Celeste (she/her) brings an innate sense of storytelling and communications through her experience in documentary film and interactive media productions. Celeste’s contributions to award winning Geller/Goldfine Productions and Storyline Productions instilled in her a deep belief in the power of storytelling to impart meaningful change for people and place. She also brings communications development to her Board leadership of OCAFC. Celeste’s relationship with the Opal Creek Wilderness is personal. She was extremely lucky to grow up with extensive time in Jawbone Flats and the Opal Creek area as a child and teen before it became protected wilderness. Her passion and commitment today is to ensure that others will someday experience the profound gifts of the Opal Creek Wilderness. Committees: Development & Communications, Programs & Equity

Holley (she/her) and her family visited Opal Creek often for more than 13 years and she is deeply committed to the Opal Creek wilderness and OCAFC’s mission. Holley is passionate about bringing the ideals of equity and inclusion to OCAFC’s programs and wilderness experiences, and she’s excited to be involved with OCAFC during this time of dynamic change and possibility. Her love of the outdoors began in Wyoming and Idaho where she spent her youth skiing, hiking, and camping that continue today along with bird watching and frustrated-gardening. As a serial entrepreneur, Holley brings passionate experience to organizing and advocating for LGBTQIA communities and small business. Committees: Development & Communications, Programs & Equity (Chair)

Spending time wandering Oregon’s wide open spaces of Eastern Oregon, and fly fishing forested streams, Clint (he/him) was transformed in his childhood. Those transformative experiences now provide Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center with the kind of commitment to a cause needed for the years ahead as OCAFC undergoes its own unique kind of transformation. Clint’s professional affiliation with Belltown Power to make renewable energy the dominant energy source for rural communities is also informing how OCAFC plans for utilizing green power in the coming years and decades. Committee: Facilities

Rich (he/him) spent his life and career exploring the intersection of our built environment and nature. His knowledge and experience with off-grid community living gave him time to recharge, reconnect, and return to nature after working in the fast-paced worlds of real estate development, and product management at Intel and Adidas. Rich introduced his family and friends to Jawbone Flats and the Opal Creek Wilderness where his kids have grown and learned through amazing backpacking expeditions, swimming, hiking and exploring everything that nature has to teach. He’s honored to be part of an organization so focused on teaching the next generation about our natural world. Committees: Finance (Chair), Facilities

Dan (he/him) has deep ties to Oregon’s environmental public-sector through leadership roles that enhance OCAFC’s watershed information gathering and assessment. Dan lends his technological experience to help OCAFC better understand the technical aspects of environmental systems and mapping that apply to Opal Creek’s future. His focus on water-related information management, as well as success in developing person-centered workplace cultures of trust and equity uplift OCAFC’s environmental and cultural capacity to serve. He brings professional experience through public agency contributions in both Washington and Minnesota, and today he serves as the Technical Services Group Manager for the City of Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services. Dan’s love of Opal Creek, and his personal mission to guide our next generation of future leaders drives his commitment to OCAFC as a board and finance committee member. Committee: Finance

Adam’s first experience at Opal Creek more than 20 years ago was snowshoeing to Cedar Flats as a field ecology student in college. In the following seven years he served our organization as volunteer, outdoor education instructor, and Jawbone Flats Facilities Director. There is nowhere else in the world where Adam would rather be than at Opal Creek. He has witnessed firsthand the powerful effect of place in the hearts and minds of everyone who experiences the transformative nature of Opal Creek. He is intimately tied to the land, the organization, and the mission. As an Opal Creek alumnus, Adam has institutional knowledge of the site, the programs and the people that have made Opal Creek what it is today, and he is excited to be an integral part of the organization’s future. Adam’s passions for sustainability, education, and adventure continue to drive other interests he aquired while at Jawbone Flats like woodworking and music. Adam is a father, residential contractor and feels most at home when in nature. Committee: Facilities (Chair)

Once a farm kid in Massachusetts, Arlo (he/him) has been wandering the woods in Oregon for the last 20 years. The Opal Creek Wilderness has always been a major source of inspiration for the stories he’s crafted as a poet, translator, professor, Fulbright scholar, journalist, copywriter and creative director. A veteran of not only travel writing but also the specialized world of luxury immersive travel, Arlo is helping Opal Creek honor and nourish its community members, recruit new bands of outdoor enthusiasts and publicize its growth and regeneration after the Beachie Fire. He fervently believes that connecting humans with nature is an essential step in building symbiotic, healthy communities and that nature’s classroom can nudge us toward collaboration and transformation. In addition to his work in the outdoor and travel space, Arlo is a legally certified psilocybin facilitator in the state of Oregon. Committees: Development & Communications, Programs & Equity

Amanda grew up in the wilds of Oregon hiking and camping with her family and was lucky enough to spend time in Opal Creek as a child and has raised her own kids in the Opal Creek Wilderness hiking, swimming, and being a part of the land together. She has spent many hours volunteering at the OCAFC for bioblitz weekends, work weekends, and environmental cleanup at Jawbone Flats post fire making Opal Creek and Jawbone Flats an integral part of her life. Amanda brings her passion for conservation and deep land connection, as well as her interest in fungi, amphibian, and lichen identification, and exploring the forests understory. She brings Oregon State University connections, as she is tied to the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation sciences Department in an administrative capacity. She is dedicated to educating the next generations about forest ecology and conservation, now more than ever.  Committees: Development & Communications, Programs & Equity, Facilities