Heather Bergerud Nix joined the Upstate Forever staff in 2007 and is the Director of the Clean Air & Water Program, where she leads a variety of advocacy and outreach efforts. Nix received her BS in Biology from Winthrop University. Before joining Upstate Forever, Heather was a project manager at an environmental consulting firm. HerContinue reading “Heather Nix”
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Nnaemeka Ikeqwuonu
Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu is a leading social entrepreneur and Executive Director of The Smallholders Foundation, a social development organization based in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria. The organization promotes sustainable agricultural development and environmental conservation beneficial to rural poor small farmers, through educational radio programs and field practical demonstrations. Ikeqwuonu holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in HistoryContinue reading “Nnaemeka Ikeqwuonu”
Rachel Holmes
Rachel Holmes is an urban forester working for Groundwork Bridgeport, a non-profit based in Bridgeport, Connecticut dedicated to improving the lives of residents through community-based landscape restoration. At Groundwork Bridgeport, Holmes is developing and implementing a horticulture-based professional development program for underserved youth. She has returned to this work after serving as an urban foresterContinue reading “Rachel Holmes”
Danielle Nicholas
Danielle Nicholas is Founder and Manager of Eagle Ridge Ranch Beef, LLC, a grassfed beef business focusing on supplying exceptionally high-quality, sustainably-raised beef to Southwestern Montana and beyond. Nicholas is interested in promoting the complex tastes of grassfed beef as a way to increase current market share of sustainably raised beef. Before launching Eagle Ridge RanchContinue reading “Danielle Nicholas”
Paul F.R. Corens
Paul Corens is a Senior Investment Portfolio Manager for the Arizona Public Safety Pension and is currently responsible for over $1.2 billion of physical assets around the world including timber, wetland, agriculture, infrastructure, oil & natural gas, power generation & transmission, minerals & mining, and real estate investments. Paul is responsible for allocating investment capitalContinue reading “Paul F.R. Corens”
Aaron Citron
Aaron Citron is a Policy Analyst for Environmental Defense Fund’s Colorado River Project based in Boulder, Colorado. His work is focused on agricultural water use, conservation and efficiency, and interstate water management. He is currently a member of the Bureau of Reclamation’s Colorado River Basin Study Agricultural Conservation & Transfers Work Group. He is primarilyContinue reading “Aaron Citron”
Jorge David Chapas
Jorge David Chapas Muralles is from Guatemala and he graduated as a agronomist focus on renewable natural resources. Currently works as the executive director of Red de Amigos de la Naturaleza (Rana), a think tank that promote the ideas of private property and free markets as a solution to environmental problems. Also is the managerContinue reading “Jorge David Chapas”
Jennifer Boyer
Jennifer Boyer is the director of Future West in Bozeman, Montana. Jennifer Boyer has directed and organized Western watershed groups including the Lower Rogue River in Oregon and the Big Hole River in Montana. She has served as the co-chair of the Montana Watershed Coordination Council and led or organized several community-based planning efforts andContinue reading “Jennifer Boyer”
Sarah Bellos
Sarah Bellos is president of Stony Creek Colors, a natural colorants company working to connect U.S. farmers to industrial colorant markets. Stony Creek Colors’ goal is to increase the sustainability and resilience of agricultural ecosystems in the Southeast US by developing the market for high quality, plant-based colorants. Stony Creek Colors’ natural colorants will replaceContinue reading “Sarah Bellos”
Tara Wood
Wood graduated from Oxford University in 2000 with a B.A. in Biological Sciences. She has worked on a conservation project in the Indonesian Rainforests, picked fruit in Stanthorpe, Australia, and volunteered for a rural development in Kenya, where she planned and organized a borehole survey with The African Medical and Research Foundation. She is currentlyContinue reading “Tara Wood”