Liliane A. Haub, National Jury Chair
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.
Jay Abbe
Retired President/COO, JDS Uniphase
Healdsburg, California
Jay resides on his ranch and vineyards outside of Healdsburg, California, 70 miles north of San Francisco, where he grows grapes and produces 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 Master of Business Administration 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 bachelor’s degree 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.
John Banovich
Artist - Founder, Banovich Wildscapes Foundation & Banovich Fine Art - President of Wildscapes Travel
Carnation, Washington
As a native Montanan, John attended the University of Montana before earning a graphic design degree from the Art Institute in Seattle, Washington, in 1987. In 2000, John founded Banovich Fine Art in Livingston, Montana. Subsequently, in 2012, opened Studio West in Carnation, Washington.
In 2004, John founded the Wildscapes Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)3. John’s extensive 30 years of travels revealed his aspiration to share his love for Africa, culminating in the inception of Banovich Wildscapes Travel in 2018 aimed at supporting keystone wildlife landscapes for critical conservation efforts. John is the executive producer of two award-winning documentaries, “The Edge of Existence” and “The Last Horns of Africa”.
In 2022, John became a member of the American Prairie board. Notable, he previously served on the boards of the Society of Animal Artists and the Craighead Institute. He is also a member of the Shikar Safari Club, holds a life membership with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, and has been a distinguished member of the Society of Animal Artists since 1995. His accomplishments include receiving the CJ McElroy Award from Safari Club International and being nominated in 2023 for the Beretta Conservation Leadership Award. He has also acted as an Advisory Board Member for the Safari Club International Foundation. John established the “Award for Conservation Excellence – ACE” in 2017 and launched the Lion P.R.I.D.E. Initiative in 2007. He is recognized as an NBC “Cause Celebrity”.
Landon Butler
Retired
Upperville, Virginia
Landon Butler was Deputy Chief of Staff in the Carter Administration from 1977-1981. In that capacity, he facilitated communication across a broad array of Administration-wide task forces that were formed to support Carter-Mondale initiatives, and he had lead roles in the Panama Canal and SALT II ratification efforts.
In 1981, he co-founded the Multi-Employer Property Trust, a real estate commingled fund serving US, Canadian, and European pension plans. He was also a founder of the first private sector venture capital in Eastern Europe following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
He has many non-profit interests, and served for ten years as Board Chair of Shakespeare Theatre Company, a Tony Award-winning regional theatre company in Washington, DC. Now retired, he and his wife, Carol, divide their time between Washington and their farm in northern Virginia.
He is a graduate of Washington & Lee University and Harvard Business School, and served as an officer in the US Marine Corps.
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 Bachelor of Science and his Master of Science from Carnegie Mellon University and currently serves as a Trustee for Carnegie Mellon.
Sasha Galantic
Rye, New York
Sasha Galantic is a Swiss-American national who has divided her career between Europe and the United States, spanning management consulting, Human Resources and Fashion retail in addition to her work in the non-profit sector.
She began her career with Mercer Consulting with responsibility for multi-national clients throughout Europe. She later moved to Fashion in the United States, first as VP of Human Resources for Elie Tahari and later as Chief of Retail and Merchandising. Most recently she has done strategy consulting for top United States based fashion brands.
On the non-profit side, she has served on the Board of the Greenwich YWCA, has worked with Belles Aventures for underprivileged children in Switzerland, has been a contributor to the Population Development Association in Thailand, focusing on rural development and is a volunteer at local New York philanthropic organizations.
She lives in Rye, New York, with her husband and two teenage children.
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 a member of the Board of Directors of The Ellis Island Honors Society.
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.
Richard A. Hay Jr.
Photographer
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 doctorate degree 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.
Stewart Koch
Founding Member/General Partner, Java Bright Capital/JMS Limited
Woodside, California
Suzana Malik 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, volunteer, and proud new grandmother, Susan recently retired after thirteen years as an active EMT and ten years as Treasurer of her local Volunteer Ambulance Corps.
Susan has served on the board of American Prairie since 2008. She has chaired the Safety Committee since its inception and is also a member of the Marketing Committee. A Trustee of the New York Botanical Garden since 2015, Susan now serves on the Executive Committee as Secretary, and on the Finance, IDEA, and Horticultural Committees. Aiding first-generation college and graduate students has also been a prime focus.
Born in Alberta, Canada, Susan moved to New York, worked as a fashion and commercial model, and earned a Bachelor of Science cum laude from the Stern School of Business.
