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Pat Ford, Executive Director
Boise
Pat has lived in Idaho from the age of two, but it was four years in New York City, at college, that made him an Idahoan. He has been a full-time conservationist since 1977, save for six years in the 1980s when he wrote about conservation, mostly for High Country News. He helped found the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition in 1992, and has worked for it since. Pat has served on the boards of seven conservation organizations in Idaho, the Northern Rockies, and Northwest, but has been smart enough recently to reduce that to two. He lives in Boise, near his daughters Leigh and Annie, grandson Max and granddaughter Danica, and the mountains named and unnamed of central Idaho. Pat has made salmon the center of his work for 18 years because the creature and its connections to nature and culture instruct him in oh so many things. As Henri Fabre said a century ago about bees, salmon are a magic well: the more you know, the more there is to know.
Dan Drais, Associate Director
Seattle
Dan has worked on conservation and land use issues since moving to Seattle almost 20 years ago. In addition to practicing with private law firms, he has worked with Seattle Audubon, the Seattle Commons, and the Federal Transit Administration. As a volunteer, he has provided legal services to homeless people and served on the board of the Seattle Shakespeare Company. Dan graduated from Dartmouth College and holds a law degree from the University of Virginia.
Nicole Cordan, Policy and Legal Director
Portland
Before joining SOS in 2000, Nicole Cordan was the Acting Regional Director of the National Wildlife Federation's Western Natural Resources Office in Portland, Oregon. Nicole has been working both in the courts and in Congress on endangered species issues and specifically on salmon protection and restoration for more than a decade. Before moving to Portland, Nicole worked in Washington, DC lobbying for the enactment of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, climate change legislation, clean energy policies, and wetlands protection. She now serves on the board of the Oregon League of Conservation Voters. Nicole earned her J.D. from Lewis and Clark Law School and her B.A. at the University of Michigan. She lives in Portland with her partner Jeffrey, her daughter Sophia and her dog, Zoe.
Joseph Bogaard, Outreach Director
Seattle
Joseph has worked for Save Our Wild Salmon since 1996. While much of his early work focused on managing the organization's technology infrastructure, he now works on the Columbia & Snake Rivers Campaign, collaborating with the coalition partners to educate the public and build support in Congress for lasting solutions to restore healthy, self-sustaining, harvestable populations of wild salmon and steelhead in the Columbia Basin. Joseph first got hooked on Northwest salmon recovery while in graduate school where he authored a paper in the mid-1990s exploring the then-relatively recent Snake River salmon and steelhead listings under the Endangered Species Act, and how it might impact the region and its federal lands and dams. Before joining the SOS team, Joseph spent many years teaching and working in the forests and mountains of the West. Today, Joseph lives on Vashon Island with his wonderful wife Amy and two children Liesl and Jeremiah.
Sam Mace, Inland Northwest Project Director
Spokane
Originally from Coos Bay, Oregon, Sam Mace has worked on behalf of forests, fish and rivers for 15 years. She first moved to Eastern Washington in 1994 and joined efforts to restore the Snake River in 1998 as the Salmon and Steelhead Project Coordinator for Washington and Idaho Wildlife Federations based in Spokane. In 2000 Sam moved back to Oregon where she worked for Trout Unlimited. Homesick for snow, desert, the Palouse and the Snake River, Sam returned to Eastern Washington in 2004 as Save Our Wild Salmon's Inland Northwest Project Director. Sam spends her free time hiking, fishing and floating western rivers and looks forward to doing a trip on a free-flowing lower Snake River some day in the future. She has a B.A. in History from Reed College.
Rhett Lawrence, Policy Analyst
Portland
Rhett joined SOS in May 2006 following 5 1/2 years as an Environmental Advocate on clean water and toxics issues with OSPIRG, the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group. Before moving to Oregon in December 2000, Rhett practiced environmental law in Savannah, Georgia, and was Assistant Director of Defenders of Wild Cumberland. Prior to that, he was a Legal Aid lawyer in rural south Georgia for 5 years. A native of South Carolina, Rhett graduated from Emory University in 1990 with a B.A. in English and Philospohy and got his J.D. in 1993 from the University of Georgia School of Law. Rhett and his wife, LeeAnn Friedman, enjoy music, backpacking, and paddling. Rhett intends to have their baby daughter Camille on top of Mt. Hood with him in May 2018 to celebrate his 50th birthday.
Gilly Lyons, Washington DC Representative
Washington DC
Gilly Lyons worked as SOS's Washington, DC Representative since October 2003. Prior to joining the SOS staff, Gilly spent six years as grassroots coordinator for the Oregon Natural Desert Association (an SOS Coalition member) in Bend and Portland, OR, and two years as legislative advocate for the National Public Lands Grazing Campaign in Washington, DC. Despite all those years as a terrestrial activist, she has been enchanted by Columbia Basin salmon since working on the Oregon Clean Stream Initiative in 1996. Gilly, who hails from New York City, holds a masters of science in environmental studies from the University of Montana. She's not much of an angler, but keeps intending to take lessons. Gilly recently moved to Portland and lives with Alan, her second-cousin, twice-removed, and her trusty co-pilot Gracie.
Bobby Hayden, Western Regional Representative
Eugene / Portland
Bobby Hayden hails from the brooks and streams of the Appalachian range in central Pennsylvania and has lived in Oregon for the last ten years. After receiving his degree in Political Science from the University of Oregon in 2003, he has worked for in a variety of industries on behalf of organized labor and the environment. As the Western Regional Representative for the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition, Bobby is impassioned by the opportunities of a restored Snake River for working families throughout the Northwest. He joined the campaign in 2006 following work with the Service Employees International Union, (SEIU Local 503), and America Coming Together.
Kristie Miller, Administrative Manager
Seattle
Following a 20-year career as a Commissioned Office with NOAA, Kristie joined SOS in mid-2007 as Administrative Manager. Most recently posted at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle as the Executive Officer for the Environmental Conservation Division, she previously served as the Associate Director of NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, FL. During her tenure at NOAA, Kristie served as the Executive Officer for various research vessels, both while at sea and in port, with responsibility for providing logistical, administrative and budgetary support to NOAA research facilities. She is now pleased to be putting those skills to use on behalf of environmental and conservation causes.
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