Authors & Presenters



posted Sep 1, 2021

Nancy Hobbs

Nancy Hobbs has been running trails and directing running events since the mid-80s and her articles and photographs about the sport have been published in magazines including Runner's World, Running Times, Trail Runner, and Ultrarunning magazine. Alo...


posted Sep 1, 2021

Jaime Loucky

Growing up in Bellingham, with the North Cascades practically in his backyard, Jaime developed a lifelong passion for hiking, backpacking and spending time surrounded by trees and mountains. That passion followed him as he traveled to the East Coast ...


posted Aug 23, 2021

Sam Herzberg

Sam Herzberg has been a Senior Planner with the San Mateo County Parks Department for 22 years, and worked for the San Mateo County Planning Department 9 ½ years before that. He is experienced in park, urban, natural resource, marina, sustainability,...


posted Aug 11, 2021

Curt Kruger

Cofounder and President of Trail Partners Foundation, former Director of Marin Horse Council. 30 years field marketing positions with national corporations dealing with environmental products. MBA - UC Berkeley, BS Mechanical Engineering - Worcester ...


posted Aug 11, 2021

Deonne Vanderwoude

Deonne VanderWoude is the Human Dimensions Supervisor for the City of Boulder’s (Colorado) Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP) Department, where she has worked for 17 years to integrate monitoring human systems with data-informed recreation manageme...


posted Aug 11, 2021

Ryan Ojero

Ryan Ojerio has been involved in trails advocacy, planning, construction, and maintenance for the last 13 years while working for Washington Trails Association (WTA). Although a hiking focused non-profit, WTA has a history of successful collaboration...


posted Aug 11, 2021

Dennis Benson

Dennis Benson has worked for the Forest Service for 34 years and is currently the Recreation Program Manager on the Deschutes National Forest in Bend, Oregon. Overall use on the Deschutes has more than doubled in the last five years. The combination ...


posted Aug 7, 2021

Jody Karr

Jody Karr is the former Program Director of the Texas Conservation Corps at American YouthWorks. With over 20 years of non-profit management experience, Jody was instrumental in the cultivation of many AYW initiatives, including the ACCC program. She...


posted Aug 7, 2021

Jen Tirado

Jen Tirado, born and raised in the Bronx. Founder and principal of Impact Jedi consulting firm where she works with nonprofits, corporations and the local community in strategy and action planning for social and environmental solutions. She has spent...


posted Aug 3, 2021

David Wiens

Dave has been mountain biking since the mid-1980s and has ridden and raced his bike on trails all over the world. He has been involved in trail advocacy for more than thirty years and was the founder and executive director of Gunnison Trails, the tra...