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.
Cappy McGarr
President, MCM Interests
Dallas, Texas
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 Bachelor of Arts in government from Harvard University and a Master of Arts 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 worldwide experiences. Growing up in Latham, New York, she majored in biology and then chemistry at Russell Sage College in Troy, New York. Upon graduation, she joined her future husband, Glenn Mueller in Palo Alto, California, where he earned a Stanford Master of Business Administration 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.
Nancy serves on the American Prairie National Board of Directors lives in Palo Alto, California, continues to travel extensively, and enjoys spending 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.
Sherry Nemmers
New York, New York
Sherry served as Executive Vice President, Global Creative Director for NYC-based global ad agencies Publicis, Saatchi, and D’Arcy, beginning as a writer for Dancer Fitzgerald Sample. Partnering with world leaders such as Mars, Procter & Gamble, General Mills, and Toyota, Sherry led by example how brands speak to women. She is known for her lyrical storytelling, creating breakout campaigns on innovative Mars brands, Ad Council crime prevention, and P&G Charmin Bears. Sherry is known for creating the first Super Bowl spot for P&G - also the first created by a woman. Featured on Dateline and CBS Sunday Morning, she has garnered numerous awards. Jeff Koons placed her work in the Whitney Museum. An active alum, Sherry attended Dartmouth College, Université de Strasbourg, graduated from Vassar College, and flirted with Columbia Journalism. She continues to author historical pieces. A fierce protector of wildlands, lakes, and wildlife, Sherry serves on boards such as Adirondack Council, Art Center, and Blue Mountain Lake Association. Sherry summers on Blue Mountain Lake, and volunteers for her ambulance/fire corps. Passionate about opera, writing, hiking, and saving animals, Sherry loves big cats and small prairie dogs
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 Master of Business Administration from Stanford University, and lives in Bellevue, Washington.
Paula Rantz
Palo Alto, California
Paula Rantz, a former inter-dealer broker in the municipal bond market on Wall Street, has lived in London, New York City, and currently resides in Palo Alto. Through her charitable foundation she has supported a variety of causes including accessibility to a quality education for underserved populations, preservation of vote integrity, independent investigative journalism, land conservation, and research into harmful chemicals, cancer, and Lyme disease. She also has served on the board of KIPP Charter Schools of Northern California. Paula collects diaries of the pioneers and histories of the trappers and explorers of the American West.
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 Bachelor of Arts in art history with a focus on business, film, and photography while simultaneously continuing her professional ballet career.
Laura Turner Seydel
Chair of Captain Planet Foundation and Director of Turner Foundation
Atlanta, Georgia
Laura Turner Seydel is chairperson of the Captain Planet Foundation which has worked collaboratively worldwide for over 30 years to engage and empower young people to be problem solvers for the planet. She is a passionate board member of the Children & Nature Network, whose mission it is that all children grow up realizing the many benefits that exposure to nature provides.
Laura is the cofounder of the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper and cofounder and board chair for Mothers and Others for Clean Air which works to improve air quality for at-risk populations, especially children in the Southeast. She serves on the board of Project Drawdown which is the most comprehensive plan to reverse global warming by enlisting 71 researchers from 22 countries to map, model, and measure the top 100 scalable solutions.
Additional organizations she serves include the Turner Foundation, the Turner Endangered Species Fund, Nuclear Threat Initiative, United Nations Foundation, Environmental Working Group, Waterkeeper Alliance, League of Conservation Voters Education Fund and is a Patron of Nature for the International Union of the Conservation of Nature.
Mon Siriwatwechakul
Atherton, California
Mon Siriwatwechakul is the former economic policy advisor to the Finance Minister of Thailand. In this role, Mon oversaw programs to improve the economic condition of working-class families.
Mon helped design and launch a new social security program to cover 24 million workers previously ineligible for coverage. She also developed affordable loan programs for 3 million under-banked households and restructured the utility rate structure to lower the economic burden for 9 million low-income households.
Prior to her work in the Finance Ministry, Mon was a retail executive for the Groupe Casino Subsidiary, an equity research analyst for Credit Suisse, and a management consultant for McKinsey & Co., all in Bangkok, Thailand. Mon began her career as a semiconductor engineer in California.
Mon earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Chulalongkorn University, a master’s in chemical engineering from Caltech and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. Mon currently serves on the Dean’s Cabinet for the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).
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.