Sweet Water Trust

Sweet Water Trust is sponsored by Sweet Water Trust. Supports environmental preservation through land protection programs, including water conservation efforts, by providing grants for land acquisition.

Sweet Water Fund - Northeast Wilderness Trust Northeast Wilderness Trust Projects In January 2022 the Sweet Water Trust—a philanthropic organization dedicated to wilderness conservation—became the Sweet Water Fund, a donor-advised endowment fund that will continue funding wildlands protection in the Northern Appalachians. Northeast Wilderness Trust is honored to be the recipient of Sweet Water Fund’s annual giving and legacy.

In 2023 alone, the Fund will generate a million dollars for the Wilderness Trust’s land protection projects. Sweet Water Trust was influential in Northeast Wilderness Trust’s founding in 2002 and has been an essential partner in the conservation of over 90% of the land the Wilderness Trust safeguards. Every so often, gifts are made to a non-profit that fundamentally change the trajectory of that organization’s work.

This is one of them. Through the Sweet Water Fund, Northeast Wilderness Trust will receive annual grants to further wildlands protection. The Wilderness Trust is thrilled to carry forward the legacy of Sweet Water Trust.

Sweet Water Trust’s Legacy Over three decades, Sweet Water Trust made more than 650 grants in support of forever-wild land protection, conserving more than 310,000 acres of wild forests, rivers, and wetlands across the Northern Appalachians—primarily in northern New England, the Adirondacks, and eastern Canada. To protect these critical places, Sweet Water Trust worked with nearly 90 partners.

Sweet Water Trust was an early champion of the “Belt and Suspenders” conservation strategy, whereby a property’s non-profit or government owner (the “belt”) commits to durable conservation by adding a second layer of protection to the land via a perpetual forever-wild conservation easement (the “suspenders”), held by a separate qualified entity.

The Wilderness Trust employs this strategy because when it comes to wilderness, permanence is non-negotiable.

NEWT Projects in Partnership with Sweet Water Trust During its three decades of wildlands philanthropy, Sweet Water Trust played an instrumental role in protecting these forever-wild lands safeguarded by Northeast Wilderness Trust: Alder Stream Wilderness Preserve Frenchman Bay Community Forest Grafton Forest Wilderness Preserve Redington Wilderness Sanctuary Vickie Bunnell Preserve Easement Wapack Wilderness Easement Eagle Mountain Wilderness Preserve Woodbury Mountain Wilderness Preserve Learn more about these special places… Woodbury Mountain Wilderness Preserve Muddy Pond Wilderness Preserve Eagle Mountain Wilderness Preserve Binney Hill Wilderness Preserve Alder Stream Wilderness Preserve Other Conservation Projects Sweet Water Trust has an extensive legacy of wilderness conservation with organizations other than Northeast Wilderness Trust.

Click to read the New 2025 Annual Report. Ann Wilson is the Engagement and Events Coordinator for Northeast Wilderness Trust, supporting the mission to conserve forever-wild landscapes across the Northeastern United States through event coordination, community engagement, and stewardship initiatives.

She brings a diverse background that includes experience as a legal assistant in business law, a Montessori educator, and has worked within the nonprofit sector, with a focus on stewardship, annual giving campaigns, fundraising, and community outreach programs. Wilson is passionate about creating meaningful experiences that foster connection and strengthen nonprofit communities.

In her free time, she enjoys being outdoors, gardening, cooking, and spending time with her family and her dog, Campbell. David Foster is Director Emeritus of the Harvard Forest, President Emeritus of the Highstead Foundation, and a founding member of Wildlands, Woodlands, Farmlands and Communities. His research focuses on interpreting and conserving landscapes through an understanding of the linked histories and people and nature.

Relevant recent publications include A Meeting of Land and Sea. The Nature and Future of Martha’s Vineyard and Wildlands in New England. Past, Present and Future.

David lives on Martha’s Vineyard with his wife Marianne. Tucker is director of language research at AdaCore. Tucker’s specialty is programming language design, focused on designing and implementing languages for long-lived applications where safety, security, and reliability are critical.

Tucker has been the lead designer of the Ada programming language for the past thirty-five years and has more recently designed a new parallel programming language, ParaSail, to simplify the programming of highly parallel computers. Tucker is passionate about the environment, both the natural one we must preserve, and the hopefully humane one we create for ourselves and our communities.

