Michael has 30+ years of experience working for global professional services firms. Michael was the Managing Director of Client Management Services at Wellington Management Company, LLP, a Boston based asset management firm. Prior to that, he was a member of the international operations group for Deloitte Touché Tohmatsu International in New York and the Director...
Board Members
Pam is a writer and a local farm and food activist. She is the author of Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas: Profiles of Organic Farmers and Ranchers across the State (Texas A & M University Press, 2009) and of articles that have appeared in edible Austin, edible Houston, edible New Mexico and the...
Mary Dixon has lived in Santa Fe most of her life. She graduated from Santa Fe High School in ’71 and UNM in ‘75, taught elementary school and pre-school for many years, managed the paperwork for her husband Tom’s small construction company and then started farming full time in 2006, when Green Tractor Farm became...
Kyle Burns (Treasurer) is a native of Santa Fe and moved back to the city in 2014 after spending four years living and working in San Francisco. Currently Kyle is a registered investment counsel with the Rikoon Group, providing long-term investment strategies for families, individuals, business owners, and charitable organizations. Prior to joining the Rikoon Group,...
Christine Castro has more than 25 years of experience leading communications and public relations functions for global brands in the entertainment, technology and biotech sectors. She has served as Vice President, Communications for The Walt Disney Company; Chief Communications Officer for Yahoo Inc.; Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs for Genentech; and Senior Vice President, Communications,...
Nathaniel Earls was born and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. He moved to Santa Fe to attend St. John’s College, a rigorous liberal arts college “focused on the most important books and ideas of Western civilization, taught in seminar-style classes.” He graduated in 2008, and is currently pursuing graduate studies in data science, machine...
Brenda Fresquez was born and raised in Española, New Mexico. After graduating from New Mexico State University she worked in Denver, Colorado and Kansas City, Missouri before returning to New Mexico to work at the University of New Mexico and then Los Alamos National Laboratory. She currently works for the Legislative Finance Committee. Brenda has extensive...
Diane Sandoval-Griego is the Chief of Financial Empowerment at Guadalupe Credit Union, where she has worked for 15 years. She is very passionate about identifying needs in the communities of her state of New Mexico, which is ranked second highest for poverty in the US. She founded and leads a financial coaching team that reaches seven counties...
Robert W. Jones is a native of Texas, but has spent more and more time in Santa Fe over the last 10 years and now calls The Land of Enchantment home for a big portion of the year. Robert has spent his professional career mostly in the area of corporate public affairs while working in...
Lisa Kantor grew up in Tucson, Arizona. After receiving a BA in Spanish from Arizona State University, she pursued a graduate degree at the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City, and ultimately received her MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA. She worked in commercial real estate throughout the Southwest: specializing in the acquisition or construction of...
Kaitlyn is a financial services professional in Santa Fe and an advocate for local agriculture. Her experience as a ranch hand and wrangler on cattle operations in Colorado forged her views on sustainable land and livestock management. She holds a BA with honors in English Literature from Temple University and taught English as a Second...
107Gail Wadsworth was born and raised in Colorado. She is the former Executive Director of the California Institute for Rural Studies (CIRS). Retired after 10 years, she moved back to the Rocky Mountain West settling in Santa Fe, New Mexico. During Gail’s tenure at CIRS, she designed and directed work on many research projects related...
Val Wilson has worked in veterinary medicine for 15+ years. She currently is the Director of Veterinary Operations at Animal Humane New Mexico. She and her husband Grant, also own and operate Lotus Farms, their own pastured poultry and forested pork farm. She values humane treatment of animals and sustainable methods that support land use....
Andrea Fisher Maril grew up in rural Iowa and has gardened in Santa Fe, southwest Iowa, upstate New York, south Texas and Oklahoma. She previously spent two decades at the helm of Big Brothers Big Sisters Mountain Region and has academic degrees in cultural anthropology (BA from Grinnell College, MA from University of Iowa) and...