Caroline Munger, Co-Chair

Caroline Munger

Caroline brings extensive education and experience in the area of public lands and its respective legal issues. She holds an advanced law certification (LLM) from the Wallace Stegner Center at the University of Utah School of Law where her studies were focused on tribal, water, public land, and natural resource issues in the west. She has worked as a water counselor with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, handled a variety of oil and gas regulatory issues, and litigated both occupational and environmental toxic torts.

Rynda Clark, Co-Chair

Rynda Clark is passionate about wilderness, women, healing, and education. She directed the Department of Continuing Medical Education (CME) at UC San Diego for 17 years and was responsible for the needs assessment, planning, execution, and evaluation of national and international medical education programs.

After relocating to Central Oregon in 2007, Rynda began hiking with women in wilderness areas and rekindled her love for wild places that began when she was growing up in New Mexico. She shared, “…wilderness allowed me to connect with my health and spirituality in a way that nothing else did. I wanted to protect it for our future generations”.

Rynda was attracted Broads because of her love of wild things, but also for the humor, wisdom, and humility she witnessed from Broads members and staff. Three years ago, she volunteered to be the Co-lead for the newly forming Central Oregon Broadband chapter, where she helped build a shared leadership model that allows opportunities for many passions and visions. She also completed the Oregon Master Naturalist program to learn more about environmental issues in her region. Although Rynda stepped down from a Broadband leadership role, she continues active engagement with her chapter, and has join Broads’ Board of Directors.

Micky Ryan, Vice Chair

Micky Ryan

Micky spent her law career representing low income tenants with housing problems and her spare time in the outdoors of the Pacific Northwest. She came to Oregon from Ohio for law school and after experiencing the mountains, forests, and coast of Oregon, she never went back. She had heard about the Great Old Broads for years, and just as she was retiring, a local chapter was forming in her home base of Portland. For four years, she co-led the Cascade Volcanoes Broadband and continues to be actively involved locally in addition to serving on the Broads’ Board of Directors.

Cristina Harmon, Treasurer

Cristina Harmon

Cristina grew up in Northern California hiking, camping, backpacking and skiing in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Bay Area, Yosemite and Arizona. She moved to Colorado in 1988 and added kayaking and river rafting to her regular outdoor adventures. More recently, Cristina spends spring and fall in Southern Utah canyoneering and hiking. A lifetime spent in the wilds has given her a deep love of wild places. Cristina’s business background includes stints as a radio news reporter, business owner and tax accountant. Cristina hopes to combine her love for wild places and business experience to further the mission of Great Old Broads for Wilderness and the important work we do to mother earth and bring attention to important environmental issues.

Antonia Daly, Secretary

Antonia Daly

Antonia, a native New Yorker, has been fascinated with wilderness and western land issues for several decades. She began hiking and camping in wilderness and public lands with her young children in 1972, recognizing the spiritual value imparted by spending time in wild nature. A recently retired high school teacher at an independent school in New York City, she instituted the Environmental Studies course in 1996, incorporating wilderness education and trips into her classes. She chaired the Sustainability and the Building and Grounds Committees for the school, advocating green practices. She has joined Great Old Broads to extend the voice, concerns and stewardship of the Western US to citizens of the East. She is currently writing a children’s book on climate change.

Suez Jacobson

Suez Jacobson

Suez came to Broads through her son, Tim Peterson, who worked on the Broads’ Healthy Lands project. With a lifetime of hiking, camping and backpacking adventures in the Wasatch Mountains near her childhood home in Utah, and in her home now in Colorado, she brings a passion for wilderness grounded in the issues and her ongoing study of the wilderness canon.

Trained as an economist at the University of Utah, Suez has worked both in the corporate world as a financial economist doing research and as an academic teaching at public and private universities in the US and  abroad.  Suez retired as a professor from Regis College in Denver in May 2018,  where her courses included economics, finance, and global environmental courses titled “Wilderness: A Story of Passion and Perseverance” and “Consumption, Contentment, & Climate Change.”

In late 2018, with the support of Great Old Broads, and working with Dave Devine, a digital media specialist at Regis’ Dayton Memorial Library, Suez finished a film “Wild Hope” which has screened at film festivals, conferences, churches, universities, and conservation organization events. “Wild Hope” tells the story of our deep spiritual connection to the natural world, a connection that has the power to rewire our brains, take us back to our deepest roots, and change how we think and act in a world needing our care. For more on “Wild Hope” visit the website wildhopefilm.com .

Carl Rountree

Carl comes to the Board with more than 35 years of public land management experience in Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Washington, D.C. Office and several Western states. Before his retirement in 2014, he served as the Assistant Director of BLM’s National Landscape Conservation System. In this role, he led efforts to better protect and raise awareness of BLM’s 32-million acres of wilderness and other nationally designated conservation areas, and to promote greater conservation in BLM’s public land management. Throughout his career, he has championed collaborative approaches to resolving natural resource issues. He led efforts to create the California Biodiversity Council as the California BLM Deputy State Director for Resources. As the Arizona BLM Associate State Director, he helped organize federal, state, and local agencies to deal more effectively to reduce migrant deaths and resource damage along the Arizona-Mexico border.  Since his retirement, he has continued to advocate for the designation and protection of conservation areas and to build greater, more effective partnerships for managing public lands.

Julie Weikel

Julie spent nearly her entire life in the Great Basin. Born in Winnemucca, Nevada, she worked for decades in Eastern Oregon as large-animal veterinarian and consultant, helping ranchers to ensure the health of their herds and to make sure family ranches remain profitable. When not on the job, she spent several weeks a year running rivers, volunteering with numerous organizations in wilderness, and working with conservation entities to preserve our irreplaceable, precious public lands.

Mary O’Brien

​Mary O’Brien is a botanist who has worked for toxics reform, environmental law, and public lands conservation organizations for 36 years. Since 2003, Mary has been Utah Forests Program Director for Grand Canyon Trust, a Colorado Plateau regional conservation organization. The Trust has worked closely with the Broads since 2003.