Broadview Collaborative, Inc., serves as a strategic advisor and facilitator for private sector, nonprofit and philanthropic clients throughout North America, and is known for bringing new ways of thinking to the crucial water and climate challenges of our day.
She is recognized for advancing concepts of distributed water infrastructure, for her 2019 report "Opportunities in Distributed Water Infrastructure (link is external)" and for her leadership of "Charting New Waters," a six-year dialogue convened by The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread, bringing hundreds of leaders to address U.S. water sustainability and resiliency.
Earlier in her career she held leadership roles with Milwaukee Riverkeeper®, The Nature Conservancy and NatureServe. She earned her Ph.D. from Duke University, her M.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her bachelor's degree in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia. Lynn is also a past board member/board president of the Water Environment Federation, River Network, River Alliance of Wisconsin, the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, and a former non-resident senior fellow with the Brookings Institution. Lynn is a native Virginian, who has lived in (and loved!) Minneapolis since 2017.
FMR Involvement: Lynn joined the board in 2023.
Education: Lynn earned her doctorate from Duke University in Evolutionary Biology, her MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her bachelor's degree in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia.
Interests or hobbies: Gardening (native plants and edibles) and landscape restoration, reading, bicycling, camping, paddling/rowing, and experiencing American prison life through the eyes of the incarcerated.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Strategy
Job Titles:
- Environmental Stewardship Institute Program Associate
Job Titles:
- Founding Director of the James
Ronnie Brooks is the founding director of the James P. Shannon Leadership Institute, a program of the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, providing a yearlong renewal experience for foundation and nonprofit organization leaders. Ronnie also consults on strategic planning, leadership development, and nonprofit organization governance and management.
When working in state government, Ronnie served as director of research for the Senate Majority and as special assistant to the Governor as well as on the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director - Development Director
Job Titles:
- Landscape Architect
- Senior Associate
- Senior Associate at SRF Consulting Group, Inc
Stewart Crosby is a Senior Associate at SRF Consulting Group, Inc., an engineering, planning and design firm based in Minneapolis. Stewart's work focuses on park and trail planning and design, historic preservation projects and streetscape design.
In addition to serving on FMR's board, Stewart also serves on the board of directors for the Quetico-Superior Foundation and is a member of the Minnesota Trust for Public Land Advisory Board. He has a bachelor of science from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon and a bachelors degree and a Masters in landscape architecture from the University of Oregon.
Professional experience: Attorney, Tilton & Dunn, PLLP
Education: J.D., New York Law School; B.S., University of Oregon
Member of the board and supporter of FMR since: 1994 (one of the original FMR board members); past chair of the FMR Board.
Board committees: Policy & Planning
Relevant affiliations: Numerous Environmental Organizations, Mississippi Whitewater Park Group. Also served on the Mississippi River Commission, which guided the establishment of the National Park Service Mississippi National River and Recreation Area.
Hobbies: Gardening, canoeing, kayaking, outdoor recreation.
Formerly Vice President of the Dental Plan for Health Partners of Minneapolis and Vice President of Strategy & Innovation for Delta Dental of Minnesota, Forrest Flint is now retired and resides in Edina. His extensive management background includes service as the director of Children, Youth and Family Services for the State of South Dakota and Vice President of Business Development for American Dental Partners, Inc. He has a bachelor's degree and a master's of public administration from the University of South Dakota. He is also a board member of the Voyageurs National Park Association and the National Association of Dental Plans.
Professional experience: Mississippi National River and Recreation Area: Superintendent, August 2014-December 2020; Chief Resource Management 2010-August 2014; Historian and Cultural Resources Specialist June 2000 to 2010; District Historian, St. Paul District, Corps of Engineers, 1980-2000 (Chief, District Cultural Resources Staff 1997-2000).
Education: B.A., History and Anthropology, M.A. and Ph.D., History, University of Minnesota.
Member of FMR Board since: 1994 (nonvoting since August 2014)
Board committees: Policy and Planning
Professional interests: John is the author of The River We Have Wrought: A History of the Upper Mississippi (University of Minnesota Press, 2005) and an author of River of History: A Historic Resources Study of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area (2003).
Professional experience: Real estate broker for 30 years with Cardinal Realty. Served 38th District as State Senator, 1993-2002, representing Eagan.
Education: Trained as a registered nurse, St. Marys Junior College.
FMR Board committee: Chair, Development Committee
Quote: I am honored to help preserve and protect a portion of America's artery.
Hobbies: Biking, traveling, cooking, being a grandma.