Cassandra Moseley

Cassandra Moseley is the Director of the Ecosystem Workforce Program in the Institute for a Sustainable Environment at the University of Oregon. At the EWP, she developed applied research and policy education programs, focused on community-based forestry, federal forest management, and the restoration workforce. She is co-editor of People, Fire, and Forests: A Synthesis of Wildfire Social Science and is co-author of Collaborative Environmental Management: What Roles for Government? Prior to joining EWP in 2001, she was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida and Program Development Director at the Rogue Institute for Ecology and Economy in Ashland, Oregon. She is a former board member of the Flintridge Foundation and the Applegate Partnership. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University, where she studied collaborative natural resource management and American political development, and her B.A. from Cornell University.

Marnie Criley

Marnie Criley is the Coordinator for the Montana Forest Restoration Committee, a 3-year old collaborative effort to promote and engage in ecologically sound restoration projects on Montana's national forests. Marnie is also the Director of Restore Montana, a network of organizations and businesses that works to promote and strengthen an integrated restoration economy that addresses the natural and built environments.  Finally, Marnie works part time for a restoration firm, Watershed Consulting. Over the last ten years, Marnie has been engaged in numerous restoration-focused collaboratives at a national, regional and local scale, and these efforts have led to her interest in the relationship between ecological restoration and human communities. Her current focus is on creating high-skill, high-wage restoration jobs and furthering public understanding of the importance of restoration. Marnie has been involved with RVCC since 2003.