Candy Fazakerley, National Jury Chair
President, CG Investments
Middleburg, Virginia
Candy Fazakerley was the owner and principal of CRE, a commercial real estate company which specialized in the sale of corporate and association headquarters building in the Washington, D.C., area. She and her husband are partners in CG Investments, a commercial real estate development firm which develops, constructs, and manages office buildings and hotels in the Washington area and most recently, San Francisco, CA. Candy is currently an active Board Member of Middleburg Humane, a non-profit dedicated to saving and rescuing animals in the Virginia Hunt Country where she and her husband currently reside. She has two sons and four grandchildren who reside in the San Francisco Bay area.
Jay Abbe
Retired President/COO, JDS Uniphase
Healdsburg, California
Jay and his wife, Karen, reside on their ranch and vineyards outside of Healdsburg, California, 70 miles north of San Francisco, where they grow grapes and produce a modest amount of wine. Jay is a retired technology business executive, having served as Chief Executive Officer of Optical Coating Laboratory in the late 1990s and President and Chief Operating Officer of JDS Uniphase, a fiber optics company, until his retirement in 2001. Prior to his operating roles, Jay also served for 18 years as a management consultant and senior partner with McKinsey & Company. Following retirement, he has remained active as a director of several public companies, a trustee of his independent secondary school in Pennsylvania, and several local community organizations in Sonoma County. Since 2009, Jay has served on the board of American Prairie, an organization that is creating the largest nature reserve in the continental United States. Having grown up outside of Philadelphia in a very East Coast family, where “the West” meant Ohio, Jay connected strongly to Montana during a summer job in 1961 working on the Minuteman missile at the height of the Cold War.
Alan Airth
Newport Beach, California
Alan Airth is a member of the Board of Directors at Mars, Incorporated. He is chairman of the Board Digital Sub-Committee and the Board Advisor Search Committee, as well as serving on the Audit and the Benefits Funding & Investment Oversight Committees.
Prior to joining the Mars board in 2016, Alan was a successful commercial real estate executive. He has extensive experience in asset management, property investment, and executive leadership with a variety of national firms as both manager and owner. Alan was a trusted advisor to Bank of America and Wells Fargo Bank during the 2008-2012 great recession. He served on the SoCal Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties Board of Directors for 10 years holding multiple leadership roles including President of the organization.
He serves on the American Prairie Board of Directors and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Foundation Board. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Orange County Council, Boy Scouts of America, and a lifetime member of the National Eagle Scout Association. He holds a Fellowship with the National Association of Corporate Directors and is a member of the Private Directors Association. Alan has a Bachelor’s degree in finance and real estate from the University of Arizona and earned his MBA from The Anderson School at UCLA.
Stephen Badger
Director, Producer
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Stephen Mills Badger II, born September 1968, attended Duke University and Reed College, and, in 1992, graduated from Union Institute in Cincinnati, OH, with a BA in Anthropology. He was one of the largest investors and key developmental influencers of Seeds of Change, an organic seed and food company and was President of the company from 1995-2004. From 2004-2008 Stephen led Corporate Affairs for Mars, Incorporated as the Global Director. In March of 2008, Stephen joined the Mars, Incorporated Board and became Chairman in March of 2011 and served for its term of three years. In March 2017 he assumed the role again for another three-year term.
Other boards include/have included Island Press, Permacultura Latin America, The Africa Society, The Association for Traditional Arts, Project Hempstead Heart, Santa Fe Preparatory School, and the Muscle Shoals Music Foundation. Stephen also produced “Muscle Shoals” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013.
David A. Coulter
Vice Chairman, Managing Director and Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus
Darien, Connecticut
Mr. Coulter served as Vice Chairman, Managing Director and Senior Advisor at Warburg Pincus, focusing on the firm’s financial services practice from 2005 – 2014.
Mr. Coulter retired in September 2005 as vice chairman of J.P. Morgan & Chase Co. He previously served as Executive Chairman of its investment bank, asset and wealth management, and private equity business. Mr. Coulter was a member of the firm’s three person Office of the Chairman and also its executive committee.
Mr. Coulter came to J.P. Morgan Chase via its July 2000 acquisition of The Beacon Group, a small merchant banking operation. Before joining The Beacon Group, Mr. Coulter was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the BankAmerica Corporation and Bank of America NT & SA. His career at Bank of America was from 1976 to 1998 and covered a wide range of banking activities.
