As a trustee of the Lintilhac Foundation, a family foundation based in Shelburne, Will is able to support research, education, and conservation of Vermont's natural resources, renewable energy economy, and changing communities. After graduating from UVM in 2010 with a degree in Natural Resources, he has worked on diversified organic farms in Vermont and Massachusetts. Will and his wife, Rosy, can be found in our green hills, mountain biking from spring to fall, and skiing from fall to spring. The best days are when he can do both.

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Maisie Anrod (she/her/they/them) is a pre-service teacher passionate about place-based, social justice education in Vermont, with a particular focus on how we relate with the land and each other. She is currently working towards her Master of Arts in Teaching at the University of Vermont and lives nearby in Burlington. Prior to starting her Masters, Maisie served three schools in the Northeast Kingdom (Jay/Westfield Joint Elementary, Troy School, and Lowell Graded School) as an AmeriCorps Farm-to-School Coordinator with Green Mountain Farm-to-School in Newport. During her time there, she also became a Master Gardener Intern through UVM Extension. Before that, she was a Postgraduate Education Fellow at Shelburne Farms, where she had the opportunity to learn about and practice Education for Sustainability from expert educators. Maisie's time in Vermont began with her studies at Middlebury College, where she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in biology and a minor in studio art.

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Over the past 25 years, Kathy Beyer has been directly involved in housing development including new construction, historic rehabilitation, downtown and village centers, and preservation of at-risk housing. She currently directs the real estate development activities at Evernorth, a nonprofit community development corporation working to serve communities in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Prior to working at Evernorth, Kathy was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Housing & Community Development for Vermont in 1998. Kathy holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Economics from the University of Minnesota. Kathy has a passion for civic duty and has served in the Vermont legislature, on the local school board, and several nonprofit boards. She loves living in a rural place where farming is part of the community fabric.

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Megan Camp (she/her) has served for over three decades as the Executive Vice President and Program Director of Shelburne Farms, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future. Shelburne Farms' home campus is based on the traditional homelands of the Winooskik band of the Abenaki and is a 1,400-acre working farm, forest, and National Historic Landmark. Among other affiliations, Megan is a member of the IUCN (The World Conservation Union) Commission on Education and Communication, Vermont Farm to Plate Steering Committee, and serves on the advisory boards of the University of Vermont's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Continuing and Distance Education. Megan also currently serves on the board of The Vermont Council of Rural Development and Vermont Working Lands Enterprise Board. Megan lives in Shelburne with her husband and cat and loves to spend time in her garden, cook meals for friends and family, and enjoy the beautiful trails in her community.

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From 2000 to 2021, Paul Costello (he/him) served as Executive Director of the Vermont Council on Rural Development (VCRD), a nonprofit that helps rural communities with programs to advance the digital economy, the working landscape, climate economy, and community leadership development. Paul has served on boards ranging from corrections education to cooperatives, libraries and Governor’s commissions, including co-chairing the Climate Action Team and chairing the Local Support and Community Action Team of the Vermont Covid-19 Recovery Task Force. He is also past president of the national community development association, Partners for Rural America. A lifelong Vermonter, Paul grew up in Burlington and attended UVM before earning a PhD in intellectual history at McGill. He currently resides in Montpelier with his wife, Maria.

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Jameson Christopher Davis (he/him/his) is a former Selectboard Member for the Town of Hartford, Vermont with a passion for combating environmental harm through innovative solutions. Jameson received his Juris Doctorate (JD) and Master of Environmental Law and Policy (MELP) from Vermont Law School. While at Vermont Law School, he also helped found the Environmental Justice Law Society (EJLS) and completed a full academic year as an Advanced Clinician in the Environmental Justice Clinic directed by Marianne Engelman-Lado. The Environmental Justice Clinic fights against environmental harm in minority communities through enforcement of civil rights laws nationally. Additionally, Jameson authored a paper on the History of How Low-Income and Predominantly Black Unincorporated Communities Evolved to Become EJ Communities Through State Annexation Laws/Procedures in Fall 2019 Outside of his roles and responsibilities as a student and Selectboard Member, Davis served as a Volunteer Member for the Vermont Attorney General's Advisory Panel on Racial Disparities in the Juvenile and Criminal Justice System. While serving on the advisory panel Davis was appointed Chairman of the Data Collection Practices for Vermont Law Enforcement Subcommittee. Davis previously interned with the Office of the Vermont Attorney General, in addition to the Chesapeake Legal Alliance (CLA), which protects local community members, groups and advocates by assisting staff attorneys in their fight to enforce compliance and existing laws designed to protect the most vulnerable communities and habitats found in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Davis currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for JAG Productions, the Friends of The Morrill Homestead and now the Vermont Natural Resource Council (VNRC). Lastly, Davis continues to provide municipal consulting while co-authoring anti-racism policies and procedures used by municipalities, school districts and organizations at the local, regional, and national level.

