for the Nevada Wilderness Project:
Rene Valladares - Las Vegas, NV
Rene grew up in Nicaragua--a beautiful country of lakes, volcanoes and mind-boggling bio-diversity. Unfortunately, Nicaragua's beautiful resources have been thoughtlessly sold to the highest bidders. This sad fact made Rene keenly aware of the moral imperative we all share to preserve wilderness. Rene lives in Las Vegas where he is an Assistant Federal Public Defender fighting so that the indigent get a fair shake at the criminal justice system. One of his favorite places on earth is Red Rock National Conservation Area, where he has spent many hours hiking.
Lynn Schiek (Treasurer and Secretary) Incline Village, NV
Lynn is currently working as an Information Systems Consultant and private investor in the Lake Tahoe region. She spent a decade managing and integrating hardware and software development projects for data communications companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since moving to Lake Tahoe in 2004, Lynn and her husband John, enjoy hiking, backpacking, cross country skiing and spending as much time as possible on Nevada's wild and public lands.
Jill S. Heaton - Reno, NV
Professor Heaton teaches in the Department of Geography at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is an arid lands ecologist with expertise in the areas of herpetology, GIS, habitat modeling and spatial statistics. Her research typically centers on issues related to land use and conservation, specifically as they affect reptiles. Jill loves the outdoors, especially the arid landscape, and enjoys hiking, backpacking, snowshoeing, dog sledding, fishing, kayaking and diving. She is also active in the martial art of Jujitsu.
Jerri Conrad - Reno, NV
Jerri is director of client services at Olsen & Associates Public Relations & Creative Collaborations. She respects the recreational, scenic and environmental value of Wilderness lands. Jerri is a 16-year resident of northern Nevada and an avid road-tripper in the western United States. Some of her favorite trips include Highway 93 in Montana, Highway 12 in Idaho and anything near the John Day River in Oregon. Jerri has had some of her best road trip experiences in Nevada: Highway 95 along Walker Lake, Highway 140 to Denio and Highway 50 from Fallon to Baker. Her husband, children and two Springer Spaniels accompany her on most of these trips.
Debra Bookout (President) - Las Vegas, NV
Debra is originally from Houston, Texas. After graduating from law school, she moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where she worked for more than a decade as an Assistant Public Defender with the Broward County Public Defender's Office (yes, that Broward County). Debra moved to Las Vegas in 2004 when, with some trepidation about living in the desert, she accepted a position with the Federal Public Defender's Office. Her fear of living in the hot, dry, achingly brown Mojave desert, after years in lush bayou country and later the tropics of southern Florida, was short-lived. She quickly fell in love with the incredibly beautiful state of Nevada and is now committed to the preservation of its public lands. When not traveling somewhere (anywhere), she spends her time gardening, weaving and hanging out with her three kids, Melrose, Moon and Kiwi.
Colin Ware - Las Vegas, NV
Colin is Vice President of Marketing and Sales at IDC, where he is responsible for all external relations for the 35 year-old firm. He joined IDC in 2006 after working three years as a Senior Consultant for The Collins Group, the largest major gift consulting firm in the Pacific Northwest. His clients included Trust for Public Land (national), World Vision, Morris Animal Foundation, Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University, Legacy Health Systems and High Desert Museum. Prior to that, he served as Director of Development at the Culinary Institute of America’s Greystone campus, Director of Marketing at the Denver Center Theatre Company, and Audience Development Manager at the San Francisco Symphony. In his career, which spans over 20 years of work in the non-profit sector, Colin has been instrumental in raising over $30 million dollars for non-profits of all types. Colin holds an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and an Honors Bachelors Degree in history from the University of Toronto.
Nancy E. Brune - Las Vegas, NV
Dr. Brune is a senior analyst at Sandia National Laboratories working on issues of energy security, national security and non-proliferation issues. Previously, she was Director of Research and Policy at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) at UNLV. During 2002-2005, she worked with the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) where she conducted survey-based research and designed and managed projects aimed at reforming health care systems. Nancy received a BA and MA from Harvard, and a PhD from Yale University. Before graduate school, she lived in rural Nicaragua for two years, where she managed women’s micro-enterprise projects and community health programs. She lives in Las Vegas and has volunteered for a number of other Clark County organizations, including the Clark County Citizen Review Board and the Committee on Community Priorities. She is a Court Appointed Special Advocate. She is also a trained mediator and negotiator and volunteers as a (bi-lingual) mediator with the Neighborhood Justice Center in Las Vegas.
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