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Sara Boilen

BOARD CHAIR

Sara Boilen, PsyD., is a clinical psychologist by training. She is the founder and owner of Sweetgrass Psychological, a community minded clinic with the aim of helping Montanans experience mental wellness. There, she works with individuals as they reveal their brightest selves through assessment and therapy. Dr. Boilen conducted her dissertation research on the effects of rock climbing on a woman's sense of hope and courage. She is the author of the book, Ethics in Rural Psychology: Case Studies and Guidance for Practice.

Sara Boilen grew up hating physical challenges and sleeping on the ground. Once the choice to participate in the outdoors became hers, she developed a passion for adventure and came to discover that she could, in fact, do (and enjoy!) hard things. She's a mountaineer, a telemark skier, an ultrarunner, and a swimmer. She is known to carry desserts of all sorts up mountains to share with her friends.

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Lace Lawrence

BOARD VICE CHAIR

Lace turned a love of listening to stories into writing stories through a Communication, Public Relations degree at Washington State University. This in turn led to over 12 years of grant writing, event planning, and donor development in-house for organizations big and small. In 2016, Lace took a deep-dive into her true passion for using stories to bring communities together, and created Laced Together, her own Grant Writing contract business. Through Grant Writing, Lace has been able to amplify the stories of those most often ignored, forgotten, or silenced by systemic oppression and support the growth of organizations working towards a more equitable society.

Lace was raised on Yakama Indian Reservation surrounded by elders who loved to regale her with legends. When she is not writing grants, Lace loves to challenge herself in the outdoors especially, backpacking, solo camping, mountaineering, and skiing, and is an avid traveler. She has traveled and hiked all over the world, including in Vietnam and Guatemala. Her favorite and most challenging trip included her leading a six day, all female hike from France to Spain and back again in the Pyrenees; sleeping in abandoned huts, avoiding wild boar, and spotting the rare Pyrenees Chamois. Lace has a habit of constantly seeking new challenges and is learning to Mountain Bike, Trail Run, and continuing to hone her backcountry ski skills. She has also has a ridiculous love for her two dogs, Trooper Thorne a 75lb Walker Hound/Aussie and Tokul Took the 15lb, mustached, Schnoodle pup.

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Stacy Townes

BOARD TREASURER

Stacy is currently a Strategic Advisor and project-based management consultant at Zeevo Group LLC, which provides business, finance, and information technology consulting services and products to a broad range of clients representing such key industries as aircraft leasing, technology, and consumer products. Stacy has an extensive track record of solving critical problems faced by finance teams in internal audit, corporate governance and compliance, risk management, and intellectual property. Prior to joining Zeevo Group, Stacy held numerous leadership roles for nearly a decade at Intellectual Ventures based in Bellevue, Washington, with her most recent role leading its Internal Audit function. Additionally, Stacy spent many years at Deloitte, often traveling the globe, providing advisory services on behalf of Deloitte’s top-tier clients.

Stacy earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration focusing on Marketing and Management Information Systems from the University of Washington and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Internal Auditor (CIA). She lives in Seattle with her husband, Lewis, and their three children, which keep them busy (and entertained) indoors and out! When not adventuring with her family, you can find Stacy skiing, golfing, paddleboarding, hiking, upcycling/thrifting, or planning their next travel adventure.

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Stephanie Selin

BOARD TREASURER

With a combination of corporate experience at companies like Microsoft, and nonprofit experience with organizations like the Boys & Girls Clubs, Stephanie has a unique set of skills ranging from sales and program development to fundraising and community engagement. As a consultant and project manager, she works both independently as Tencap Consulting, and through other firms on contract with large organizations. Her favorite project to date was managing a successful political campaign to elect a local judicial candidate.

In her personal life Stephanie enjoys time in the mountains with her family – particularly at their 600 sq ft cabin (with no internet) in the North Cascades of Washington state. She grew up hiking and skiing in northern California, but living in Colorado and Washington deepened her love of snow and all things outdoors. She's taught skiing to young kids, snowshoes any chance she can get, and tackles a new ski mountain each winter.