Tucker is a skier and an active masters track athlete, being part of a world-record-setting men’s 65+ 4x400m relay team. Tucker resides in Lexington, MA, and in the summers, on Martha’s Vineyard, with his wife Phyllis Yale. They have two grown daughters, and three growing grandsons.

Joan has worked in the land trust world for the last fifteen years, most recently as Director of Land Conservation at Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust in Damariscotta, Maine, and prior to that at Medomak Valley Land Trust in Waldoboro, Maine. She volunteered for land trusts and conservation organizations for many years before that.

With degrees from Colby College and Boston University, Joan worked in the high tech world for a number of years before deciding to do something more meaningful. Returning to Maine after a decade in Boulder, Colorado, Joan switched careers and fully immersed herself in the land trust world, taking on roles in both stewardship and land conservation. Of course, in a small land trust, She did a little bit of everything!

Joan is also certified as a Maine Master Naturalist, and loves leading hikes to introduce people to the natural world. Her happy place is on a mountaintop, or along a mountain stream, surrounded by wildflowers. Joan also loves to travel, hike, cross-county ski and snowshoe, and foster horses and dogs.

Tim grew up with unfettered access to nature on the edge of a mill town that was famous for snuff manufacturing. The house he called home was built in the 1600s and full of hand-worn hemlock and oak from the surrounding forest. King pine floorboards of exceptional width and a bat-filled barn swim in his memory growing up along the banks of the Parker River.

Tim was a C student, only and until he discovered you could spend your time studying geomorphology, atmospheric science and ecology. From that time Tim has pursued a life where protecting and restoring nature was usually somewhere close by. Today he loves the sound of hermit thrushes and the smell of linden trees.

Mark Pener is Director of Project Scheduling at Skanska USA Building in Boston, where he helps plan complex construction projects across New England. He has combined a career in the built environment with a lifelong passion for the natural world that began at Pond Mountain Trust, a conservation area his family has managed for more than 50 years in Kent, Connecticut.

There, he developed an enduring appreciation for the land through trail work, stonewall repair, and countless days exploring the woods. He serves on the Board of Pond Mountain Trust and lives with his family in Brookline, Massachusetts. Together they find deep meaning in time spent outdoors, from hiking remote peaks to quietly observing the rhythms of nature across the Northeast.

Alix has worked in collaborative land conservation, communications and related fields for more than thirty years. However, she took a somewhat circuitous route in getting there – learning to control avalanches in Utah, working on a ranch in Wyoming and at a salmon cannery in Alaska during the 1970s.

In the early 1980s, she worked in public relations, political organizing, and as a freelance photojournalist – acquiring skills which would come in handy down the road. She found her niche at the Natural Lands Trust, a regional organization headquartered near Philadelphia, in the late 1980s. In the 1990s she was founding executive director of Portland Trails, the urban, trails-oriented land trust in Portland, Maine.

At the same time, she chaired the Mountain Division Alliance, which promoted the vision for a 50-mile rail-with-trail, now in the works. Her first book, Groundswell: Stories of Saving Places, Finding Community, was published in 2005 by the Trust for Public Land. Co-sponsors included the National Park Service Rivers & Trails Program, The Conservation Fund and The Nature Conservancy.

She lives on a farm in Pownal, Maine, and is a board member of Maine Coast Heritage Trust and the Forest Society of Maine, and an advisory board member of QLF/Atlantic Center for the Environment, among others. She has served as staff, board member, volunteer and consultant for nonprofits of all sizes, and on numerous international exchanges.

She co-created the Irish ~ US Land Use & Leadership Network, and serves as project director for the Biddeford RiverWalk Coalition in southern Maine. Alix is currently raising funds and support for a pioneering book of community stories from the Middle East, where she has done extensive travel and interviewing in recent years.

During this time she has learned that passion and a touch of madness are prerequisites for launching new endeavors. Christopher (Kim) Elliman is the co-founder of Accelerate Wild America, a capital fund to accelerate the conservation of land and protect the nation’s biodiversity. Mr. Elliman retired as CEO of the Open Space Institute, a nationally recognized land conservation organization, in 2024.

During his 32 years at the helm, OSI conserved more than 2. 5 million acres in the eastern United States and created or enhanced over 600 parks and protected lands.. Mr. Elliman’s financial acumen and experience in complex land transactions was key to OSI’s success.

Prior to joining OSI, he worked for investment management companies and diversified holding companies for 25 years. Specializing in retail food and land management companies, Elliman served as Chairman of Piggly Wiggly Southern and a founding Director of Fresh Fields Markets (later Whole Foods Markets).

