Authors & Presenters



posted Jan 17, 2023

Sandy Brown

Sandy Brown is one of the world's premier pilgrimage trekking guidebook authors, with popular guides to the Camino De Santiago (2018, 2020), Via di Francesco (2015, 2017, 2019), Via Francigena - Part 1: Canterbury to Lausanne (2023), Via Francigena -...


posted Jun 7, 2021

Sara Daleiden

Sara Daleiden facilitates civic engagement within developing landscapes, exercising arts and cultural exchange strategies based in over two decades of experience. With headquarters in Los Angeles and Milwaukee, her initiatives including MKE<->L...


posted Jun 4, 2019

Sara Hart

Sara Hart is a park planner for New York State Parks and a resident of the beautiful Hudson Valley. Sara Hart has a long professional history planning for public land use and recreation in the region. Originally from Hungary, Sara started out as a la...


posted Jun 4, 2019

Sara Patterson

Sara Patterson, PhD, EIT, LEED AP; Michael Baker International. Sara Patterson has a PhD in Civil Engineering from University of Delaware and a Bachelor of Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her dissertation work focused on the desig...


posted Dec 21, 2020

Sarah DeStefano

Sarah DeStefano is an accomplished project manager with more than 20 years of experience in the areas of environmental assessment, remediation, and Brownfields redevelopment, Sarah has spent her entire career in Brownfields. Her past roles at the Rho...


posted Feb 1, 2018

Sarah Hippensteel Hall, PhD

Sarah believes that water is a critical element for community health and prosperity and communities who enjoy their rivers are more likely to protect their water. She currently serves as the Manager of Watershed Partnerships for the Miami Conservancy...


posted Mar 3, 2021

Sarah Olson

Sarah Olson, MPA serves as Deputy Director of Lynnwood Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts in Washington State. She oversees long-range planning, capital development, and healthy communities programming for a growing suburban community. Under her lea...


posted Mar 10, 2022

Sarah Pelkey

Sarah Pelkey is the Economic Development Coordinator for the Town of Poultney, VT. Her background spans several decades in community development and revitalization, planning, marketing and business development, and construction project management. Th...


posted Jun 5, 2019

Sasha Eisenstein

Sasha Eisenstein is the Trail Manager and Business Development Specialist for the Canal Corporation. Sasha comes to us from Audubon, NY where she served as Government Relations Manager, developing and managing a comprehensive statewide strategy that ...


posted Sep 14, 2021

Scott Gordon

Scott Gordon has trail experience spanning 20 years during which he has designed dozens of successful new trails, reroutes and retrofits. He sees trails as both a recreational amenity and a tool to manage visitors and protect cultural and natural res...