Meet The Board of Directors

Karen Cox - Vice-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.

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.

Libby Ingalls
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.

Saralaine Millet
Tucson, AZ
Saralaine soaked up wilderness lore as a child from her father who worked as a surveyor in the Everglades. She took her own first wilderness hikes in the Smokey Mountains of North Carolina, and enjoyed exploring Sahara desert wadis in Egyptian Nubia in the sixties. While raising three kids in Toronto, she served on the Board of Directors of La Leche League Canada, and is currently a volunteer at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, a native plant enthusiast and xeriscape gardener at her home in the Arizona Upland section of the Sonoran Desert west of Tucson.

Karen Ryman
Aspen, CO
Karen Ryman fell in love with the great outdoors as a girl in California where she went on many Girl Scout camping trips in the San Bernardino Mountains. But her appreciation for the environments in which she hiked and camped was awakened and cultivated by Great Old Broads for Wilderness founder Dottie Fox after she moved to Dottie’s backyard in the early 1960s - Aspen, Colorado. She volunteers with the Forest Conservancy as a volunteer Ranger at Maroon Bells Scenic Area and as a trail monitor in White River National Forest. She is also a volunteer with the Wilderness Workshop that is advocating for the protection, as congressionally designated wilderness, of 477,000 acres of wild land in the Hidden Gems of Colorado.

Amy Shima
Rockville, UT
For most of Amy’s professional career, she has practiced wildlife/zoo medicine.  As a staff member of the San Diego Zoo, she was involved with the California Condor Recovery program as well as a number of other endangered species programs.  She has also filled in for others as a temporary veterinarian at a number of zoos in the US and Australia.  “I have always felt that it is a great privilege to be able to work with wild animals, whether they are in the wild (where we wish they could live but may not be able to safely due to the pressures created by too many people) or in captivity where their presence can serve to educate and enlighten people who now live far removed the natural world.”  Amy hopes to bring “Broadness” to more people. She wants to “encourage and empower people to get out, enjoy and do something with other Great Old Broads to help ‘Mother’ Nature.”

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.

Lois Snedden - Chair
Reno, NV
Lois has been a wilderness and wild lands activist for more than 25 years. In 1982, she embarked on a volunteer career with the Sierra Club where she led local and national outings, chaired the Toiyabe Chapter (in Reno), and held most chapter positions including political, state legislative, and fundraising. She served a three-year term on the Sierra Club Board's Executive Committee. No longer on the Sierra Club board, she now focuses her efforts on desert issues, including the siting of transmission lines and solar power plants, and on mining. And she serves on the Steering Committee for the California-Nevada Regional Conservation Committee as Nevada Vice-Chair.

Shelley Spalding
WA

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