Meet the Broads’ Team
Shelley Silbert, Executive Director
Shelley joined Broads in 2012, bringing 20 years of experience in the fields of conservation and sustainability. She served as Associate Director for San Juan Citizens Alliance from 2011–2012, Director of Strategic Initiatives at Northern Arizona University from 2003–2011 where she advanced environmental…
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Lauren Berutich, Associate Director
Lauren has nearly 20 years of experience teaching environmental education, grassroots organizing, conservation and stewardship coordination, advocacy, and public work for sustainable community development. She served as Broads’ Grassroots Leadership Director for nearly four years, overseeing the training, guidance, and support of volunteer…
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Susan Kearns, Communications Director
Susan has a diverse background in communications, graphic design, and marketing. For 20+ years, she has dreamed up ways to promote everything from widgets to wildfire awareness. Susan helped develop the San Gabriel Mountains Bighorn Sheep Restoration Strategy, and as a board member…
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Lisa Pool, Grassroots Leadership Director
Lisa Pool comes to Great Old Broads with a decade of experience in grassroots organizing, advocacy, and directing campaigns. Most recently, she worked with Conservation Colorado, where she developed strategies to grow community voices and involvement in conservation issues, including close collaboration with several Colorado Broadbands. Prior to that,…
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Katya Spiecker, Grassroots Regional Coordinator
Katya grew up exploring the old-growth juniper and towering ponderosa woodlands of central Oregon, where the sweeping sage of the Great Basin meets the majestic Cascade Mountains. Inspired by nature’s wonders, she eventually acquired a Bachelor’s in Environmental Science from Oregon Institute of Technology and has worked and volunteered…
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Sally Sharp, Grassroots Regional Coordinator
Sally brings 20+ years of experience as an elementary school teacher to Great Old Broads, and while grassroots organizing is new for her, she is not new to advocacy. She recently coordinated the energy justice campaign Bring Power Home 2020 in Pueblo, Colorado, managed an issue-based campaign with the…
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Jason Vaughn, Communications Coordinator
Jason brings over 20 years of experience in journalism and communications to Great Old Broads. He has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri, and worked as a reporter, editor, and content producer for small-town newspapers all the way up to the largest cable networks before…
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Kaye Berman, Development Director
Kaye comes to Great Old Broads with eight years of fundraising experience after a long career in the hospitality industry. She has most recently worked with Animals Asia Foundation, where she established a broad and diversified national fund development program, with an emphasis on building Major Gifts. Prior to…
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Alyssa Rainbolt, Membership & Events Manager
Alyssa comes to Great Old Broads with a passion for wild places and a background in non-profit project management and outdoor education. Most recently she was walking and rock climbing throughout the west for NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School), teaching environmental ethics, leadership, inclusion, and outdoor skills to a…
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Jolin Cordalis, Administration Assistant
Jolin Cordalis joins the Broads freshly out of college, as a very nontraditional student (aka OLD). Before getting her BS in geology and biology she spent a decade as the wine nerd for a local liquor store and has worked in all aspects of the restaurant industry. Jolin moved…
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Thank You to All of Our Broadband Leaders and Co-Leaders
- Andrea Bordelon
- Anne Dal Vera
- Anne Gerleman
- Anne McLaughlin
- Barb Fox Kilgore
- Barbara Dickinson
- Barbara Jacobsen
- Barbara McConvill
- Barbara Phalen
- Barbara Vasquez
- Billie Hughes
- Brenda Armstrong
- Carole McWilliams
- Carolyn Rader
- Chris Gorzalski
- Chris Shaver
- Cristina Harmon
- Cyndi Anderson
- Deb Grove
- Devaki Murch
- Di Allison
- Diane Miller
- Diane Mueller
- Dianne Maughan
- Elizabeth Arendt Delgado
- Emily Matyas
- Fran Krackow
- Fran Silva-Blayney
- Ginny Peckinpaugh
- Hilary Shughart
- Jan Bourdon
- Jane Stewart
- Janifer Larson
- Janna Rankin
- Jennifer Watson
- Jenny Cobb
- Joanie Connors
- Joanne Richter
- Karen Ryman
- Kathy O’Reilly-Doyle
- Kelly Burnett
- Krestine Reed
- Lara Lonon
- Laura Glismann
- Laurie Kerr
- Leanne Parker
- Linda Buckley
- Linda Graham
- Linda Healow
- Linda Starr
- Lisa McClure
- Liz McCane
- Loren Karro
- Louise Morgan
- Louise van Vonno
- Marcia Stout
- Margaret Meyncke
- Martha Bibb
- Mary Fleischmann
- Meg Braley
- Melanie Zwick
- Misi Ballard
- Mo Monroe
- Nancy Frost
- Nancy Ostlie
- Nancy Schultz
- Nancy Working
- Patience Paisley
- Patricia Welch
- Robyn Cascade
- Roz Switzer
- Sallie Thoreson
- Sarah Bransom
- Sherry Schenk
- Susan Libby
- Susan Ostlie
- Susie Schmidt
- Terry Karro
- Theo Pratt
Staff Pick Books
-
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
Dina Gilio-Whitaker, 2020
-
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
-
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake, 2020
-
Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots?
