John's passion for the outdoors has brought him to exotic locales around the globe. John's educational career entailed lives in two classically different American cities, Washington DC and Las Vegas. John is often sighted with the greatest desert dog known to any man, Isabelle. His Nissan pickup has also covered more miles in Nevada than any truck we can think of. Sadly though it has recently become something of a driveway ornament.

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A small town upbringing has not stopped Kristie from living in several states on both coasts and walking across the Bosporus in Turkey. Her academic background is in geography/geology, which explains her wanderlust, and her passion for maps and collecting rocks for landscaping projects at home. She is fond of refrigerator magnets and presumably the forces of magnetism, and dreams of sailing throughout the Caribbean. When not working you'll find her on the trail or in the garden.

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Raised in Texas and adverse to being labeled a "lab rat," John comes to NWP from the ivory halls of UNR where he recently completed his Ph.D in conservation biology. John brings a wide variety of skills to the Conservation Director position, most notably stability and home brewing (We have yet to taste his product here at HQ, but he talks a good game). Married for over ten years with two kids John is the official family man of the group, but he looks forward to the solitary adventures of fieldwork and returning to the unspoken joys of the desert in Nevada.

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Cameron has a strong background in volunteerism, most recently in AmeriCorps. He studied the Classics in college and has traveled extensively, with trips to Africa and as a lead on trips into the heart of the Adirondacks. Cameron enjoys all things outdoors, with special attention paid to the water. He has concerns about the "driest state in the Union" thing, but we assured him that there is often water in a G&T.

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Mackenzie was born and raised in Yerington, Nevada and has lived around the globe, with time abroad in Europe and Asia. Her formal education was at the University of Oregon where her energies focused on art and management. Her resume includes work with the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Mackenzie has walked the Thames in England and knows a lot about Lincoln Towncars. She loves travel, yoga, art, and honky-tonk (which is not a town in Malaysia or Nevada).

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Nancy moved to the small town of Mesquite over thirteen years ago and has watched this sleepy town with views of the Virgin River, and the Virgin Mountains turn into a bustling small city on the edge of some great unprotected wilderness. Nancy and her dog stormy love to explore the nooks and crannies of places like the Mormon Mountains Wilderness and the unprotected beauty of the Mud Hills (part of our Billy Goat Peak proposed wilderness). Nancy is always smiling and can be found in the garden or with her granddaughters, and has been bold enough to join us as a volunteer for two of our DC lobby tours. Nancy will focus much of her efforts on protecting the incredibly beautiful and incredibly threatened Gold Butte region, south of Mesquite.

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Nick comes to Nevada from the frozen lakes of the upper Midwest where he was raised outside of Chicago and educated in Wisconsin at Northland College where he developed a passion for wilderness as well as contra dancing.  After summers doing trail work in the Boundary Waters and Alaska he was initially skeptical of living in the Mojave Desert, but he has developed a fondness to Joshua Trees, the dry desert heat, and places like the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.

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Denise comes to the NWP family from the yoga mat. She has been teaching yoga students for 10 years to stretch their bodies and minds. Denise also brings over 23 years of bookkeeping experience to our work. She has been a Nevadan since 1988 and along with her husband and kids enjoys the camping and hiking opportunities that wilderness and Nevada offer. She helps to round out the holistic side of our staff with her fun sense of adventure, gardening and cooking skills as well as urdvadanurasana (upward facing bow pose).

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