Richard Ingebretsen, MD, Ph.D.,-Founder and President
M.S. Biophysics, 1983; Ph.D. Physics, 1989; M.D., 1993; all from University of Utah. Physician, Faculty Member at University of Utah Medical School and Physics Department. Founder and President of Utah Wilderness Medicine. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Ed Dobson-Vice President
Attorney for Navajo Nation Legal Services. Past Water Master (Judge) (1989-98), Montana Water Court. Juris Doctor, University of Montana, 1987. Bluff, Utah.

Lea Rudee, Ph.D.-Secretary
Materials Science, Stanford University. Founding Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California - San Diego. Past President of Board of Trustees, San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts. Member of Board of Burnham Cancer Research Institute. San Diego, California.

Dave Wegner- Treasurer
Chief Scientist at Ecosystem Management International. B.S. Aquatic Ecology, University of Minnesota, 1975; M.A. Environmental Ecology and Engineering, Colorado State University, 1980. Lead Scientist for Bureau of Reclamation Environmental Impact Studies of Glen Canyon Dam. Durango, Colorado.

Wade Graham
US History, UCLA 1999; Ph.D. candidate UCLA US/World environmental history. Journalist who has written for the New Yorker, Harper's and other noted publications. He is writing an economic history of the Hawaiian Islands. Los Angeles, California.

Margi Hoffman
Margi Hoffmann was raised on a ranch in northwest Colorado. From a very early age, she witnessed the encroachment of development on wildlands in Colorado and across the West. During and after college, she has worked with advocacy groups and in government to implement changes to protect what is left of the West's wildlands, particularly the heart of the Colorado Plateau. She currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

Nancy Jacques
Nancy Jacques (Durango, CO) sleeps with bears and ravens, and in their behalf owns Raven's Eye Press. Author of The Heartcore Alternative, columnist, poet and artist, founding director of Friends of the Animas River and Colorado Rivers Alliance, teacher, mother, wife and lover of Earth Warriors.

Mikhail Davis
Director of the Brower Fund at Earth Island Institute. B.S. Earth Systems, Stanford University. Served as David Brower's personal assistant and project manager from April 1998 until Mr. Brower's Death in November 2000. San Francisco, California.

Rick Ridder
Rick Ridder is President and Co-Founder of Ridder/Braden. Ridder possesses extensive experience from both the campaign trail and the consultant’s chair. He was Campaign Chair of Howard Dean’s campaign for the U.S. presidency. He was a senior consultant for the Clinton/Gore campaign, the National Field Director for two other presidential campaigns, and a staff member on two additional presidential bids. As a consultant to numerous U.S. Senate, Congressional, Gubernatorial, and state and local initiative campaigns, he has guided campaign staffs with his knowledge and experience to ensure the success of daily campaign operations. He has worked internationally in Canada, Australia, Great Britain, Spain, Sweden and Venezuela as well as other countries. Ridder is a frequent speaker at training programs and conferences, both nationally and internationally, and has provided election commentary for all three major U.S. networks (NBC, ABC and CBS) and the BBC networks. He is also the immediate past-President of the International Association of Political Consultants. Prior to political consulting, Ridder was an independent radio and television producer whose programming aired on major networks. He holds an M.S. in Broadcasting with a concentration in broadcast law and management from Boston University, and a B.S. from Middlebury College.

Daniel Beard, Ph.D.
A native of Bellingham, Washington, Dan earned a B.A. degree from Western Washington University (1965), and both his M.A. (1969) and Ph.D. (1973) from the University of Washington. Former Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation from 1993 to 1995. Former Staff Director for the Committee on Natural Resources of the U.S. House of Representatives. He served as National Audubon Society's Senior Vice President of Public Policy after leaving Interior.

Steve Black
Steve received a B.A. with honors from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982. He earned his law degree in 1989 from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, where he served as the Executive Editor of Ecology Law Quarterly. Steve Black is the deputy attorney general for natural resources and the environment for the State of Colorado. A native Coloradoan, Steve has a broad-based environmental law and natural resources practice with extensive experience in public lands law, state and federal environmental statutes and regulations, natural resources management issues, and plaintiffs’ civil rights claims. Steve is a member of the American, California, Colorado and Denver Bar Associations and is admitted to practice in the state courts of California and Colorado, the U.S. District Court for Colorado, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Ryan Brown
Ryan is a native of central Utah. He is a senior copywriter position with McCann-Erickson in Salt Lake City. He has long been familiar with Glen Canyon and was taught to respect rivers early by his father, who told firsthand accounts of his river trip through Glen Canyon in 1963. He has served as a river guide on the Salmon River. However, today, he’s traded in his Salmon River guides license, daily kayaking trips and spare time for three beautiful daughters.

Agustin Garza
Agustín G. Garza was born and raised in Mexico City. He attended California College of Arts & Crafts, in San Francisco, and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, where he conducted studies in Fine Arts and Graphic Design. His work has been recognized internationally and forms part of the permanent collection of the National Library of Congress. A resident of Pasadena, he is President of Garza Group, a marketing communications firm serving clients in the Real Estate and Travel & Hospitality industries. His partial list of clients include The Los Angeles Convention & Visitor Bureau, Mexico City, The Mills Corporation, Catellus Corporation, Korn Ferry International, among others.