Carmela LaVigna Coyle
-
Why I Wake Early
Mary Oliver
-
Bob Marshall in the Adirondacks
Phil Brown, 2006
-
When Women Were Birds
Terry Tempest Williams, 2012
-
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Richard Preston, 2007
-
Prodigal Summer
Barbara Kingsolver, 2000
-
American Women Conservationists: Twelve Profiles
Madelyn Holmes, 2004
-
Hoot
(young readers)
Carl Hiassen, 2002
Shelley Silbert, Executive Director
Shelley joined Broads in 2012, bringing 20 years of experience in the fields of conservation and sustainability. She served as Associate Director for San Juan Citizens Alliance from 2011–2012, Director of Strategic Initiatives at Northern Arizona University from 2003–2011 where she advanced environmental…
Read moreLauren Berutich, Associate Director
Lauren has nearly 20 years of experience teaching environmental education, grassroots organizing, conservation and stewardship coordination, advocacy, and public work for sustainable community development. She served as Broads’ Grassroots Leadership Director for nearly four years, overseeing the training, guidance, and support of volunteer…
Read moreSusan Kearns, Communications Director
Susan has a diverse background in communications, graphic design, and marketing. For 20+ years, she has dreamed up ways to promote everything from widgets to wildfire awareness. Susan helped develop the San Gabriel Mountains Bighorn Sheep Restoration Strategy, and as a board member…
Read moreLisa Pool, Grassroots Leadership Director
Lisa Pool comes to Great Old Broads with a decade of experience in grassroots organizing, advocacy, and directing campaigns. Most recently, she worked with Conservation Colorado, where she developed strategies to grow community voices and involvement in conservation issues, including close collaboration with several Colorado Broadbands. Prior to that,…
Read moreKatya Spiecker, Grassroots Regional Coordinator
Katya grew up exploring the old-growth juniper and towering ponderosa woodlands of central Oregon, where the sweeping sage of the Great Basin meets the majestic Cascade Mountains. Inspired by nature’s wonders, she eventually acquired a Bachelor’s in Environmental Science from Oregon Institute of Technology and has worked and volunteered…
Read moreSally Sharp, Grassroots Regional Coordinator
Sally brings 20+ years of experience as an elementary school teacher to Great Old Broads, and while grassroots organizing is new for her, she is not new to advocacy. She recently coordinated the energy justice campaign Bring Power Home 2020 in Pueblo, Colorado, managed an issue-based campaign with the…
Read moreJason Vaughn, Communications Coordinator
Jason brings over 20 years of experience in journalism and communications to Great Old Broads. He has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri, and worked as a reporter, editor, and content producer for small-town newspapers all the way up to the largest cable networks before…
Read moreKaye Berman, Development Director
Kaye comes to Great Old Broads with eight years of fundraising experience after a long career in the hospitality industry. She has most recently worked with Animals Asia Foundation, where she established a broad and diversified national fund development program, with an emphasis on building Major Gifts. Prior to…
Read moreAlyssa Rainbolt, Membership & Events Manager
Alyssa comes to Great Old Broads with a passion for wild places and a background in non-profit project management and outdoor education. Most recently she was walking and rock climbing throughout the west for NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School), teaching environmental ethics, leadership, inclusion, and outdoor skills to a…
Read moreJolin Cordalis, Administration Assistant
Jolin Cordalis joins the Broads freshly out of college, as a very nontraditional student (aka OLD). Before getting her BS in geology and biology she spent a decade as the wine nerd for a local liquor store and has worked in all aspects of the restaurant industry. Jolin moved…
Read moreJoin a Broadband Become a Broadband Leader Broadband Events
Thank You to All of Our Broadband Leaders and Co-Leaders
- Andrea Bordelon
- Anne Dal Vera
- Anne Gerleman
- Anne McLaughlin
- Barb Fox Kilgore
- Barbara Dickinson
- Barbara Jacobsen
- Barbara McConvill
- Barbara Phalen
- Barbara Vasquez
- Billie Hughes
- Brenda Armstrong
- Carole McWilliams
- Carolyn Rader
- Chris Gorzalski
- Chris Shaver
- Cristina Harmon
- Cyndi Anderson
- Deb Grove
- Devaki Murch
- Di Allison
- Diane Miller
- Diane Mueller
- Dianne Maughan
- Elizabeth Arendt Delgado
- Emily Matyas
- Fran Krackow
- Fran Silva-Blayney
- Ginny Peckinpaugh
- Hilary Shughart
- Jan Bourdon
- Jane Stewart
- Janifer Larson
- Janna Rankin
- Jennifer Watson
- Jenny Cobb
- Joanie Connors
- Joanne Richter
- Karen Ryman
- Kathy O’Reilly-Doyle
- Kelly Burnett
- Krestine Reed
- Lara Lonon
- Laura Glismann
- Laurie Kerr
- Leanne Parker
- Linda Buckley
- Linda Graham
- Linda Healow
- Linda Starr
- Lisa McClure
- Liz McCane
- Loren Karro
- Louise Morgan
- Louise van Vonno
- Marcia Stout
- Margaret Meyncke
- Martha Bibb
- Mary Fleischmann
- Meg Braley
- Melanie Zwick
- Misi Ballard
- Mo Monroe
- Nancy Frost
- Nancy Ostlie
- Nancy Schultz
- Nancy Working
- Patience Paisley
- Patricia Welch
- Robyn Cascade
- Roz Switzer
- Sallie Thoreson
- Sarah Bransom
- Sherry Schenk
- Susan Libby
- Susan Ostlie
- Susie Schmidt
- Terry Karro
- Theo Pratt
-
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
Dina Gilio-Whitaker, 2020
-
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
-
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake, 2020
-
Do Princesses Wear Hiking Boots?
Carmela LaVigna Coyle
-
Why I Wake Early
Mary Oliver
-
Bob Marshall in the Adirondacks
Phil Brown, 2006
-
When Women Were Birds
Terry Tempest Williams, 2012
-
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Richard Preston, 2007
-
Prodigal Summer
Barbara Kingsolver, 2000
-
American Women Conservationists: Twelve Profiles
Madelyn Holmes, 2004
-
Hoot
(young readers)
Carl Hiassen, 2002