He served on the board of Aeolus Re, MBIA, Webster Bank, Sterling Financial and the Strayer Corporation. He currently is on the board of The Providence Service Corp., Triton International, and Varo Money, Inc. He also serves on the boards of Lincoln Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Asia Society of Northern California, American Prairie, Third Way, Macaulay Honors College, and IQ2.
He received both his B.S. and his M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University and currently serves as a Trustee for Carnegie Mellon.
Yogen Dalal
Palo Alto, California
Yogen is on the board of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Past board services include the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, KQED, Theatreworks and Benetech. Both he and his wife Peggy are members of Impact Partners, an organization that funds independent documentaries on pressing social issues. In 2010 he co-founded, and seed funded Glooko, a company focused on creating a unified software platform for diabetes outcomes management, and currently serves on its board. He retired from Mayfield Fund in 2015 after 25 years as a venture capitalist. Prior to Mayfield, he was a founding member of two startups, Claris Corporation and Metaphor Computer Systems. He was an original member of the Star and Ethernet development teams at Xerox, and a co-author of the Internet’s TCP Specification in 1974 while a graduate student at Stanford.
Tracy Frist
Farmer, Teacher, Writer
Franklin, Tennessee
Tracy is an educator, businesswoman, preservationist, and conservationist. She cares passionately about literacy, human-animal relationships, philanthropy for vulnerable and rural populations, and agricultural and conservation needs. Tracy currently serves on the boards of The National Trust for Historic Preservation, Hollins University, Centerstone Tennessee (provides mental health and substance abuse support to veterans), The Nature Conservancy (Tennessee Chapter), the Stephen A. Cohen Military Family Clinic, and the Heritage Foundation of Williamson County.
Lauren Vanlandingham Greenberg
New York, New York
Originally from a small farming community in South-Central Kansas, Lauren made her way to Los Angeles, California, after graduating from The University of Kansas where she worked for Linfield Media, a tech start-up. While living in California, she met her husband, Jacob Greenberg, and later moved to Jacob’s native New York City. Since moving East, Lauren has spent the last four years working for 1000heads, Inc., a marketing agency where she is a Senior Account Manager for clients such as Google, Verizon, and Amazon Prime Video. Big Sky, Montana, was the first trip Lauren and Jacob took as a couple and is their favorite destination to frequent -and they were married there in August 2021! Lauren and her husband live in TriBeCa with their rescue dog, Penny.
Patricia de Stacy Harrison
President and Chief Executive Officer, Corporation for Public Broadcasting
District of Columbia
Patricia Harrison is the longest-serving President and CEO of Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). During her tenure, CPB has strengthened public media in three vital areas: digital innovation and acceleration; diversity of content, talent, and service; and dialogue, focused on local community engagement and public-private partnerships.
Prior to joining CPB, Pat served as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs and Acting Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. She is the author of two books on women’s leadership and was recently named to the Arts & Culture Council of America250, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States. She is also a member of the 2022 Honorary Committee for the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film.
In 2019, Pat was appointed to the voting council for the inaugural Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award, which recognizes the achievements of exceptional American women of positive and notable influence on society.
Liliane A. Haub
Philanthropist
Munich, Germany
Liliane is a dedicated philanthropist committed to wildlife protection and driving sustainability initiatives. A native of Switzerland, she also has deep roots in the American West. For many years, she was responsible for the family’s bison ranch in Wyoming, where she focused on restoring the pastures, recreating native grasslands and became excited about forming natural open spaces with public access. This endeavor not only promotes sustainable agriculture but also contributes to biodiversity preservation.
Passionate about sustainability, biodiversity and wildlife conservation, Liliane combines her experience in bison ranching with support for academic institutions, providing support for environmental law and education programs, furthering her mission to protect the environment.
In addition to Liliane’s role as a director of American Prairie, she also serves on the Board of Trustees of Pace University and works closely with the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace which has one of the world’s best environmental law programs. She is also a member of the Leadership Council Steering Committee at the Yale School of the Environment and has been serving on the board of the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming for more than 15 years.
During her career Liliane gained broad financial expertise, which she now puts to use as the Managing Director of the Haub Family Office. She and her husband Christian have four children and divide their time between the United States and Germany.
Richard A. Hay Jr
Healdsburg, California
Richard Hay Jr returned to creative photography after a career as an executive in the technology industry and higher education. In his photography, he explores the dynamics between people and the environments that they create and inhabit. He earned his Ph.D. in sociology and studied photography at Northwestern University where he authored several books and journal articles.