He was President of Grey Siefert & Co, of Overhills Group, General Partner of Elmrock Partners, and Director of Barrett Associates, all investment companies. He has also served on numerous non-profit and foundation boards, chairing The Geraldine R.

Dodge Foundation; Overhills Foundation; Wild Wings Foundation; Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust; The Wilderness Society; Grow NYC; and as Vice Chair of the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Environmental Defense Fund; Black Rock Forest Preserve; Storm King Art Center; among others, and on numerous advisory boards. Mr. Elliman received his B. A.

from Yale University and now serves on the Leadership Council Steering Committee of its School of the Environment. Kasey DeLuke is the Executive Director of the Gallogly Family Foundation. She leads the Foundation’s work to support land conservation and cancer research.

Kasey also serves as a Trustee for The Nature Conservancy in New York. She earned a J. D.

from American University Washington College of Law and a B. A. in Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

She lives in Western New York with her husband and two sons. A former top-ranked Wall Street analyst, Henry co-founded Business Insider in 2007, where he served as Editor in Chief until 2017 and CEO until 2023.. Henry is often a guest on CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and other networks.

He has contributed to The Atlantic, Slate, The New York Times, Fortune, New York, the Financial Times, and other publications (including, of course, Business Insider!) He has written extensively about technology and investing and is the author of “ The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer’s Guide to Investing . ” Henry is currently the Founder and CEO of Regenerator.

Melody Badgett brings strong commitment and years of leadership at the intersection of the environment and business, as well as decades exploring Nature, snow, backcountry and mountains all over the world—pursuing travel, and adventure on every continent and across cultures. As Managing Director of 1% for the Planet, working alongside Patagonia, a global alliance was started and built.

From its beginnings in a small one-room office with a staff of three, Yvon’s vision grew to 50+ countries, thousands of companies and environmental nonprofits, numerous ambassadors and partners, and a globally known brand, providing recurring revenue for the planet. Now over $500M in cumulative giving is one of the biggest funders of environmental work out there.

Melody went on to co-launch the International Affairs arm of a global foundation in SE Asia, focused on education for leaders in the environment and peace. Most recently, she was an honorary co-founder of an early-stage software company for executives—making the complex simple.

Prior work includes a dozen years in management consulting—Deloitte Consulting, IBM, an early employee in Mainspring, an Internet strategy firm IBM bought, and a founding researcher in IBM’s Institute for Business Value think tank. Melody has an undergraduate degree and an MBA from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She lives in the Mad River Valley VT.

She has held positions on numerous advisory boards, currently sits on two others focused on environment and global travel, bikes to fight cancer, skis as often as possible, volunteer teaches Science & Nature to (and learns a lot from) kindergarten and first graders.

Katie Bacon is a writer and editor; she also supports students applying to college as a counselor and writing specialist for Educational Advocates, a firm based in Brookline, Mass. Katie’s deep connection with the outdoors began on the dramatic, beautiful nature trails of Block Island, Rhode Island, a place that has worked hard to preserve land amid encroaching development.

Like her son, Jamie, she spent several summers in the Adirondacks, hiking in and appreciating the vast swath of wilderness there. It took her a little longer than Jamie to become a 46er, but she finished in the spring of 2025, accompanied by Mark and their daughter, Elizabeth. Because of Jamie’s love of the wilderness, Katie and her family asked people to donate to Northeast Wilderness Trust in his memory.

That connection led to a day spent at Bear Pond Forest, a 1056-acre parcel in the Adirondacks recently preserved by NEWT, where Katie could see the importance of protecting and rewilding this beautiful and diverse piece of land, in the middle of the Five Ponds Wilderness. A childhood of discovery in Vermont’s forests inspired both artistic and scientific pursuits for Anna and her siblings.

As the Director of Development for Northeast Wilderness Trust, Anna brings a passion for connecting with people and building frameworks of support to sustain wilderness conservation in the region. With a background in music education and nonprofit development, she has been an integral member of the fundraising teams at Shelburne Farms and Palm Beach Opera.

Anna holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education and a Master of Arts in Art and Culture Management from the University of Denver. Home in Vermont with her two dogs, Dublin and Echo, she enjoys snowboarding, hiking, cycling, paddleboarding, and reading. Michael is a proud native Vermonter who’s maternal side of the family dates back many generations.

Michael graduated from Champlain College with a BA in accounting and has worked in nonprofit accounting for over thirty years. He has worked for a community action agency, a New England healthcare organization, and an international nonprofit before coming to Northeast Wilderness Trust as the Finance Manager.

