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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”

Kathy Viatella

Kathy Viatella is the Senior Project Director with The Nature Conservancy (TNC). Since joining TNC in 2005, she has managed the San Diego project in Southern California, a site that has influenced how The Conservancy works at the state, national and international levels. She works with public and private partners to develop and implement innovativeContinue reading “Kathy Viatella”

Elizabeth Singleton

Singleton holds a B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. During her time there she spent a semester abroad at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, where she took courses on South African Public Administration and Environment and Development in Africa.  Singleton has done many thingsContinue reading “Elizabeth Singleton”

Sharon Safran

Safran graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1998 with a degree in Biological Aspects of Conservation. She spent a semester abroad at the School for International Training in Tanzania where her course work included field ecology, wildlife ecology, wildlife management and social and economic issues relating to Tanzania. In addition she took a summerContinue reading “Sharon Safran”