He is currently working on a series of hyper-local explorations of the area where he lives. He is also editing a photobook of road trip photography from West Africa and North America. Hay lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area.
Shelley Hilf
Fall City, Washington and Great Falls, Montana
Shelley is a native Montanan and recently relocated part-time to her hometown to be closer to family. She enjoys sharing all that Montana has to offer with her husband Bill and her two sons Spencer and Nolan.
In 2008, Shelley and her husband Bill co-founded High Five Hope, a non-profit organization helping homeless children experience greater self-esteem, confidence, teamwork, and most importantly, hope through the power of sports.
Shelley has been involved with Medical Teams International for several years and for two years served as co-chair of "Field of Dreams," a premiere fundraising event in Seattle that enables the non-profit to better provide life-saving medical care to people in crisis around the world.
Shelley is currently serving her fourth year on the Museum of Pop Culture Founder’s Award committee for the museum’s signature benefit gala celebrating artists whose noteworthy contributions to music continue to nurture the next generation of creators.
Patrice Innocenti
New York, New York
Peter Kimmelman
New York, New York
A graduate of the Wharton School and Harvard Law School, Mr. Kimmelman has since 1970 specialized in asset allocation, representing the interests of several families as well as two foreign institutions. Among his non-profit affiliations, he has just completed a four-year term as chairman of the Freer/Sackler Galleries (Smithsonian Institution), Washington. He serves as a trustee, officer, and member of the Executive Committee of World Monuments Fund (30 years plus) and as a trustee of American Federation for Aging Research. Mr. and Mrs. Kimmelman share a passion for traveling, spending more than two months a year for the past 40 years in visiting more than 100 countries. Their two children –a daughter, Kweilen, and son, Damian –both live and work in London and continue to join their parents in their world travels.
Joel Kobert
Bridgewater Corners, Vermont
Joel Kobert retired from the New Jersey law firm, Courter, Kobert, and Cohen, having been the founder and managing partner. He served in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department and received the Bronze Star and Vietnam Service Medal as an U.S. Army Captain. He served in two administrations of Governors of New Jersey, and was President of the New Jersey Bar Association. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and member of Who is Who in American lawyers.
Currently, he serves on numerous boards including the Elizabeth Dole Foundation, National Sporting Library and Museum, and RHF Foundation for military families.
Judy Koch
Founder and Board Member, Bring Me a Book Foundation
Retired Owner/President, RSP Manufacturing Corporation
Palo Alto, California
“Taking 15 family members to the prairie in 2018 to celebrate a milestone birthday is my legacy holiday for family – an extraordinary memory for my sons, grandchildren and all. I am grateful to Board members, Susan and Gib Myers for introducing me to American Prairie in 2006 and Nancy Mueller for continuing to steward my passion.”
Judy Koch was the owner of RSP Manufacturing Corporation in Fremont, CA. which provided metal fabrication and electro-mechanical assembly services to high tech companies in Silicon Valley. After 18 years of guiding the company to aggressive growth during her ownership, she sold the company in 1997.
Bring Me A Book began as a RSP employee benefit. Judy, a former junior high school English teacher, provided children’s books with audio recordings to encourage largely immigrant families to read together. In 1997, she founded Bring Me A Book Foundation.
The Philanthropic Innovator Award from the Committee of 200 in 2004, and the 2019 Best Practice Award from the Library of Congress, which inspired Bring Me a Book to become a national organization, mean the most to Judy. Best Practices include helping children learn how to choose books to read from school and public libraries.
Nicole Lederer
Palo Alto, California
Nicole Lederer is Chair and Co-Founder of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), an advocacy and communications platform for business leaders to advance strong environmental policy to grow the economy. Nicole works with E2’s pro-environment business members to establish strategic collaboration between business, military, agriculture, and environmental leaders and engage with legislators at the state and national levels. E2 promotes policies to foster sustainable climate, energy, transportation, water, land use, and agricultural practices and technologies that advance a clean economy. E2 supports and partners exclusively with NRDC, for which Nicole serves as a trustee.
Suzana Lightman
Community Volunteer
Memphis, Tennessee
Suzana is a lifelong Memphian who has led fundraising for organizations including Regional One Health and the Brooks Museum of Art. She served as a board member for the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and helped launch the Opus One Concert Series. Her daughter’s love for elephants led her to fundraise for the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. She also supports the Wolf River Conservancy and the American Prairie. As a biology major she has always loved exploring the natural world.
