Rick Chavolla – Trustee, Consultant, Board Chair for the AICH
Dan Collins – President, Trustee, Professor, Arizona State University
Rio Coyotl – Trustee, Certified Public Accountant, Fungo Atomico
Karinjo Devore – Trustee, Founding Board Member & President of AIMF
Sara Friedberg – Trustee, Lodging Coordinator for Telluride Science Research Center
Art Goodtimes – Trustee – San Miguel County Commissioner, Poet
Evan Iverson – Trustee, Mathematician/Scientist
Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk – Trustee, Education Curator, Former Co-Chair BEITC.
Pamela Lifton-Zoline – Founder, Trustee, Vice President, Author, Artist
John Lifton-Zoline – Emeritus Trustee, Architect, Planner
Jos Lifton-Zoline – Trustee, San Miguel County Planning Commission
Laurie Lundquist – Trustee, Environmental Artist
Vicki Phelps – Trustee, Secretary – Science Educator, Director, WEP
Sascha Stipsits – Trustee, Writer, Filmmaker, Journalist






Former Institute president and long-time trustee, Art directed the Telluride Mushroom Festival for its first 25 years and helped spearhead the founding of three Institute initiatives: the Talking Gourds poetry program, the Ute Reconciliation program; and the Prospect Basin Fens Project.
Former poetry editor for Twin Peaks, Earth First! Journal, Wild Earth, and the Mountain Gazette, he currently serves as poetry editor for Fungi magazine and the on-line anthology Sage Green Journal. He was appointed as the first Western Slope Poet Laureate (2011-12). His latest poetry books are Dancing on Edge: the McRedeye Poems (Lithic Press, Fruita, 2019), Looking South to Lone Cone (Western Eye Press, Sedona, 2013) and As If the World Really Mattered (La Alameda Press, Albuquerque, 2007). He performs his poetry widely in the region.


Regina has traveled extensively throughout the country presenting and sharing Ute culture through song, dance and numerous speeches. In October of 2013 she was elected to serve in leadership as a member of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Council. She is a former member of the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs and the Bears Ears Inter-tribal Coalition, among many other committees and boards.
Regina strongly believes that the inner core of healing comes from the knowledge of our land and elders. Currently she is serving as the Education Director for the Ute Indian Museum in Montrose, Colorado. She is honored to continue to protect, preserve and serve through education, creating a better understanding of our land and culture — a great foundation for a better tomorrow.






ADVISORY
BOARD
Sally Davis – Advisory Board, Artist
Elizabeth Gick – Advisory Board, Landscape Planner
Alessandra Jacobson – Advisory Board, Founder of Bridal Veil Living Classroom
Amanda Kotlyar – Advisory Board
Audrey Marnoy – Advisory Board, Business Consultant
Meghann McCormick – Advisory Board, Artist, Business Consultant
Helen Rowe – Advisory Board, Environmental Scientist
Peter Waldor – Advisory Board, Treasurer, Poet, Insurance Executive