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BRIDGING THE GAP

Board of Directors

BOB BERKEBILE

Principal
BNIM Architects

KRISTIN EDIE

Vice President of Enterprise Sustainability
Hallmark Cards

CARI FERRARA

Director of Marketing
Evergy

TOM GEREND

Executive Director
Kansas City Streetcar Authority

ASHTOK GUPTA

Director of Programs
Natural Resources Defense Council

AMY HARGROVES

Owner Operator
Stark Caverns

TOM JACOBS

Environmental Program Director
Mid-America Regional Council

JAKE JONES

Founder & Principal Consultant
What On Earth

DR. MARVIA JONES

Director
Kansas City, Missouri Health Department

JASMIN MOORE

Senior Director of Sustainability + Impact
Earthjustice

BRAD NIES, CHAIR

Sustainable Design Program Expert
Government Employee

JASON PARSON

President and CEO
Parson + Associates

TOM POER

Vice President, Water Resources
HNTB Corporation

POOJA SHAH

Senior Consultant, Power & Renewables
DNV

GLENN STRAUSSER

Director, Infrastructure & Facilities
Kansas City National Security Campus

ERIC ZIEGENHORN

Attorney at Law
Creative Planning, Inc.

PROGRAM REPRESENTATIVES

Kansas City WildLands: Ginevera Moore, Kansas State Director, The Conservation Fund
Heartland Tree Alliance: Robert Whitman, Associate Vice President, Landscape Architect, MultiStudio

HEARTLAND TREE ALLIANCE STEERING COMMITTEE

Dustin Branick, Superintendent of Parks
City of Leawood, Kansas

Chuck Conner, Community Forester
Missouri Department of Conservation

Jared Lind, Owner
Private Tree Care

Lynn Loughry, Horticulture Extension Agent
Kansas State Extension Services

Taylor Neff, Community Forester
Missouri Department of Conservation

Matt Norville, Community Forestry Program Coordinator
Kansas Forest Service

Wendy Sangster, Community Forester
Missouri Department of Conservation

Geoff Vossen, Vegetation Management
Evergy

Robert Whitman, Associate Vice President, Landscape Architect
MultiStudio

KANSAS CITY WILDLANDS STEERING COMMITTEE

Matt Garrett, Field Biologist
Johnson County Parks and Recreation District

Ginevera Moore, Kansas State Director
The Conservation Fund

Mary Nemecek, Conservationist
Burroughs Audubon Society of Greater Kansas City

Jake Jones, Founder and Principal Consultant
What On Earth

Larry Rizzo, Biologist
Habitat Architects

Chad Scholes, Ph.D., Biology Professor
Rockhurst University

Megan Shumaker, Environmental Chair
Shumaker Family Foundation