She devotes her time raising her children while her husband works in commercial real estate. Her family’s love for the outdoors has led them on adventures around the world and especially the American West. She has an interest in photographing the natural landscapes of their travels. Her family's stay at the American Prairie was an experience of a lifetime to be in one of the last remote places in the world.
Jacqueline B. Mars,
Retired Vice President, Mars, Inc.
The Plains, Virginia
Mrs. Mars is the owner of a working farm that specializes in organic farming and equine training and breeding. David and Karen O’Connor, Olympic Gold, Silver and Bronze Medalists in the sport of three-day eventing, have trained and ridden her competition horses at her two locations in The Plains, Virginia, and Ocala, Florida. Mrs. Mars is the retired Vice President of Mars, Inc., where she was responsible for development of new food products and their marketing strategy. She is a strong supporter of conservation groups concerning land use and the environment as well as an advocate and supporter of women’s education and their employment in the business community. Since 2014, Mrs. Mars has served on the board of American Prairie, an organization that is creating the largest nature reserve in the continental United States. A passionate promoter of the arts, she is Chairman Emerita of the Washington National Opera, a member of the board of trustees of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Vice Chairman of the National Sporting Library & Museum, Trustee Emerita of the Miss Hall’s School, and President of board of stewards Orange County Hounds.
George E. Matelich
Managing Director, Kelso & Co.
Larchmont, New York
George became a director of American Prairie in 2008, and has served as Chairman since 2013. He is an advisor to the Investment Committees of the New York Botanical Garden and the University of Puget Sound (UPS). He served for six years on the Stanford GSB Advisory Council (GSB ’82) and was Treasurer of the UPS Board of Trustees, on which he served for 23 years (B.A. Business ’78).
George joined Kelso & Co. in 1985 and is currently a Senior Advisory Partner and Managing Director. He has served as a director of more than 20 former Kelso affiliated companies and as lead director of two public companies, and actively invests and advises to this day.
Born and raised in SeaTac, Washington, George and Susan live in Larchmont, New York. They have owned a ranch in Big Timber, Montana since 1997, where they enjoy fly-fishing and hiking with family and friends.
Susan Matelich
Philanthropist
Larchmont, New York
A philanthropist and volunteer, Susan Matelich recently retired after thirteen years as an active EMT and 10 years as Treasurer of her local Volunteer Ambulance Corps.
Susan has served on the board of American Prairie since 2008, chairing the Safety committee since its inception. She is also a member of the Marketing committee. As a Trustee of the New York Botanical Garden since 2015, Susan serves on the Finance, IDEA, and Horticultural committees. Aiding first-generation college and graduate students has also been a prime focus for Susan and husband, George.
Born in Alberta, Canada, Susan moved to New York, earned a B.S. cum laude from the Stern School of Business and enjoyed a successful 15-year career in fashion and commercial modeling.
Susan and George reside in Larchmont, New York, when they are not fly-fishing with their three adult children and their spouses in Montana or in Boca Grande, Florida.
Lore Harp McGovern
Co-Founder, McGovern Institute of Brain Research at MIT
Hillsborough, California
Ms. Harp McGovern is a serial entrepreneur. She co-founded Vector Graphic Inc., a pioneering PC company in 1976, initiated a successful IPO in 1981 and co-founded Pacific Technology Venture Fund in 1981 in Tokyo and San Francisco. She founded Aplex Corporation and holds two patents, and Good Morning Teacher Publishing, sold in 1990 and 1999 respectively.
Ms. Harp McGovern has been an Angel investor and mentor since 1998, and established in 2000 with her husband, The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and serves as its Chair.
She is a native of Germany and has been awarded the 1983 Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Women’s Business Owners of New York Distinguished Citizen Award, Commonwealth Club of San Francisco Distinguished Alumni Award, Pepperdine University.
Board positions include Computer History Museum, Visiting Committee for Theater Art at MIT, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines at MIT, Council for the Arts at MIT, Springboard, and Visiting Committee for Biological Engineering at MIT.
Karen Petersen Mehra
Active Volunteer
Greenwich, Connecticut
Karen has devoted her energies to preserving America’s last few wild areas, believing land conservation and the preservation of natural habitats are key to providing a meaningful future for our children. Growing up in the wilds of Utah and then living and working in Connecticut and New York have led Karen to American Prairie, which she believes is the most exciting and meaningful land and wildlife conservation project in America today. Along with serving on the American Prairie National Board of Directors, Karen serves on the boards of the Connecticut Land Conservation Council and The Nature Conservancy of Connecticut, and is actively involved with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and The Garden Clubs of America. Previously, Karen worked at the American Museum of Natural History. She enjoys travel, music, gardening, reading, puzzles, moments in nature, and above all, time with her four boys and husband, Sanjeev. Karen received a B.A. in government from Harvard University and an M.A. in anthropology from Columbia University.
