Katharine Dion
Alum 2020, Fellow 2020Katharine Dion is a writer and Buddhist eco-chaplain devoted…
Savala Nolan
Alum 2020, Alum 2023, Board of Directors, Fellow 2020Savala Nolan is a writer, speaker, and lawyer. She is executive…
Tiffany Golden
Alum 2020, Fellow 2020Tiffany Golden is a children's author and teaching artist, specializing…
Adam Strauss
Alum 2020Adam Strauss is a writer and performer whose work encompasses…
Margaret Russell
Alum 2020, Fellow 2020Margaret Russell has been a member of the Santa Clara University…
Kim Klein
Board PresidentKim Klein’s journey to become a pioneer in teaching small nonprofits…
Allen E. Smith
Alum 2004Allen E. Smith is a writer and consultant on Alaska public land issues. He served on The Wilderness Society for eighteen years as the Alaska Senior Policy Analyst, Alaska Regional Director and Vice President. He was President of Defenders of Wildlife for four years and Executive Officer Land and Natural Resources Division for the U.S. Department of Justice for three years. At the Mesa Refuge, Allen wrote about Alaska as seen through the stories of the land and its people their dependence on wildlands for economic sustainability and Alaska's connections to the lower 48.
Kelly Sterns
Alum 2004Kelly Sterns is a nationally award-winning poet and teacher with a passionate interest in trailer park culture. Her previous work includes My Home Has Wheels, an oral history and essay project with mobile home dwellers in her Albuquerque New Mexico community and in trailer parks across the nation. At the Mesa Refuge, Kelly wrote Talking Trash (Trailer Trash), about environmentally-focused materials geared toward the nation's 20 million trailer park residents on issues such as recycling water use and local environmental action.
Guy Hand
Alum 2004Guy Hand is a freelance writer and radio producer. He has contributed to NPR's Living On Earth, Radio High Country News, and Public Radio Weekend as well as print publications including the Los Angeles Times, Audubon, Sierra, Orion, Northern Lights, DoubleTake and others. In 2002 the Society of Environmental Journalists named his two-part radio series on Alaska's Tongass National Forest the best feature radio piece of the year. The Nieman Foundation called the series a lesson in the art of radio.
Edward C. Wolf
Alum 2004Edward C. Wolf has written or edited several books on people, living resources and natural hazards in the Pacific Northwest including Klamath Heartlands: A Guide to the Klamath Reservation Forest Plan (Ecotrust/OSU Press, 2004), Salmon Nation (Ecotrust/OSU Press, 2003) and A Tidewater Place (Mountaineers Books, 1993).
Carolyn McConnell
Alum 2003Carolyn McConnell is Senior Editor at Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures, a publication that explores strategic opportunities in the process of shaping a more sustainable world. Carolyn has published articles and reviews in Salon, High Country News, Orion and the Baltimore Sun. At the Mesa Refuge, Carolyn worked on The Way Through: Memoir of a Claim to Place, a memoir about her family’s connection to North Cascade lands.
Ann Wendland
Alum 2003Ann Wendland is Publicity Manager at the University of Arizona Press, BoardChair of Kore Press and a former park ranger. At the Mesa Refuge, Ann completed a collection of essays drawing from her experiences across the United States seeking examples of people living in sustainable harmony with their
ecosystems. She hopes to tell stories “that show humans to be a beautiful, if adolescent, evolutionary experiment.”