Board of Directors

 

Karen Cox – Chair
Nevada City, CA
Karen has had a long career with the San Francisco Public Library. She is currently board member and vice-president of the Rural Quality Coalition and has served as the Conservation Chair with the Sierra Nevada Chapter of the Sierra Club.

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Sue Gunckel
Albuquerque, NM
Sue brings a lifetime of experience in accounting practice and education as well as experience on a number of boards of directors for non-profit groups.  She backpacked and camped throughout the western U.S. and the Atlantic provinces of Canada; served as the finance person for the Rocky Mountain Outing Chair for the Sierra Club for 3 years in the 1980s; and is a member of numerous conservation and environmental advocacy organizations.  She joined Great Old Broads for Wilderness at the invitation of one of Broads early board members, E.J. Evangelos, soon after it was founded.

 

Saralaine Millet – Vice Chair
Tucson, AZ
Saralaine soaked up wilderness lore as a child from her father who worked as a surveyor in the Everglades. She took her own first wilderness hikes in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, and enjoyed exploring Sahara desert wadis in Egyptian Nubia in the sixties. While raising three kids in Toronto, she served on the Board of Directors of La Leche League Canada, and is currently a volunteer at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, a native plant enthusiast and xeriscape gardener at her home in the Arizona Upland section of the Sonoran Desert west of Tucson.

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Karen Ryman – Treasurer
Aspen, CO
Karen Ryman fell in love with the great outdoors as a girl in California where she went on many Girl Scout camping trips in the San Bernardino Mountains. But her appreciation for the environments in which she hiked and camped was awakened and cultivated by Great Old Broads for Wilderness founder Dottie Fox after she moved to Dottie’s backyard in the early 1960s – Aspen, Colorado. She volunteers with the Forest Conservancy as a volunteer Ranger at Maroon Bells Scenic Area and as a trail monitor in White River National Forest. She is also a volunteer with the Wilderness Workshop that is advocating for the protection, as congressionally-designated wilderness, of 477,000 acres of wild land in the Hidden Gems of Colorado.

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Lois Snedden
Reno, NV
Lois has been a wilderness and wild lands activist for more than 25 years. In 1982, she embarked on a volunteer career with the Sierra Club where she led local and national outings, chaired the Toiyabe Chapter (in Reno), and held most chapter positions including political, state legislative, and fundraising. She served a three-year term on the Sierra Club Board’s Executive Committee. No longer on the Sierra Club board, she now focuses her efforts on desert issues, including the siting of transmission lines and solar power plants, and on mining. And she serves on the Steering Committee for the California-Nevada Regional Conservation Committee as Nevada Vice-Chair.

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Shelley Spalding
Elma, WA
Shelley is a fish biologist who has worked for Wild Salmon and Trout Alliance, Skokomish Tribe, Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, Olympic National Forest and, most recently, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). While working for USFWS, she focused on bull trout research and recovery, water temperature standards for salmonids, and the Washington Forest Practice Rules. She has expertise in fisheries, watershed restoration, riparian function, climate change, and grassroots organizing. Shelley recently retired and is the Polly Dyer/Cascadia Broadband leader for Broads. She is also a Board member for the Olympic Forest Coalition.

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Lee Verner
Bayfield, CO

Lee was drawn to Broads many years ago when she came across a “bold color photograph of two (or was it three) older women standing in profile looking staunchly and fiercely toward a desert landscape,” she said. “Now, there is the way I want to get old,” she thought at the time.  “Caring for the land, and staying sturdy and tough in the process!” After a career in marriage and family therapy and teaching in Indiana, she and her husband retired to Colorado where Lee encountered Broads again. She was co-leader of the Four Corners Broadband for two years and has stepped into the Trustee position to help keep Broads “strong and solvent.”

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Director Responsibilities

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Calling Passionate Broads to serve on our Board of Directors

Volunteer Opportunity: We are currently looking for wildly passionate Broads to serve on our Board of Directors. Directors are responsible for organizational governance, policy development, and assuring that the necessary resources  – including funds, staff, and professional expertise – are available to accomplish Broads mission.