He likes to trail run, read, cook, and strum on his ukulele as well as taking urban and rural hikes with his dog Ethel who you will find by his side in his office at NEWT most every day. Michael was very happy to find an organization that holds the same values as he does concerning rewilding by allowing nature to evolve and adapt naturally. Laura taught in independent schools for 41 years.

First at Milton Academy, in Milton, MA, and then at St. Mark’s School, in Southborough, MA. At St.

Mark’s School she was the founding Director of Global Citizenship. Recently retired, Laura and her husband, John, now reside in Weybridge, VT. Laura has been involved in land conservation and environmental education in the Western Mountains of Maine for several decades and serves on the Board of Directors of the Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust and also on the Board of Directors of The Chewonki Foundation.

She cares deeply about land conservation as a way to build climate change resilience and as a way to educate the next generation about the importance of sustainable forest management and the natural world. Dave joined the Wilderness Trust in 2025 with over 15 years of experience as a Stewardship Director, first with the York Land Trust in Maine, and then with Lakes Region Conservation Trust in New Hampshire for the past 12+ years.

Before that, Dave was a Biologist with Maine Audubon and an educator and guide with the Appalachian Mountain Club, Adirondack Mountain Club, the University of New England, and the Vermont State Parks. Dave holds a B. S.

in Environmental Science from the University of Vermont and a Master’s of Science in Conservation Biology from Antioch University New England. In his spare time, he enjoys studying natural communities and wildlife habitats while hiking, paddling, fishing, and skiing. Jason is an ecologist and naturalist with a wide range of interests and expertise.

Before arriving at NEWT, he taught courses in the Field Naturalist program at the University of Vermont and led projects studying pollination ecology at the Gund Institute for Environment. He holds an M. S.

in Plant Biology from UVM’s Field Naturalist program and a B. S. in Geology and Environmental Studies from SUNY Buffalo.

Jason’s love for the north woods stems from his experiences as a guide and dog sled musher in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, and as a naturalist in the Appalachian Mountain Club’s high mountain huts. He now lives on an off-grid homestead adjacent to the Woodbury Mountain Wilderness Preserve.

In his spare time he enjoys exploring the wilds of Woodbury, chasing bumblebees, baking bread, and spending as much time as possible running, skiing, and hiking above treeline with his border collie, Raven. George grew up in rural central Pennsylvania where he developed an early interest in nature and the impacts humans have on it. He attended Penn State University earning a B.

S. degree in Environmental Resource Management and an M. S.

degree in Agronomy centered on the restoration of severely disturbed lands. His conservation career started in 1977 as a Soil Conservationist at the USDA Soil Conservation Service (SCS) at various locations in Pennsylvania. He moved to Maine in 1982 to continue working with the SCS as the District Conservationist for the for Piscataquis County and later for Somerset County.

After leaving the SCS, he worked as a self-employed soil scientist in Maine doing soil & environmental consulting. The work centered on the sustainable use and management of soil, land and water with an emphasis on soil health, land conservation and the protection of water quality. George later was employed by Sweet Water Trust and has been involved with Northeast Wilderness Trust since its founding.

George and his wife Anne have three adult daughters and have a home on Moosehead Lake near Rockwood, ME. He enjoys his family, gardening, hiking, fishing, hunting and various other activities. Aram Calhoun is Professor Emerita of Wetland Ecology and Conservation in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology at the University of Maine.

Her research focuses on wetland conservation, in particular how vernal pools function as keystone ecosystems. She grew up in the woods of Rhode Island, and mostly stuck to the Ocean State for her studies, attending Brown University (A. B.)

, Rhode Island College (M. A. in Teaching), and the University of Rhode Island (M.

S. in Wetland Ecology). Mark serves as the Director of Community Solar for ReVision Energy, a 100% employee-owned working to make life better by building our just and equitable electric future.

Mark previously spent 28 years at The Nature Conservancy, serving as the NH Chapter’s Director of Conservation Programs and then a decade as NH State Director. He and his wife Susan live in New Hampshire, where they raised their two children, and proudly power their home with two ReVision-installed ground-mount solar arrays.

Mark enjoys hiking, biking, snowshoeing and skiing with family and friends, playing guitar, and brewing up homemade maple syrup. He is an alumni and current trustee of Leadership NH, sits on the Hopkinton Budget Committees and chairs the town’s Community Power Committee, and has served on the boards of Capital Center for the Arts and Five Rivers Conservation Trust.

