{Vacant} – Executive Director
Dr. Dan Collins – President
Dr. Evan Iverson – Director of Science and Research
{Vacant} – Secretary
Kris Holstrom – Treasurer
Program Directors
Dr. Dan Collins – Sustainable Communities and Place-Based Eduction (SCAPE)
Dr. Evan Iverson – Telluride Environmental Science and Engineering Laboratory (TESEL)
Dr. Evan Iverson – Prospect Basin Fens Research
Lia Cristadoro – Watershed Education Program
Pam Lifton-Zoline – Clute Science Fiction Library
Joanna Spindler – Talking Gourds
Masters in Environmental Management Telluride Cohort (MEM Telluride)
Dr. Evan Iverson – Western Colorado University Liaison
Kris Holstrom – Student Community Coordinator
Telluride Mushroom Festival
Laurie Lundquist – Mushroom Committee Chair
Dr. Britt Bunyard – Programming Director
Matt Guertin – Co-Operations Manager
Teal Stetson-Lee – Co-Operations Manager

dan@tellurideinstitute.org

Evan holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of New Mexico, and MS and PhD degrees in Applied Mathematics, with a focus on computer science and physics, from the University of Arizona. He was at the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 13 years where he conducted research in computational physics, computer science, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, complex systems, and artificial neural networks. In 1990 he joined Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) where he led R&D in remote sensing, computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and digital signal processing. In 1998 he became a Vice President and served as the Manager of SAIC’s Imagery Technology and Systems Division from 1998 to 2006. This was followed by a year serving as Chief Scientist of SAIC’s Reconnaissance and Surveillance Operation. In 2007 he joined Rincon Research Corporation and served as Chief Scientist and Program Manager until transitioning to Consulting Employee and moving to Telluride.
evan@tellurideinstitute.org

Institute as its Sustainability Director. Kris has a B.S. in Forest Management from Utah State University and an M.S. in Horticulture from Virginia Tech. She has a diverse background having held many different positions in the region from cleaning houses to operating a small saw mill. She co-founded and is Board President for SWIRL – the Southwest Institute for Resilience – a non-profit that supports community gardens, greenhouses and the Telluride Farmers Market. Kris has spent over three decades educating the public and youth about sustainability issues including renewable energy, food security, waste reduction and “out of the box” systems thinking to contribute to regional solutions to current challenges.

Lia@tellurideinstitute.org



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