Pete Lavigne
President and CEO of the Rivers Foundation of the Americas, was the founding director of River Network's River Leadership Program in 1992. Peter has served as executive director of the Westport River Watershed Alliance and the Merrimack River Watershed Council, as Deputy Director of For the Sake of the Salmon, and as a lobbyist for the Vermont Natural Resources Council. Peter received a master's degree cum laude in Environmental Law and Policy, and a Juris Doctor degree at Vermont Law School and a B.A. in Government and Geology from Oberlin College. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor in the Hatfield School of Government and Senior Fellow of the Watershed Management Professional Program at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon

Katie Lee
Katie Lee was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1919 and grew up exploring the wild desert and swimming in the mountain ponds. When she was in her early thirties, Lee began taking boat trips down the Colorado River with her friends, Frank Wright and Tad Nichols. Lee revived her journals of those river trips in a 1999 book-elegy, All My Rivers Are Gone.
Lee not only wrote her own songs about the river, but she also discovered those written by others, collecting them on two albums: "Colorado River Songs" and "Glen Canyon River Journeys."

Dan McCool, Ph.D.
Daniel McCool is a professor at the University of Utah. His research and teaching focus on environmental policy, water resources management, American Indian policy, and policy theory. He is the author of Native Waters (University of Arizona Press, 2002) and Command of the Waters (University of California, 1987, re-issued University of Arizona, 1994), co-author of Staking Out the Terrain, second edition (SUNY Press, 1995), author/editor of Public Policy Theories, Models and Concepts (Prentice Hall, 1995), editor of Waters of Zion (University of Utah Press, 1995) and co-editor of Contested Landscape: The Politics of Wilderness in Utah and the West (University of Utah Press,1999). His journal publications include articles in Political Science Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Publius, Policy Studies Journal, Policy Studies Review, and Journal of the Southwest. He has served as a consultant for the U. S. Justice Department, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy. He is currently working a book concerning dam removal and river restoration.

Don McDermott
Don McDermott was described by David Brower at a GCI fund-raiser as an "eco-capitalist." He is known professionally for the considerable contributions he has made to the recycling industry as an advocate for sustainable development. Don is also a long-time friend and business advisor of the Glen Canyon Institute. He has lent his extensive financial and marketing expertise to many of our endeavors and promotional material. Don has a 30-year record of success in investments and venture capital, and is a "double-Domer" from Notre Dame, where he received his undergraduate degree in philosophy and master's in business. Don was also an All-American rugby player; but claims he is now making more rational decisions.

Tom Myers, Ph.D
Tom Myers, a former Bureau of Reclamation engineer and hydrologist in the
Lower Colorado Region, is a hydrologic consultant working with conservation
groups throughout the West. He has a Ph.D. in hydrology and over 20 years
of experience in the field. He also served as executive director of Great
Basin Mine Watch and Conservation Director of Friends of Nevada Wilderness.
Tom is very familiar with sediment, water resources and groundwater issues
around the Glen Canyon Dam and the Grand Canyon.

Flake Wells
Flake Wells brings us 20 years experience related to hydroelectric power development design and construction, having worked on major river projects throughout the U.S. from the Columbia to the Susquehanna. Subsequently, he transitioned from engineering design to finance and now works as a consulting analyst to various firms in the Midwest providing energy advisory services. He and his wife, LaDawn, live with their son in Indianapolis where they are involved with converting a civil war era church into a state-of-the art sound recording studio. Flake, who is also father to Ericka, our Education Outreach Director, is happy to further the GCI cause of restoring the Glen Canyon to a free-flowing river and offers his services in the areas of hydrology, power operations and economics as we continue to examine feasible alternatives to current uses of the River.

Bill Wolverton
Bill is a native of Fair Oaks, CA (Sacramento area). He is a Graduate of University of Wyoming, BS Mechanical Engineering, 1971. He is a lifelong hiker/backpacker, starting in California Sierra Nevada. He first visited the Escalante River canyons in 1979. He took photos that became baseline for later photo documentation showing process of recovery in flooded canyons of Glen Canyon. In fact, he visited Escalante River canyons every year since 1979 except 1981. He moved to Escalante in September, 1986, signed up as volunteer with Glen Canyon NRA the next day. He was worked in the Abolishment of Glen Canyon NRA Escalante Subdistrict Ranger position in 1985. He was hired as seasonal backcountry ranger in the Escalante Subdistrict in April 1988. He has been an Escalante seasonal ranger in 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 and has worked in Zion National Monument as well. He also has worked as a back country ranger in Canyonlands National Park. Since 2000, Bill has been a seasonal ranger in the Escalante Subdistrict of Glen Canyon. Currently he is working to eradicate invasive and non-native Russian Olive from Escalante River canyons, having completed just over half of the main river in Glen Canyon NRA and all but one major side canyon. He is also working on Tamarisk eradication selected canyons.