President

Dan is the General Counsel & Corporate Secretary at Medford Fabrication and has served on numerous boards and commissions regionally and statewide including Britt Music and Arts Festival, Oregon Environmental Council, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Oregon Water Resource Commission, Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, Southern Oregon University Foundation, and many others. Dan enjoys gardening, travel, fishing, rowing, kayaking, Nordic skiing, and cycling.

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Vice President

Molly is the Preserve Manager for The Nature Conservancy’s SW Oregon field office. When not busy caring for TNC’s conserved lands and coordinating volunteers, she produces vibrant wines from her 4-acre certified biodynamic vineyard in Talent.

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Treasurer

Heather is a southern Oregon native and is currently a CPA and CFO working with private family-run businesses where her work crosses into land use and conservancy. An avid outdoors woman, Heather takes advantage of local public lands for trail running, skiing, hiking, and rafting. As a new board member Heather is focused on long-term good of the Rogue River region.

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Secretary

Gordon Gray is a passionate advocate for the preservation and protection of natural resources. He has over 20 years of experience in marketing, client experience management, strategy development, and executive coaching, and has worked as a strategic leader with a variety of organizations, including Charles Schwab, Oracle, and Levi Strauss. He is currently working as an executive coach and health, wellness and fitness coach here in Ashland having moved here from the Bay Area over three years ago.

Gordon is a graduate of UC Davis and St. Mary's College, and holds a BA in Organizational Sociology and a master's degree in Financial Analysis and Behavioral Economics.

Gordon is excited to join the Board of Directors of the Southern Oregon Land Conservancy and contribute his skills and experience to the organization's mission of protecting the region's natural heritage. He is a strong believer in the power of collaboration and is committed to working with and inspiring our community to find innovative solutions to the challenges facing our environment.

Jim is the former director of the Grants Pass Community Development Department. He also served as the City of Medford Planning Department Director. Jim has served on SOLC’s Lands Committee since 2013.

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Jordan Bruyn-Fry (she/her) is an enrolled member of the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians and Executive Director of Rogue Action Center (RAC), a community-based nonprofit whose mission is to grow organizing power and leaders for a just and thriving Southern Oregon. As a first-generation college graduate, Jordan studied Criminal Justice/ Criminology and Native American Studies as a Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Scholar at Southern Oregon University. Jordan is passionate about cultural revitalization, community healing and decolonization. As Executive Director of RAC, she is dedicated to developing new leaders and enjoys finding collaborative solutions to reach our collective liberation. Located in rural Jackson County, Jordan gladly spends her free time beading, attending cultural activities, and hanging out with friends, family or her farm of critters,

Ingrid has lived in the Rogue Valley since 2003, and has had the privilege to steward 2 beautiful acres near Emigrant Lake since 2013 where she is learning how to develop legal frameworks around rights of nature to reindigenize and rematriate privately held land and where she grows most of her own food. She is a founder of the Accounting Alchemy Network, volunteers as a course moderator for the Pachamama Alliance, and participates in several other organizations and communities. Ingrid professionally coaches businesses and organizations around developing regenerative and values-based approaches, and teaches courses on networking, leadership, mental fitness, and regenerative accounting principles. When Ingrid is not actively working to heal the world, she is usually playing Irish music, frolicking with her goats, doing a Joe Dispenza meditation, or having a deep conversation about quantum physics & chaos magick.

Dan manages his family’s 300-acre ranch in Gold Hill and is active on SOLC’s Lands Committee. He has served on the board since 1994 and has played a critical role in the growth of the organization.

Donald is recently retired from 45 years as a real estate lawyer, focusing largely on conservation work. He helped found several land trusts in California and is a founder and initial board member of the Land Trust Alliance. He has been an active volunteer with SOLC for 10 years including about 8 years of prior board service.

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Stasie is the Indigenous Partnerships Program Manager for Vesper Meadow Education Program and brings a wealth of experience to her position; blending her various backgrounds in psychology, program development, community building, DEI and Indigenous wellness facilitation, and environmental advocacy. Stasie is excited to bring her expertise, insight, and strategic planning capabilities to Southern Oregon Land Conservancy, in particular, to serve the Indigenous descendants of the homelands that SOLC stewards. 

Kris brings more than 15 years of experience working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office for Coastal Management where she partners with Oregon and Washington on land use, resource management and community resilience work. She and her family relocated to Southern Oregon from Portland two years ago and are enjoying exploring all of the fantastic outdoor recreation and community activities in the region.

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