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TREC Staff

TREC staff are experts in the fundraising, organizational development and leadership fields, giving environmentalists access to top-notch consultants, coaches and trainers. TREC’s administrative office is in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with staff located throughout western North America. The trainers and consultants in our network come from all over the U.S. and Canada. Please contact any TREC staff member for more information on how we can help you meet your mission and manage change.



Santa Fe, NM  Main Office
Phone: 505.986.8400, Fax: 505.986.8403
600 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501
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Dyan Oldenburg, Executive Director
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Phone: 505.986.8400

Jeff DeBonis, Senior Associate
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Phone: 541.387.2651

Kevin Johnson, Senior Associate
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Judy Mosher, Administrator
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Phone: 505.986.8400

Ellen Joy Roth, Programs/Evaluation Coordinator
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Phone: 505.986.8400

David Thomson, Senior Associate
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Phone: 604.987.3667

Megan Seibel, Director of Finance and Senior Associate for Resource Development
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Phone: 303.537.3260

Kathy Turner, Senior Associate
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Phone: 503.230.4870

Nancy Adess, TREC Editor in Chief
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Cheri Ryan, Website Designer
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TREC Staff Biographies

 
 
Jeff DeBonis, Senior Associate, has led a distinguished career in forestry, environmentalism and employee activism. He worked on national and international government forestry projects in the Peace Corps, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Agency for International Development. In 1989 he founded and was the Director of the Association of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics (AFSEEE), a group of dissident, environmental activist agency employees within the Forest Service. In 1992 he founded and directed Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), an expanded national organization of public employees of numerous environmental agencies that work to ensure the integrity and public accountability of their agencies.  Top
 
Kevin Johnson has more than 27 years experience working with public service organizations. His experience includes a variety of roles including college Vice President, Director of Development for a national environmental organization, Acting Executive Director for a large children’s service organization, Endowment Director, and Planned Giving Officer for a national conservation organization. Since 1998 he has helped start or build more than 70 major and estate gifts programs. He has earned the designation of Certified Specialist in Planned Giving from the Institute of Philanthropic Studies, California State University. Top
 
 
Judy Mosher, TREC’s Administrator, brings over 15 years of management, leadership, and teaching experience from higher education as well as from for profit and not for profit health clinics. She has a deep concern for environmental issues especially land conservation, species protection, and sustainability. Judy has an MA in Counseling and a Ph.D. in Biomechanics. When she is not working for TREC she can be found hiking the arroyos near Santa Fe with her golden retriever, Jessie.
 
Dyan Oldenburg founded Training Resources for the Environmental Community (TREC) in 1997. As executive director, she assists in developing and directing TREC’s programs and provides services to TREC clients. She has worked on numerous legislative, electoral and issue campaigns since 1979. Dyan ably assists environmental nonprofits in growing their leaders, boards and organizations. Her love of the wild people and the wild places and critters that they’ve dedicated their lives to saving is what keeps her going. She is dedicated to helping groups meet their missions and manage change. Her straw bale, solar house at the end of the road is her refuge. She can often be seen riding one of her horses in the back country of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Northern New Mexico with her dog Bella running along side her. She is a graduate of Antioch College with a degree in political science, management and community service.
 
Ellen Joy Roth, Programs/Evaluation Coordinator, comes to TREC with experience in event planning, design, and education research. Before moving to Santa Fe, she spent the past eight years as a Senior Research Associate at CAPSI/Caltech studying science education in the public schools. In addition, Ellen has had extensive experience in educational assessment and program evaluation. She lives near Lamy, New Mexico, overlooking the beautiful Galisteo Basin.
 
Megan Seibel, Director of Finance and Senior Associate for Resource Development, manages TREC’s finances and provides specialized help to TREC clients in the areas of fiscal management and resource development. Megan has over 20 years of experience working with grassroots non-profit organizations. Megan began her non-profit career as a successful fundraiser and Executive Director for PIRGs (Public Interest Research Groups) in Colorado and Illinois. Then she brought her talents to the national management of the PIRGs where she oversaw fundraising databases and initiated a successful direct mail program. Most recently, Megan managed the budget and finances for the national PIRG network. 
 
David Thomson,  Senior Associate, has 20 years experience working as a leader, trainer, and consultant in both the private and public sector. His specialties include leadership development, governance, coaching, strategic planning, change management and team development. David spent eight years working with Outward Bound, where he was in a senior management role. David works with Organizational Effectiveness Program clients, Leadership Development Program clients and provides Customized Training and Consulting services on a range of topics, including strategic planning and board development. David is the National Board Past-President of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society.
 
Kathy Turner, Senior Associate, brings her twenty years of experience in community organizing and capacity building to a variety of TREC’s programs and services. She has a history of working with non-profit organizations as a board member, organizer, consultant, and executive director. She serves on the faculty of TREC’s Senior Leadership Program. She is the program director of the STEP (Stepping up to Leadership) series, designed for up-and-coming leaders in the conservation movement. As a member of TREC’s coaching team and organizational effectiveness program she coaches leaders in the western US and Canada. She is currently developing TREC's community engagement program.
 
Nancy Adess, TREC Editor in Chief, has worked as an educator, fundraiser, executive director, and publications editor with various nonprofit organizations. Among them are Planned Parenthood, the Coalition for the Medical Rights of Women/DES Action, Marin Agricultural Land Trust, and The Nature Conservancy. Nancy is the editor of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal and Kim Klein’s Chardon Press series of Jossey-Bass Publishers.
 
Cheri Ryan, Website Designer, has designed and developed websites and conducted website assessments for nonprofit organizations since 1997. Cheri has worked with Facing the Future, NPower, National CASA, Group Health, Housing Resources Group and WildEarth Guardians.
 

 

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