Authors & Presenters



posted May 20, 2020

Amy Kaeser

Amy Kaeser grew up exploring her backyard in the Pacific Northwest, eventually graduating to hiking and backpacking in the Cascades and Olympic Mountains. In the Bay Area, Amy has worked on efforts to restore fish migration, create pollinator and wil...


posted May 20, 2020

Amber Hasselbring

Amber is the Executive Director of the San Francisco based nonprofit, Nature in the City, and provides leadership and guidance for its projects, staff, advisory council, and strategy. Amber has served Nature in the City as an advisory council member ...


posted May 20, 2020

Ben Pease

Ben Pease is a freelance cartographer who specializes in maps for authors, park agencies and hiking guidebooks. His Pease Press maps show San Francisco Bay Area parks, neighborhoods, and transit connections in detail. He drew the downloadable maps an...


posted May 20, 2020

Matthew Blain

Matthew Blain grew up hiking and riding bikes in Philadelphia and has been interested in bicycle and trail issues in the decades and cities since then. In 2008 he moved to San Francisco and became more involved both in Mountain Biking and bike advoca...


posted May 20, 2020

Bob Siegel

An avid hiker, backpacker, and bicyclist since his teenage years, Bob, after retiring in 2003 from a teaching career at City College of San Francisco, has been volunteering in citizen science and trail building activities. In 2018, he formed the comm...


posted May 15, 2020

Brandon Weyant

Creative Pultrusions (Manufacturer of E.T. Techtonics Products)...


posted May 13, 2020

Jane Daniels

Jane Daniels is a 40+ year volunteer with the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference with roles ranging from the shovel to the board room. She has been supervising the volunteers who maintain trails in the Town of Yorktown in Westchester County since M...


posted May 13, 2020

Liz Thorstensen

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posted May 12, 2020

Maianna Voge

Maianna Voge is Associate Director of GreenInfo Network, which has been mapping and analyzing data for parks and open space agencies and advocates since 1996. In collaboration with State Parks, academic researchers, and nonprofit advocates, GreenInfo...


posted May 12, 2020

Ben Kaufman

Ben Kaufman is the Western Regional Trail Development Manager of the Rails to Trails Conservancy, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a nationwide network of trails from former rail lines and connecting corridors to build healthier places ...