BRYCE BALUSEK
Employee Engagement/Recognition Program Manager
T-Mobile
BOB BERKEBILE
Principal
BNIM Architects
GERRON BLACKWELL
Senior Director, Commercial Asset Management
REC Power
CARI FERRARA
Director of Marketing
Evergy
TOM GEREND
Executive Director
Kansas City Streetcar Authority
SARA GREENWOOD
Principal
Greenwood Consulting Group, LLC
ASHOK GUPTA
Director of Programs
Natural Resources Defense Council
AMY HARGROVES, CHAIR
Owner Operator
Stark Caverns
TOM JACOBS
Environmental Program Director
Mid-America Regional Council
JAKE JONES
Founder & Principal Consultant
What On Earth
KIMBERLY JONES
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.
Beta Omega Chapter
TOM POER, VICE CHAIR
Vice President, Water Resources
HNTB Corporation
JESSICA SCHMITZ, TREASURER
Assurance Services Manager
RubinBrown LLP
POOJA SHAH, SECRETARY
Senior Consultant, Power & Renewables
DNV
WESTON WHITE
Director, Infrastructure & Facilities
Kansas City National Security Campus
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
Hannah Conner, Epidemiologist
Kansas City University Center for Population Health & Equity
Lynn Loughry, Horticulture Extension Agent
Kansas State Extension Services
Mark Morales, Community Voice
Sheffield Neighborhood
Taylor Neff, Community Forester
Missouri Department of Conservation
Matt Norville, Community Forestry Program Coordinator
Kansas Forest Service
Ryan Rastok, Owner & Arborist
Lawrence Arborists
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
Andy Carmack, Biologist
Missouri Department of Conservation
Matt Garrett, Field Biologist
Johnson County Parks and Recreation District
Jake Jones, Founder and Principal Consultant
What On Earth
Mary Nemecek, Conservationist
Burroughs Audubon Society of Greater Kansas City
Larry Rizzo, Biologist
Habitat Architects
Chad Scholes, Ph.D., Biology Professor
Rockhurst University
Megan Shumaker, Environmental Chair
Shumaker Family Foundation