As Operations Manager, Ptarmigan coordinates day-to-day operations for the Wilderness Trust. She brings years of experience navigating the world of operations and administration in a variety of Vermont non-profits and is thrilled to combine her passion for detail with her love of nature and wild places. Ptarmigan received her B.

A. from Middlebury College and M. P.

A. from the University of Southern California. Outside of work, Ptarmigan can be found enjoying the outdoors, in the woods or on the water, reading, or playing agility with her dog.

Peter’s passion for wilderness conservation comes from hours spent exploring the outdoors as a child, and later as a professional guide throughout the Mountain West and Vermont. As Land Conservation Director, Peter draws on his experience as a commercial real estate attorney at a large Boston law firm.

In his free time, Peter serves on the board of the Duxbury Land Trust and enjoys hiking, backcountry skiing and spending time outdoors with his family and giant dog. Rich’s love of nature, combined with his nonprofit communications management experience, makes a perfect fit for his role as Communications Director.

Rich has a master’s degree in marketing from the Carlson School of Management and has worked in the land conservation field for nearly two decades. Based in Brunswick Maine, Rich travels to and from Montpelier and various Wilderness Trust Preserves as part of his continued exploration of the waters, woods, and wildlands of the region—sharing stories of impact that advance the cause of rewilding the Northeast.

Bill Roper has dedicated his professional and personal life to landscape conservation, inclusive community engagement, and sound land use planning. He has done this first as an environmental attorney in Vermont, then as the head of the Orton Family Foundation, and finally as a community watershed-resilience consultant to the High Meadows Fund. He’s served on VT non-profit boards and on his local planning commission.

He is an avid cyclist and lives with his wife on a conserved 80-acre parcel in Weybridge, Vermont. Alan is a managing director in the audit practice of a large international audit, tax, and advisory firm where his is responsible for overseeing financial statement audits for not-for-profit and privately held organizations.

He has worked with non-for-profit organizations his entire career, including for several years at a Massachusetts land trust. Alan is an outdoor enthusiast and lives with his family Beverly, Massachusetts. After growing up in Massachusetts and attending college in Maine, Colby started his career as a researcher and analyst at a public policy think tank in Washington, D.

C. He soon realized that the Northeast’s forests, rivers, and mountains were calling him home. In past positions and as a freelancer, Colby has written a book chapter, scholarly reports, and articles for local, regional, and national publications.

His short fiction has also been published in a variety of literary journals. At the Wilderness Trust, he writes about the organization’s work and helps formulate and execute its external communications strategy. He holds a B.

A. in Political Science with honors from Bates College and is an avid birder, amateur naturalist, and self-taught musician. Wandering alone amid the birches in New Hampshire woods and sleeping beneath the stars in a California forest with her big sisters are some of the childhood experiences that seeded Nicie’s love for, and sense of home in, wild nature.

In her role as the Wilderness Trust’s VP of Advancement, Nicie brings together her experience in finance, communications and non-profit leadership to lead our fundraising and communications teams and to help build the Wilderness Trust for the future. Outside of work, you will find her either outside, hiking, running or sailing the coast of Maine with her husband Jay Panetta in their old wooden sailboat, Owl.

Or she might be inside by the fire reading or studying Japanese with her tiger cat Kenji. With a deep passion for the landscapes of the Northeast, and a background in data, design and communication, Maddie Hatoum is the Digital and Technical Coordinator for the Wilderness Trust. Her passion for conservation was fostered by a childhood spent in Vermont, summers hiking in Acadia National Park, and receiving a B.

S. in Communication from Ithaca College in upstate NY. Maddie enjoys supporting a team that communicates the importance of protecting these beloved places for everyone.

She spends most of her free time outside on the lake, reading, and making her own clothes using natural fibers. Jeff is a social profit innovator with two decades of experience leading non-profit finances at the local, national, and international scale. He’s a systems thinker working to identify and leverage operational efficiencies to align revenue generation with sustainable mission impact and growth.

He holds an M. B. A.

from Antioch New England University plus a B. A. in Outdoor Education & Leadership and an A.

A. in Natural Resource Management from Sterling College in Craftsbury Vermont. He lives in Montpelier and enjoys chasing brook trout across New England.

Mandy Yonkman is the Donor Impact Coordinator for the Wilderness Trust, responsible for coordinating fundraising campaigns, donor relations, and engagement efforts, and maintaining and managing data. Mandy has a B. S.

from the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont and has spent time working for Vermont nonprofits as well as managing a social justice retreat center on an organic farm. Mandy’s interest in wilderness preservation stems from her years spent working and playing in the mountains, lakes, and streams of New England.