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Tallie Segel

BOARD SECRETARY

Tallie is a long-time environmental educator focused on youth and adult conservation education programming, community based science, and justice-oriented /community-centered environmental education curriculum development. She's committed to anti-racist/ anti-oppressive education practices that celebrate cultural and community relationships to the land, biological diversity and how those relationships foster possibilities for a more just and sustainable future.
Tallie works in a variety of capacities to support environmental and outdoor learning for learners of all ages. Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, she is currently a graduate student at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec working on a PhD in social and cultural analysis focusing on the growing diversity, equity and inclusion movement in environmental education and relationships between environmental education and environmental/biodiversity conservation governance.

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Andria Huskinson

BOARD MEMBER

Andria is PR Manager at Alta Ski Resort and a former competitive skier. After meeting fellow board member Connie Marshall while still in university, she decided to embark on a career in Public Relations in the ski industry. She has experience being an event director and has put on several events, including a 200-mile relay race event. Andria is grateful to continue Connie's legacy at Alta and in the ski industry.

Andria grew up in Idaho on a potato farm. She learned to ski at Grand Targhee with her parents, who both taught ski school at Targhee. She fell in love with steeper terrain, the powder skiing in trees, and the community at Alta, which she never left. She met the three founders of SheJumps in her early days competing on the big mountain circuit in America and the World Tour. She was one of the women who climbed the Grand Teton as the inaugural SheJumps event.

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Angela "Angie" Cesena

BOARD MEMBER

Angie is a poderosa promoting transformative justice, mental health awareness, ni una menos, and safe and equitable spaces for all. She is a proud aunt to Justice and Love, one of five incredible siblings, a daughter of immigrant parents, and a first generation college graduate (Go Card!). She has been in the nonprofit world for over ten years, and has served in the Peace Corps in Paraguay and AmeriCorps in New York. Angie is currently serving as the Executive Director of Latina SafeHouse, a local Denver nonprofit that provides bilingual and culturally responsive services to Latiné survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, and is completing her Masters in Nonprofit Management.

When she is not working or volunteering, you can find Angie getting lost in the outdoors with her two pups- Apollo (Pollo) and Luna, carbo-loading before and after a run, enjoying live music, or spending time with friends and family.

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Angela Kim

BOARD MEMBER

Angela is currently a consultant at Slalom Consulting, which is a global business and tech implementation firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington. She also has over 8 years of finance experience, working for various global investment management firms advising individuals, families, businesses, and non-profits. Angela is passionate about working with data to drive smarter business decisions and helping her clients solve their most difficult problems through innovative approaches. In her current work, she has successfully managed cross functional teams and has transformed processes and tools, providing measurable efficiencies. Angela has an Economics degree from the University of Washington and is a CFA Charterholder.

Angela is constantly seeking for new challenges and will likely say yes to try a new activity. Her current favorite activities include running, backpacking, surfing, and skiing. She has met many of her closest friends through one or many of these activities and values the supportive community she has built in the outdoors.Angela is constantly seeking for new challenges and will likely say yes to try a new activity. Her current favorite activities include running, backpacking, surfing, and skiing. She has met many of her closest friends through one or many of these activities and values the supportive community she has built in the outdoors.

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Chris Gamache

BOARD MEMBER

Chris practiced law for almost 30 years, initially as a business litigator and eventually working in the healthcare sector as General Counsel. During much of her legal career, Chris assisted both newly formed and established companies with corporate formation, corporate and regulatory compliance, contracting, intellectual property and employment law. Chris has also participated in financial oversight and strategic planning activities, both in her capacity as General Counsel and while serving as a Board Member for the ACLU of Washington. During her tenure as an attorney, Chris and her wife Judy owned and operated two breakfast diners in Seattle, where Chris did the accounting and spent (too) many weekend days making toast or washing dishes.

Chris now teaches skiing in Sun Valley, Idaho. When not teaching, she loves to snowshoe with Judy and their dog Zola and has started to do some backcountry skiing. Once the snow melts, Chris can be found backpacking, biking, trying to catch a fish, or paddleboarding with her sister. While their two kids were growing up, Chris and Judy spent lots of time with them exploring the outdoors and are happy that they both still occasionally want to tag along.

