Cullen Brady

Cullen Brady grew up in the western United States and has a deep passion for policy and working to find landscape-scale solutions for community-based conservation. After moving to Portland, Oregon to pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree with double majors in international affairs and German studies (including spending a year in Munich, Germany), from Lewis & Clark College, Cullen served as an intern for Congressman Earl Blumenauer. He then worked for the City Club of Portland creating venues and opportunities for civic engagement at various levels, along with facilitating community-based policy research. He then went to work for The Nature Conservancy in major gift fundraising and then as their policy associate for the Western United States. On the weekends, you will likely find Cullen sipping the most recently released vintage of a Pinot Noir in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.

Gerry Gray

Gerry Gray is the Executive Director of American Forests. He has extensive experience working on policy issues related to the restoration, protection, and management of public and private forests. Since the mid-1990s, his policy work has focused on advancing community-based forestry and helping to bring the voices of local and regional partners to the national policy arena. In addition, Gerry has worked on issues related to forests and climate change and forest-based ecosystem services. Prior to joining American Forests in 1988, Gerry worked as a state forest resource planner with the Division of Forestry, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, and with the U.S. Forest Service, Northeastern Area, State and Private Forestry. He holds a Doctor of Forestry degree from the University of Minnesota (1987), a Master of Forest Science from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (1982), and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Yale University (1978).

Kathy Lynn

Kathy Lynn is a contractor with American Forests and works with regional and national community forestry organizations, rural communities and Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest to build capacity to address social, environmental and economic issues associated with climate change, forest management and wildfire. She is co-chair of the Rural Voices for Climate Change Working Group and is also working on a Forest Service research study examining climate change and social vulnerability among rural, resource-based communities and indigenous populations in the U.S. Kathy is also a contractor for Sustainable Northwest and a courtesy researcher with the University of Oregon’s Environmental Studies Program. Kathy has a Master’s degree in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Oregon and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Haiti from 1996 to 1999.