Kathleen is a protected area specialist with over two decades of experience in integrated large landscape conservation and development programs in Africa, Central America, and North America.

She created new protected and conserved areas (PCA), improved management and financial sustainability of PAs, established Collaborative Management Partnerships for PA management in six countries covering 14 million hectares and led community and climate resiliency initiatives. She was Vice President at the African Wildlife Foundation and a partner at Conservation Capital.

She is the Project Director, Enduring Earth at Pew Charitable Trusts, a Senior Advisor to the World Bank’s Global Wildlife Program and was co-founder and Executive Director of the Northeast Wilderness Trust. Janelle joined Northeast Wilderness Trust with a background that complemented the wild terrain of the Northeast.

After taking a brief break from higher education, Janelle obtained a master’s degree in conservation biology from Green Mountain College in 2019, but her environmental journey did not start there. Her “forever-passion” for “forever-wild” places stems from a lifetime of outdoor explorations and professional and volunteer endeavors across northern New York.

As a resident of the Adirondack Park, Janelle enjoys canoeing, birding, skiing, and day-dreaming about the next adventure. Janelle can answer any questions about the Wilderness Trust’s conserved properties in New York. Tricia joined the wild side as the Carbon and Transaction Specialist for Northeast Wilderness Trust.

Before the Wilderness Trust, she worked at Vermont Land Trust on the legal team and helped to launch their carbon program. She has worked on and off in land conservation and ecology since 2001. Tricia has a B.

S. in Political Science and Environmental Studies from College of the Holy Cross. Liz Thompson is a conservation ecologist and botanist living in Jericho, Vermont, where wildness is not too far away.

Liz is recently retired from a 40-year career in land conservation in Vermont but remains actively involved in the work. She co-authored Wetland, Woodland, Wildland, A Guide to the Natural Communities of Vermont, as well as Vermont Conservation Design and, most recently, Wildlands in New England, Past, Present, and Future . For 20 years she taught Field Botany and Ecology at the University of Vermont.

Liz’s current favorite pastime is walking in nature with a camera, finding the beauty in small and ordinary things. Eric has worked as an ecologist in New England for 36 years.

He most recently retired from 25 years with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, where he conducted statewide inventories of natural communities and associated rare plants and animals, consulted with landowners, and was involved with numerous plans and projects to protect biological diversity.

He is a co-author of Wetland, Woodland, Wildland: A Guide to the Natural Communities of Vermont and was one of the principal authors of Vermont Conservation Design, a vision for maintaining an ecologically functional landscape. Eric lives in Vermont with his wife, and they love being in their woods or visiting wild places. Nadine joined Northeast Wilderness Trust in 2022.

As Communications Director she guides NEWT’s strategic outreach and communication work. Nadine has led award-winning communications efforts on air quality, land use, and climate in the Pacific Northwest and Northeast. Since 1998 Nadine has worked with Middlebury College, most recently teaching as a Visiting Scholar and as Outreach Specialist with the New Perennials Project.

Her master’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania focused on community engagement to support Wild and Scenic River Conservation. On the Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op Board of Directors for 8 years, she co-founded the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity Committee.

From a childhood spent in the forests and shores of New England, to her discovery of the Cascades and lakes of the Adirondacks, to her Daoist studies, forever-wild is simply “the way through this time. ” Nadine enjoys practicing Tai Chi Chuan, photography, knitting, paddling, cooking, gardening, and walking.

Tom Garback (he/him) is currently pursuing an MA in Writing and Publishing at Emerson College, where he’s worked as Publisher of Wilde Press and Staff Writer, Copyeditor, Editor, Designer, and Marketing Associate across eight different literary, lifestyle, and fashion magazines. Most recently was a Marketing Intern at HarperCollins and an Editorial Intern at Aevitas Creative Management.

In addition to his role at NEWT, Tom also currently works as a literary assistant for NYT bestselling author Danielle Trussoni and as an intern for the Boston Book Festival. In his spare time, Tom enjoys singing with his a cappella group Achoired Taste and building community with his professional co-ed fraternity Zeta Phi Eta.

His fiction, poems, and essays have been featured in numerous horror anthologies and over twenty magazines, including catapult, Collective Realms, Cabinet of Heed, Blind Corner, and Sonder. Tom Garback (he/him) is currently pursuing an MA in Writing