Staff & Leadership
Leadership Team
Vanessa Mendillo Riegler
Executive Director | Email
Nathan Engstrom
Operations Director | Email
Misha Evertz
Development Director | Email
Program Naturalists
Emmerson Kuhl
Camp Programs and Onsite Campus Coordinator | Email
Emily Pavlisich
Naturalist Training Manager | Email
Charlie Pavlisich
STEM Coordinator | Email
David Stieler
Curriculum Coordinator | Email
Maleah Upton
Program Coordinator | Email
Lori Walewski
Informal Education | Email
Joe Walewski
Teaching & Learning Coordinator | Email
Graduate Naturalists
Mentor Naturalists
Meg Jacobs
Nick James
Bridget Lee
Anni Yoney
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Graduate Naturalists
Patrick Baughman
Catie Casad
Courtney Brink
Chloe Benson
Olive Colangelo
Janie Cuvin
Josh Fix
Paige Lieblich
Everest Micci
Autymn Norman
Sophia Preciado
Josie Rehbein
Jesse Simmons
Ana Stewart
Lauren Trexler
Ada Turman
Brooklyn Williamson
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
Adam Hoechst
Maintenance Technician | Email
James Tompt
Maintenance Technician | Email
Board of Trustees
Schele Smith (Chair)
Nancy Quattlebaum 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
Craig Schmidt
Anne Schneider
Sandy Timmerman
Bill Vanderwall
Roberto Zayas
Emeritus Members
Tom Berg
Russ Bierbaum
William M. Burns
Ron Kirk
Nancy Schultz
Rene Settergren
Deceased
Thomas Atchison
James E. Brandenburg
Richard (Dick) Gray, Sr
Peter Heegaard
Robert Heller
Donn Larson
Myron Latimer
Sigurd Olson
Michael Plautz
Werner Tismer
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