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Kenzie Rodriguez

BOARD MEMBER

Kenzie Rodriguez is the Chief Marketing Officer at Outdoor Prolink, whose mission is to outfit professional stewards of the great outdoors so they can protect and promote wild places for all to enjoy. In her role, Kenzie leads the marketing and membership teams as they work to build partnerships with the best outdoor brands and grow a massive community of outdoor professionals in the United States and Canada. She has led her team in key philanthropic initiatives that have generated over $100,000 per year in charitable giving to outdoor nonprofits, and has been spearheading the company's Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion programs. Kenzie packs over a decade of experience in corporate strategy, business development, digital marketing, community development, branding, art direction and customer acquisition.

Kenzie is of Puerto-Rican heritage and was born and raised in Pittsburgh where she grew up playing soccer, running track and field, and skiing with her family on the weekends. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, Kenzie moved to Colorado to play outside as much as possible. Kenzie now resides in Whitefish, Montana where she loves to backcountry ski, snowmobile, mountain bike, paddleboard and skateboard.

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Kristina Ciari

BOARD MEMBER

Kristina is a skier, climber, runner, writer, and tutu enthusiast based in Seattle. Her passion for the outdoors began at age 3 in Bozeman, Montana, where she grew up skiing and camping. She moved to Seattle to attend UW, graduating with a Bachelor's Degree in Business marketing in 2006. Kristina passion for writing and adventure landed her a dream job as the Membership & Communications Director at The Mountaineers, a regional, volunteer-led nonprofit connecting people to the power of wild places. For the past 7-years with The Mountaineers, she's used her experience understanding consumer behavior, developing communication strategies, and growing relationships to foster thriving, supportive communities. Kristina is strongly committed to JEDI work, and believes that all people should feel belonging in the outdoors.

Kristina spends her weekends chasing snow in the pursuit of Turns All Year, a ridiculous endeavor to ski at least one day every month (she's at over 100 consecutive months), and her favorite time of year is 'volcano season'. Kristina credits the outdoor community with continually inspiring her to get outside of her comfort zone, and she's still writing about all things outdoors – from why you need a down skirt to how to be a beginner – on her blog.

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Michelle Taft

BOARD MEMBER

Michelle is a civil litigator and a partner with the firm Johnson, Graffe, Keay, Moniz & Wick, LLP in Seattle, Washington, where she has practiced since 2014. Michelle has an Economics degree from the University of Southern California, where she was also a member of the Women’s Varsity Rowing Team, and a JD from the University of Washington School of Law. Michelle’s legal practice focuses on defending civil claims brought against healthcare providers and facilities, administrative healthcare actions, and general civil liability defense. Michelle also has experience serving on volunteer boards and is an active member of the Crystal Mountain Volunteer Ski Patrol, which allows her to foster her passion for the outdoors and give back to her mountain community.

Born and raised in Tacoma, Washington, Michelle grew up with a love of the Pacific Northwest and its vibrant outdoor community. In her free time, she can usually be found in the mountains or on the water, skiing, hiking, and paddle boarding with her husband and two rescue dogs.

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Rachelle Stanko

BOARD MEMBER

I am extremely passionate about one thing and that is volunteering!” Being a part of an organization, building community, and helping raise funds to support a cause brings Rachelle a sense of belonging unlike anything else. She learned this at an early age, growing up in a home where volunteering was a vital part of family life. She continues to foster her love of volunteering through her current involvement as a SheJumps Board member. Previously, she spent 26 years volunteering for the Junior League in both St Paul, MN and Tacoma, WA.

Rachelle is a mom to Annelene and wife to Mike. Raised in MN, another family tradition was Sunday outdoor time regardless of the temperature or weather. Cross country skiing in -10 degrees? Yep, sign her up! She brought this love of the outdoors to her husband and daughter - together, they spend as much time on the trails (snow covered preferably) and on/in the water, embracing all the goodness mother nature serves up. Spending time outside is key to maintaining both her physical and mental health and balances out time spent at a desk. In her professional career, she’s mastered the art of project/program management helping drive change and grow program engagement at both REI & Nordstrom.

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