Nancy S. Mueller
Retired Founder/President, Nancy's Specialty Foods
Palo Alto, California
Nancy Mueller’s interest in nature and marine preservation is derived from her world-wide experiences. Growing up in Latham, NY, she majored in biology and then chemistry at Russell Sage College in Troy, NY. Upon graduation, she joined her future husband, Glenn Mueller in Palo Alto, CA where he earned a Stanford MBA and she worked for Syntex Corporation in pharmaceutical chemistry.
Two children later and with a venture capital husband, Nancy started her own business, Nancy’s Specialty Foods, parlaying Nancy’s Quiche, both appetizers and entrees, to national distribution through retail and club store venues. She sold the business after 22 years of exciting entrepreneurism in 1999.
Widowed in 1994 and with a desire to dream, she had a Feadship Superyacht built for round the world cruising and SCUBA diving. Ten years later, after touring hundreds of remote islands and countries with friends and family, she sold the vessel and returned to a more normal life.
She serves on the boards of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Waimea Ocean Film Festival, San Francisco Opera as well as American Prairie.
Nancy lives in Palo Alto, California. She continues to travel extensively and spends time in Hawaii.
Susan Myers
Philanthropist
Atherton, California
Susan has been a board member of American Prairie along with her husband Gib since 2002. The opportunity to assemble a huge prairie ecosystem full of wildlife in the 21st century is very compelling and exciting to her. Every time she visits the prairie she enjoys being on the landscape and going to find the bison herd. She and Gib would love to see a herd of 10,000 bison in their lifetime.
Susan has an interest in food and wellness and has been involved in different food affinity groups through the Philanthropy Workshop in San Francisco and also Legacy Ventures in Palo Alto. Susan is a member of Impact Partners, a social interest film fund that invest primarily in documentaries. Impact Partner has supported a number of films at the Sundance Film Festival and elsewhere. She is on the advisory board of the Bay Area Lyme Foundation.
In the past, she has served on an independent school board, Crystal Springs Uplands School and is a member of the founding group of Peninsula Bridge an educational summer experience for underprivileged students. Susan has three children and nine grandchildren. She enjoys golf, travel, bridge, reading, and spending time with her family. Susan holds a bachelor’s degree in German Studies from Stanford University.
Gerry Ohrstrom
New York, New York
Gerald L. Parsky
Chairman, Aurora Capital Group
Rancho Santa Fe, California
Gerald Parsky is the Chairman of Aurora Capital Group, a private investment firm. Previously, Mr. Parsky served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs from 1974-1977. For the next 14 years, Mr. Parsky was affiliated with the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he was a Senior Partner and member of the Executive and Management Committees. In 1991, Mr. Parsky founded Aurora Capital Group. Past activities include: Regent, University of California; Trustee, Princeton University. Present activities include: Trustee, The RAND Corporation; Trustee, George Bush Presidential Library Foundation; Trustee, Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation; Board of Directors, The Irvine Company. Mr. Parsky is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Virginia Law School.
William R. Price III
President, Driva Solutions, LLC
Bellevue, Washington
Bill Price started Driva Solutions in September 2001 to help companies achieve the delicate balance between cost containment and greater customer loyalty; co-founded the 9-country LimeBridge Global Alliance; started and still chairs the 30-company Global Operations Council that “shares best practices and worst experiences”; and is the lead co-author of three books: The Best Service is No Service (2008), Your Customer Rules! (2015), and The Frictionless Organization (2022). Bill served as Amazon’s first Worldwide Vice President of Customer Service and before that was Vice President & General Manager of MCI Call Center Services, COO & CFO with a start-up software company in San Francisco, and a Senior Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company in San Francisco and Stockholm. Bill received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and his MBA from Stanford University, and lives in Bellevue, Washington.
Paula Rantz
Palo Alto, California
Lisa Reneau-Merrigan
Boston, Massachusetts
Lisa Reneau-Merrigan was a professional ballet dancer. She studied at New York City Ballet's prestigious School of American Ballet. She enjoyed a prolific dance career with numerous world class ballet companies, collaborating with renowned choreographers, composers, costume designers, and artists. Lisa’s passion for expression and creativity in ballet and the performing arts has led to a natural progression into acting and producing.
