Meet The Board of Directors

Karen Cox - Co-Chair
Nevada City, CA
Karen has had a long career with the San Francisco Public Library. She is currently board member and vice-president of the Rural Quality Coalition and has served as the Conservation Chair with the Sierra Nevada Chapter of the Sierra Club. She currently serves as Treasurer for the Board.

Steve Gilbert
Helena, MT
Steve Gilbert has been a Montana resident for 38 years. For 35 of these years he has worked as a biological consultant. Separate from his business, Steve worked in Alaska on salmon studies, Yellowstone Park on grizzly bears, the Teton Wilderness on an early satellite/radio-telemetry study with elk, did wildlife inventories in the North Cascades and Pasayten Wilderness in Washington, studied Icelandic gulls on Baffin Island, NWT and cliff-nesting raptors in Glacier Park. He is an associate with the Montana Peregrine Institute, and has conducted neo-tropical bird and raptor surveys in the west nearly every year since 1971. Steve is a strong environmental advocate and served on the board of Northern Plains Resource Council and is presently in his 6th year on the Montana Environmental Information Center (MEIC) board. He was chosen the MEIC Community Activist of the Year in 2003. He has testified in the Montana Legislature and U.S. Senate on water and air quality, soils, aquatics and wildlife habitat issues relating to irresponsible energy development, coal and hard-rock mines. We are excited to have his knowledge, experience, expertise and passion on our board.

Ginger Harmon
Ketchum, ID
Ginger is one of the founding members of Great Old Broads for Wilderness. She is an avid hiker who has worked tirelessly for over a decade monitoring several grazing allotments in southern Utah. She is a strong citizen voice in influencing the management of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Margi Hoffman - Treasurer
Portland, OR
Margi Hoffmann was raised on a ranch in northwest Colorado. She's spent a lifetime running rivers, hiking, backpacking and brumbling in the Rocky Mountains and the desert southwest. She has worked with advocacy groups, including Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, and in government to protect what is left of the West's wildlands, particularly at the heart of the Colorado Plateau. She currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

Libby Ingalls - Co-Chair
San Francisco, CA
Libby has had a long career in museum work and is now spending time hiking, backpacking and studying botany. She is a long-time member and Board member of Broads. Libby currently serves as Co-Chair of the Board.

Pam Meier
Madison, Connecticut
Born and raised in Connecticut, Pam Meier inherited a deep love of wild places from generations of naturalists.  Having spent many years advocating to protect open space around her own home, Pam sees joining the Board of Directors of Great Old Broads as a natural extension of her local advocacy work. Pam is actively involved in trying to protect the open land around her and has served on the board of her local Land Trust. In 2002, Pam founded a co-ed environmental club for kids and last year initiated a Schoolyard Habitat/Classroom project at the local middle school.  Public land issues on the East Coast may differ somewhat from battles in the West, but as the newest member of the Board of Directors, Pam’s familiarity with many wild places in the north- (and south-) east, from the Green Mountain National Forest to the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee, will help Broads reach further afield and reach out to our East Coast members.

Lynn Prebble
Silver Cliff, CO
Lynn has a long history of wilderness experience.  She has summitted several difficult peaks, including Denali, Aconcagua, Everest South Summit, and Cho Oyu, as well as climbed in Europe, South America, Mexico, and the United States.  Lynn has also guided in the mountains of Colorado, has written climbing/mountaineering articles, and given numerous talks on her wilderness experiences.  After seeing many environmental problems while out climbing and hiking, Lynn is eager to be part of the solution.  “What better group than the Great Old Broads to increase awareness of wilderness issues to protect our wild lands for future generations,” says Lynn.

Donna Smith - Secretary
Washington, DC
After spending five years as legislative counsel for California Representative Susan Davis, and a previous 16 years in education as a teacher and administrator, Donna retired in 2005. Donna now devotes her time to her passions: the environment, music, and her grandchildren. During her tenure as legislative counsel, Donna handled what she refers to as the three Es: environment, energy, and education. Donna's strong legal and legislative background has already proven to be helpful as Broads develops strategies to improve public lands management policies and protect more wilderness-quality lands. Donna's proximity to "The Hill" also allows her to speak as a representative of Broads to various congressional leaders and attend important hearings when necessary.

Sally Ferguson
Boise, Idaho
Sally grew up in Portland, Oregon, where her love of the outdoors grew, spending as much time as possible on skis or hiking and backpacking in nearby wild lands. “Winter sports are my first love,” she said, “so moving to Idaho was a natural for me.” She moved to Idaho in 1978 and to Boise in the late 1980s where she encountered the nascent Winter Wildlands Alliance. She was their first Grassroots Program Director and, for the next 6 years, she developed an impressive national network that now includes 26 groups in 11 states. She is currently working for the Student Conservation Association, which is a national organization that coordinates college and high school internships with land management agencies. "We're focused on developing generations that will have conservation values," she said. Sally brings her passion for wilderness values along with a wealth of experience in event organizing, grassroots fund raising, and volunteer coordinating.

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