Staff & Leadership
Leadership Team
Peter Smerud
Executive Director | Email
Kirk Geadelmann
Finance Director | Email
Jessica Vance
Marketing Director
Nathan Engstrom
Operations Director
Rebecca Meyer
Program Director
Misha Evertz
Development Director
Program Naturalists
Rachel Giemza
Summer & Special Programs Director
Emily Pavlisich
Program Coordinator
Shelby Roback
Director of Naturalist Training | Email
David Stieler
Curriculum Coordinator
Joe Walewski
Teaching & Learning Coordinator | Email
Charlie Pavlisich
STEM Coordinator | Email
Lori Walewski
Informal Education
Courtney Wright
Animal Care & Wildlife Program Coordinator
Brie Wintz
Program Assistant Naturalist | Email
Jonny Tostenson
Program Assistant Naturalist | Email
Leah Kessler
Program Assistant Naturalist | Email
Graduate Naturalists
Graduate Naturalists
Cait Flannery
Eric Parazak
Gabbi VandenBrink
Izabella Goland
Jannes Packet
Kayla Edmunds
Kelsy O’Morrow
Logan Stecker
Lauren Chamberlain
Madie Cloutier
Maleah Upton
Marcus Popovich
Mo Armstrong
Neko Nelson
Teagan Weiss
Each year through an intense 10-month graduate program, a cohort of naturalists live, train, and teach at Wolf Ridge while earning graduate credits. We’ve trained over 1,000 naturalists during our 50-year history as an organization.
Operations
Maintenance
Bob Geatz
Maintenance Manager | Email
Carter Acker
Maintenance Technician | Email
Bob Wolke
Maintenance Technician | Email
Doug Dusenberry
Maintenance Technician | Email
Board of Trustees
Schele Smith (Chair)
Nancy Quattelbaum Burke (Vice Chair)
Doug Connell (Secretary)
Gaylen Harms (Treasurer)
Mark Carey
Sarah Edstrom
Monica Hamling
Susan Heegaard
Eric Klein
Lori Meehan
Jennifer Neimi
Raj Pillai
John Priem
Tari Rayala
Anne Schneider
Lee Thao
John Thein
Sandy Timmerman
Bill Vanderwall
Roberto Zayas
Emeritus Members
Tom Berg
Russ Bierbaum
James E. Brandenberg
William M. Burns
Ron Kirk
Nancy Schultz
Rene Settergren
Deceased
Thomas Atchison
Richard (Dick) Gray, Sr
Peter Heegaard
Robert Heller
Donn Larson
Myron Latimer
Sigurd Olson
Michael Plautz
Werner Tismer
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