Senior Leadership
Melanie Cirillo
Vice President
“May you always have a shell in your pocket and sand in your shoes!”
Favorite Activity
Paddling
Yvette DeBow-Salsedo
Vice President(she/her)
“The Earth is what we all have in common.” — Wendell Berry
Favorite Activity
Visit a Farmstand/Tasting Room
Conservation Programs
Timothy J. Caufield
Senior Advisor
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” - H.D. ThoreauÂ
Favorite Activity
Hiking
Holly Sanford
Senior Project Manager
“This land is your land, this land is my land…” - Woody Guthrie
Favorite Activity
Gardening
Leandra R. Bakker
Project Assistant
“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.” – Dalai Lama
Favorite Activity
Visit a Farmstand/Tasting Room
Stewardship
Matt Swain
Director of Stewardship & Geographic Information Systems
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” - Warren Buffett
Favorite Activity
Biking
Dan Heston
Director of Agricultural Programs
“Nature is both God’s ultimate challenge and balm for mind, body, and spirit.”
Favorite Activity
Fishing
Layton Guenther
Director, Quail Hill Farm(they/them)
“Matter doesn’t disappear, it transforms. Energy is the same way. The Earth is layer upon layer of all that has existed, remembered by the dirt.” - Adrienne Maree Brown
Favorite Activity
Hiking
Rick Bogusch
Garden Director, Bridge Gardens
“We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good. We’ll do the best we know. We’ll build our house and chop our wood. And make our garden grow. And make our garden grow!” - From the musical Candide
Favorite Activity
Gardening
Jessie McSwane
Senior Stewardship Manager
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” - Pablo PicassoÂ
Favorite Activity
Hiking
Josh Halsey
Environmental Programs Manager
“O medo de quem navega nĂŁo Ă© o mar, mas a terra.” - Amyr Klink
Favorite Activity
Gardening
Brendan Minogue
Stewardship Manager
“Conservation is a state of harmony between man and land.”Â
Favorite Activity
Hiking
Jackie Wilson
Stewardship Program Coordinator
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Favorite Activity
Fishing
Lawrence Zietz
Propagation and Flower Coordinator
“You can see everything in the universe in one tangerine. When you peel it and smell it, it’s wonderful. You can take your time eating a tangerine and be very happy.“ — Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace is Every Step
Favorite Activity
Biking
Thomas Corcoran
GIS Technician & Stewardship Coordinator
“He who binds to himself a joy, Does the winged life destroy. He who kisses the joy as it flies, Lives in eternity’s sunrise”
—William Blake
Favorite Activity
Hiking
Marketing, Outreach & Education
Kathleen Kennedy
Senior Manager of Outreach
“Be we merry while we may and mindful of joy, for heaviness of the heart can be had at the asking.” - Taken from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Favorite Activity
Biking
Bridget Micieli-Martinez
Events and Design Manager
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” - Dr. Suess, The Lorax
Favorite Activity
Photography
Development
Amanda Abraham
Director of Development(she/her)
“Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.” - L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green GablesÂ
Favorite Activity
Hiking
Alison Delaney
Development Officer(she/her)
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” – Rachel Carson
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Favorite Activity
Gardening
Stephanie Konarski
Manager of Donor Information and Grant Relations(she/her)
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.” — Jane Goodall
Favorite Activity
Biking
Olivia Waterhouse
Development Assistant(she/her)
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.” — John Muir
Favorite Activity
Hiking
Finance & Operations
Lori Mikula
Director of Finance
“Two roads diverged into the woods, and I - I took the ones less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” - R. Frost
Favorite Activity
Hiking
Robin L. Harris
Senior Office Manager
“Being in nature’s presence transcends all of life’s cares.” - UnknownÂ