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Elizabeth Gibson (she/her) is a Director of the Dreamshadow Group, an educational nonprofit based in Vermont that focuses on personal development, community building, and the creative potential of exceptional experience. She has worked as an environmental consultant, teacher, and editor. Elizabeth and her husband Lenny raised their family in Pawlet, Vermont, where she has been involved in various community projects, including the Pawlet Energy Group, Emergency Management Team, and the Pawlet website and newsletter. She is especially interested in helping people build stronger connections to the natural world.

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Reed Kehler (he/him) grew up at Jasper Hill Farm, a cow dairy and creamery in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. Reed spends his summers making cheese, milking cows and goats, and making hay. In his free time, he will likely be somewhere without cell service backcountry skiing or rock/ice climbing. He feels he has a strong pastoral connection to the state's working land and enjoys the raw wilderness his hobbies lead him to explore. Reed will be studying animal science and community economic development. He’s attending UVM’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences where he will be studying animal science and community economic development.

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Helen Mango (she/her) is a professor of natural sciences at Castleton University, where she has been teaching geology and chemistry since 1991. She recently retired from full-time teaching, but continues to teach part-time and stay involved in the Castleton community. Her academic research in geochemistry has involved projects in Iceland, Mexico and Vermont, with a focus on ore deposits, heavy metals (such as arsenic) in drinking water, and the suitability of soils for reforestation. The Board of Trustees of the Vermont State Colleges System (VSCS) honored Helen as a VSCS Faculty Fellow for the 2021-2022 academic year. She is a graduate of Williams College and received her Masters and PhD degrees from Dartmouth College. Helen resides in Tinmouth and can be found gardening and singing in her spare time.

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Fresh out of college, Nina Otter served as VNRC's Legislative Intern during the 2010 session and became the organization's Membership and Outreach Coordinator for several years. Since then, Nina has coached collegiate cycling, worked in mental health recovery and currently serves older adults in central Vermont as a home health occupational therapist. She received her BA in Environmental Education from Warren Wilson College and her MS of Occupational Therapy from Winston-Salem State University. Having grown up in Montpelier, Nina holds a deep appreciation for the sense of purpose and belonging that a vibrant downtown and social community surrounded by working and recreational landscape fosters. Nina enjoys biking, walking and skiing trails and making a home on the 60 acres in Moretown where she lives with her husband, Matt, and their son.

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Bindu Panikkar is an Assistant Professor at the Environmental Program, Rubenstein School for Environment and Natural Resources at University of Vermont. She works at the intersections of Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, and Science, Technology & Society Studies. She has been working on environmental justice issues since 2005 starting with her doctoral research exploring the occupational health disparities among immigrant populations in Somerville, MA. Bindu is committed to doing community-based research and her previous work coordinated multiple translational research activities for the Children’s Environmental Health Center (Brown), Superfund Research Program (Brown), Contested Illness Research Group (Brown), Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute (Northeastern), Arctic Institute of North America (U Calgary), Tufts Community Research Center. She runs the Just Futures lab at UVM and her work examines environmental justice issues, and environmental controversies surrounding newly proposed mines, emerging contaminants, post carbon futures, exposures at work and in vulnerable communities exploring the links between environment, health, policy, legal and ethical implications. Bindu is on the board of Community Action Works, is one of the founding members of an international Transboundary Water in Network (TWIN) with organizations working across 7 countries on transboundary water conflicts. She is also a fellow at the Gund Institute of the Environment, and the Associate Director of Institute of Environmental Diplomacy and Security. Bindu lives in Burlington, Vermont.

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Diane Snelling joins the VNRC Board after a long history of public service in protection of the environment. Most recently, Diane served as Chair of the Natural Resources Board, the entity which administers Vermont’s land use and development law, Act 250. Originally appointed by Governor Peter Shumlin in 2016, she was reappointed to the post by Governor Phil Scott in 2017, 2019 and 2021. Prior to that, Diane represented Chittenden County in the Vermont State Senate from 2002 to 2016, where she was a champion for clean water and wetlands protection in her work with the Senate Natural Resources Committee. Diane moved to Hinesburg in 1983, and has been active as a member of both the Hinesburg Planning Commission and the Hinesburg Select Board while making her living as an artist. Over the years, she has served on the board of many charitable and civic organizations, including the Richard A. Snelling Center for Government and Robert Hull Fleming Museum Advisory Board (now the Fleming Museum of Art). Diane obtained a Master of Arts from New York University and also holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard/Radcliffe College.

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Will Stevens (he/him) has navigated the nexus between Vermont’s natural and managed environments as a commercial organic vegetable grower for more than 40 years. Golden Russet Farm, which he and his wife Judy founded in the early 1980’s, was named “Sustainable Farm of the Year” in 2004. Will has served his local, regional, and statewide communities in many ways over the years, including as chair of Planning Commission, Selectperson, and Moderator for the Town of Shoreham, as a board member for a number of non-profit organizations, as a four-term member of the Vermont House of Representatives (representing Addison-Rutland-1), as a visiting teacher at Middlebury College, and most recently as an outreach representative for Senator Bernie Sanders (covering agriculture, economic development, hunger/nutrition and other issues). Will and Judy live in Shoreham and have three adult children. They are currently transitioning the farm over to their oldest daughter, who is continuing to contribute to the ecological and economic vitality of Vermont’s working landscape.

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