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TREC Board of Directors
We are activists helping activists with the business of activism.
Ed Lewis, Board President
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Phone: (505) 986-8400
Jim Stratton, Board Vice-President
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Stephanie Cairns, Board Secretary-Treasurer
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Andy Gordon, Board Member
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Dyan Oldenburg, Board Member and Executive Director
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Juri Peepre, Board Member
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Board
President Ed
Lewis, J.D. provides programmatic, organizational and
strategic planning consulting to the conservation community and
environmental grant makers. Representative clients have included
Brainerd Foundation, Bullitt Foundation and Earthjustice. He is
presently board chair of Earthjustice and serves on the boards of
the National Parks Conservation Association and the LaSalle Adams
Fund. Ed also served as Executive Director of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. From 1969 to 1986, he was a partner in the Phoenix, Arizona law firm of Lewis and Roca, practicing in the areas of commercial transactions and commercial litigation. Ed lives in Bozeman, Montana.
Board
Vice-President Jim Stratton was raised in Oregon and a long-time resident of Alaska. Jim brings over 30 years of public lands advocacy experience to the TREC Board. His first wilderness battles were volunteering with the Oregon Wilderness Coalition (now Oregon Wild) during the RARE II days of the late 70s. Since moving to Alaska he’s advocated for sane forest policy in the Tongass National Forest as Executive Director of the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council and then focused statewide as Program and Finance Director of Alaska Conservation Foundation, a position he held for 11 years. After an 8 stint as Director of Alaska State Parks, Stratto now works for the National Parks Conservation Association as Senior Regional Director for Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. He is an original board member with TREC and has numerous other volunteer commitments including the board of his local land trust and he hosts the Arctic Cactus Hour every Saturday night on Anchorage public radio.
Board Secretary-Treasurer Stephanie
Cairns is an analyst, strategist and advisor in the field of sustainable development. Her consulting practice, Wrangellia Consulting, provides strategic advice and policy analysis focusing ecological fiscal reform, climate change and energy policy. Clients include major think tanks, federal government departments, leadership corporations and non-government organizations. Stephanie started her career in the NGO sector, in senior positions with the Pembina Institute and Friends of the Earth International. She was the sustainable development advisor to the Liberal Caucus on Parliament Hill from 1991-1993, and a strategic advisor in the Prime Minister’s Office, managing the development of the 1997 Liberal election platform. Stephanie sits on the Executive Committee of Board of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, is the Past President of the National Board of Trustees of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, and a past member of the President's Advisory Council of the Royal Society of Canada. Stephanie lives in Victoria, BC.
Board
Member Andy
Gordon is a commercial litigator with a national reputation in business, antitrust, health care law and appellate work. Andy also is an expert in state election law issues, having represented a wide array of elected officials and campaigns, including former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, and number of initiative and referendum campaigns. He also has considerable expertise from his governmental service in national security legal issues. Prior to joining the Department of Homeland Security in April 2009, Andy was listed in Best Lawyers in America for antitrust, commercial litigation, and health care, in Super Lawyers for commercial litigation, and had an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell. From April 2009 to October 2010, Andy was Counsel to the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, working primarily on national security issues relating to Guantanamo detention and the Southwestern border. He also represented DHS on three presidential commissions dealing with national security issues.
Board
Member and TREC Executive Director Dyan
Oldenburg founded Training Resources for the Environmental Community
(TREC) in 1997. As executive director, she assists in developing and
directing TREC’s programs and provides services to TREC clients. She
has worked on numerous legislative, electoral and issue campaigns since
1979. Dyan ably assists environmental nonprofits in growing their leaders,
boards and organizations. Her love of the wild people and the wild places
and critters that they’ve dedicated their lives to saving is what keeps
her going. She is dedicated to helping groups meet their missions and
manage change. Her straw bale, solar house at the end of the road is
her refuge. She can often be seen riding one of her horses in the back
country of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Northern New Mexico with
her dog Bella running along side her. She is a graduate of Antioch College
with a degree in political science, management and community service.
Board Member
Juri Peepre is a long-time conservationist with a love for wilderness, mountains and wild rivers. After 20 years in the Yukon, he now lives in BC, and continues to work on protected area campaigns in Canada's west and the North. He is the Regional Council Chair of Wildsight, a conservation NGO serving southeast BC, and a project manager with the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative. Juri was the executive director of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - Yukon Chapter and also served as the national president of CPAWS. He was Yukon coordinator for the ten-year World Wildlife Fund Endangered Spaces campaign. Prior to moving North, Juri was the chair of the Outdoor Recreation Council of B.C. and worked as a protected areas consultant.