Lisa is producing and playing a lead role in the upcoming TV Pilot Nightbirds, starring Cathy Moriarty, Treat Williams, and Aida Turturro. She is Executive Producer of Don Q, starring Armand Assante, and Co-Producer for the indie thriller, Eugene the Marine starring Nick Nolte. Lisa is also working on the development of a feature film based on a true story set in Montana.
Lisa is a graduate of Fordham University having completed her BA in Art History with a focus on business, film, and photography while simultaneously continuing her professional ballet career.
Courtney Chapin Rouse
Executive Director, The Better Angels Society
District of Columbia
Courtney Chapin is the Executive Director of The Better Angels Society, a Washington DC-based non-profit dedicated to telling America’s stories through American history documentary films. She led the Biden Transition team reviewing arts, humanities and science agencies and served as Chief of Staff at the National Endowment of the Humanities from 2022-2017.
David M. Rubenstein
Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, The Carlyle Group
District of Columbia
David M. Rubenstein is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms. Established in 1987, Carlyle now manages $376 billion from 26 offices around the world.
Mr. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Gallery of Art, the Economic Club of Washington, and the University of Chicago; a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation; a Trustee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Constitution Center, the Brookings Institution, and the World Economic Forum; and a Director of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among other board seats.
Mr. Rubenstein is a leader in the area of Patriotic Philanthropy, having made transformative gifts for the restoration or repair of the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Monticello, Montpelier, Mount Vernon, Arlington House, Iwo Jima Memorial, the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian, the National Archives, the National Zoo, the Library of Congress, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Mr. Rubenstein is an original signer of The Giving Pledge; the host of The David Rubenstein Show and Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein; and the author of The American Story, How to Lead, The American Experiment, and How to Invest.
Greg Ryan
Senior Vice President, Capital Group
Hillsborough, California
Greg Ryan is a Senior Vice President for The Capital Group. He serves as a board member for the Library of Congress Trust based in Washington D.C. as well as for the Crescent Porter Hale Foundation in San Francisco, CA. He received a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Stanford University.
Loretta Stadler
Philanthropist
Franklin Lakes, New Jersey
Loretta Stadler's love of wildlife and wild places has been the motivating force behind her work in conservation. Spending time outdoors has always been vitally important to her and fuels her commitment to support organizations dedicated to healing and protecting the natural world. Loretta is President of the Seadream Foundation, a family foundation focusing on a diverse range of issues including conservation, animal welfare, education, and social justice. She serves on the boards of Wildlife Conservation Society, the International Wildlife Coexistence Network, Lion Guardians, and Pony Power. Loretta graduated from William Paterson University and New York University. She and her husband Chris live in New Jersey and have 3 children.
Shauna Varvel
Greenwich, Connecticut
Shauna Varvel was raised in Utah, spending time in Wyoming and Montana, where she first developed her love for the vast beauty of the American West. Shauna attended BYU as an undergraduate and now serves on the President’s Leadership Council and National Advisory Committee for the university.
Shauna began her professional career in PR for Estee Lauder, in New York and ultimately co-heading PR for its Prescriptives brand in Tokyo. She continued expatriate life in Asia for a total of 16 years. Through her experiences doing charitable work in Indonesia and Cambodia Shauna became passionate about the education of children. Shauna served on the New York and Greenwich boards of Room to Read.
Shauna recently completed the renovation of a farmhouse in Provence, France, set on 65 acres of working farmland, which she owns and operates. She enjoys spending time there with her husband of 31 years and their five children.
Anne Ward
Real Estate Salesperson
Greenwich, Connecticut
Margot Weinstein
Greenwich, Connecticut
As an adventurer, wanderer, and tourist, Margot Weinstein has traveled as far and as frequently as life has allowed. Her love for the outdoors and all things sporty has been a life-long theme, and has contributed to her enthusiasm for the American Prairie. A native Midwesterner, born outside of Chicago, Margot has always felt naturally at home on the prairie. But her appreciation grew even more after cycling across America and seeing the geography of the country unfold beneath her pedals. For Margot, one of the only things that can further sweeten the experience of indulging her wanderlust, is doing it with family and friends. She feels incredibly blessed by her three daughters, son-in law, and wonderful husband, Gary Weinstein, as well as her eclectic extended family who she adores. In addition to her enthusiasm for the American Prairie, Margot enjoys supporting and volunteering for various causes, particularly ones related to autism.