OUR STAFF

Jeanne McCarty

Jeanne McCarty

Executive Director

Growing up in the Piney Woods of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Jeanne spent hours watching the frogs and crawdads in the meandering creek behind her family’s home.  more

 

Marissa Bland

Administrative Assistant

 
Jeff Cross

Jeff Cross 

Director, Finance and Operations

Counting has always been one of Jeff’s strengths. When he was a kid, his parents commissioned him to pull weeds for pennies in the backyard. After a few hours, Jeff did the math.  more

 
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Carolyn Phillips 

Manager, Corporate Engagement

Carolyn loved adventures with her big brother in the creek bed of the ravine behind their childhood home in Central Texas. She has fond memories of those warm summer days raiding the honeysuckle vine that covered the back gate...more

 
 Sarah Darley

Sarah (Darley) Geer 

Director, Foundation and Individual Relations

It was under the towering pine trees at her family’s lake house in East Texas that Sarah first stood in awe of nature and came to appreciate being small…and yet a part of something greater.  more

 
Scott Feille

Scott Feille 

Regional Director, North Texas

For Scott, fishing trips with Granddad “J” at Caddo Lake in East Texas weren’t about fishing. “Looking back, catching fish was secondary,” he recalls.  more

 Kendra Lemon

Kendra Lemon

Program Assistant and Volunteer Coordinator

During Kendra’s childhood in Detroit, Michigan, she enjoyed many years as a very active and involved Girl Scout, participating from early elementary school through high school. She has fond memories of learning and exploring nature...more




Manager, Garden Projects

(Open Position, North Texas Region)



Alison Risso

Director, Marketing and Communications

Ellen Robinson

Ellen Robinson

Manager, Programs and Services

After a childhood of summers spent exploring the countryside with her family in a tiny pop-up camper, Ellen felt herself pulled towards mountains as a young adult. After graduating, she moved from Illinois to Colorado where she lived at the base of the Rockies... more


Eric Vanderbeck

Eric Vanderbeck (Mr. V.)

Educator

Deep in the quiet woods behind his home, 10-year-old Eric felt content and protected as he explored nature’s hidden mysteries, poking his finger into every conceivable crevice for investigations of what lived there.  more

 
         

 
 

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