Staff

At Wildlands Network: Sandi Boone has been the Chief Financial Officer for Wildlands Network since May 2005. In addition to her financial responsibilities, which includes oversight of all accounting functions, she handles human resource issues, wrangles the donor database, helps maintain the website, and organizes our Fall Fundraising Campaign.

At Wildlands Network: Lise Meinke is our Social Media Manager. She is the content manager for the Facebook page, Twitter accounts and YouTube channel and assists with the website. She works with the Communication team in future social media planning for the organization.

At Wildlands Network: Kenyon Fields is Strategy Director for Wildlands Network, focusing his efforts on a long-term comprehensive strategy for the Western Wildlway Network Initiative. The Initiative is an international effort to employ the power of networks of people to protect a network of conservation lands from northern Alaska’s Brooks Range down through the Canadian and American Rockies into northern Mexico.

At Wildlands Network: Ron is a conservation scientist leading our efforts to create a Wildlands Network Design for the Southeast Atlantic Coastal Plain, an extremely bio-diverse region stretching from southern Virginia to southern Florida. Joining the Wildlands Network in the summer of 2010, he is also helping to design and implement wildlife corridors connecting the coastal plain to the extensive mountain forests in the Southern Appalachians.

At Wildlands Network: Kelly Diedring Harris is our publicity consultant.  Currently focusing on the Eastern U.S. and Canadian media outlets, Kelly is promoting our TrekEast campaign so that people across North America can support our cause and make a difference.  She writes press releases, provides media alerts, pitches local and national media outlets, develops and maintains media relationships, and books media interviews for Wildlands Network staff.  Kelly also consults on TrekEast’s social networking strategies.