Authors & Presenters



posted Aug 28, 2019

Hannah Traverse

Hannah Traverse is the Communications Manager at The Corps Network, the National Association of Service and Conservation Corps. The Corps Network, a member organization of American Trails, serves and represents more than 130 Corps across the United S...


posted Aug 14, 2019

Rachel Price

Rachel Price works as the AmeriCorps Program Director at Palmetto Conservation Foundation in Columbia, South Carolina. Rachel has managed the Palmetto Conservation Corps since its launch in the Fall of 2016. She graduated from the University of South...


posted Aug 14, 2019

Shandiin Nez

Shandiin joined the Southwest Conservation Corps (SCC) in 2013, following two field seasons as a Corpsmember and then leading a trail crew in 2015. Shandiin then lead a professional trail crew in the Cascade Mountains with the Mountains to Sound Gree...


posted Aug 1, 2019

Zachary T. Likins

Zachary T. Likins is a Trail Planner with Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation. He has over 7 years of professional experience in a variety of progressively responsible planning roles, including expertise in long-range planning, design review, pro...


posted Aug 1, 2019

Dora Nuñez

Dora Nuñez is the Special Assistant to the Director & Head of Communications, Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation...


posted Aug 1, 2019

Michelle O'Connor

Michelle O’Connor oversees Trails Planning for the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation Planning & Development Agency. She has more than 13 years of public sector experience with a focus on park planning and project management. M...


posted Aug 1, 2019

Sheela Kleinknecht

Sheela Kleinknecht is a Trail Planner with Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation...


posted Jul 29, 2019

James "Jim" Coffman

Jim Coffman is a registered Arizona and Arkansas landscape architect whose experience mixes 30+ years of environmentally conscious and sustainable, public, and private-sector work with over 13 years of teaching at Arizona State University and the Uni...


posted Jul 3, 2019

Matthew Woodson

Matt Woodson has been a wilderness trails development contractor for more than 38 years. He has worked extensively on the remediation of multi-use trails. His work has even reached as far as Africa, working with the USFS International Program to trai...


posted Jul 2, 2019

Patrick Pfeifer

Patrick believes in the power of possibility. A common thread throughout Patrick’s career is the quest for possibility – whether in the mountains of Arizona managing forest restoration operations, launching multicultural community programs, or reimag...