Kimi Barbosa
Director
Kimi Barbosa is the proud daughter of Brasilian immigrants and
Tim Choate
Board Treasurer
Catie Clune
Director
Eloisa Colín
Board Secretary
Eloisa Colín is currently an Adjunct Counselor at the Santa Rosa Junior College. She received a BA in Spanish at
Dr. Brenda Flyswithhawks, Ph.D. (She/Her Ghigau ᎩᎦᎤ)
Board Vice Chair
Dr. Flyswithhawks is a citizen of the Tsalági Eastern Cherokee Nation, Qualla Boundary
She is a Professor of Psychology, Past Department Chair of the Behavioral Sciences Department, and Past President of the Academic Senate at Santa Rosa Junior College. She retired in December 2019 and is currently serving as a part-time professor and Past President of the Academic Senate.
Prior to Santa Rosa Junior College, Dr. Flyswithhawks was the Director of the Behavioral Health Department at the Sonoma County Indian Health Project and maintained a private clinical practice in Santa Rosa. She has been scholar in residence or visiting professor at universities throughout the United States and world. Dr. Flyswithhawks has also served as Co-Director of the National S.E.E.D. Project (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) at Wellesley College.
She has served as Treasure and Board of Directors for the Sonoma County Indian Health Project and the Ya-Ka-Ama Board of Directors. She is embraced and loved by local Sonoma County tribes and is referred to by many as “family.”
Dr. Flyswithhawks is a cultural bearer, water protector, and environmental cultural educator working to bridge western and traditional science. She serves on the Native Advisory Council at Pepperwood Preserve and is currently partnering with a team of local western wildfire biologist and scientist to educate and assist in the rethinking of wildfire, science, and climate through an Indigenous lens. She reminds us that we come from the land and works daily to educate all on how to be in relationship and better stewards of the land we inhabit.
It is Dr. Flyswithhawks intention and commitment to work with LandPaths Board of Directors to facilitate better relationship with the land through the programs it offers and the people who steward it.
Craig Hazel
Director
Belén Lopez-Grady
Director
Gina Lopez Solorzano
Director
A Los Angeles native, Gina Lopez Solorzano has considered herself an environmentalist since the age of three. She joined LandPaths to promote their mission to build community, root youth in nature, and show that nature is for everyone. Gina has always believed in these values and has tried to incorporate them in her personal and professional pursuits. She holds forestry degrees from University of California Berkeley and Yale, and has applied her forestry knowledge in the field as a forestry technician throughout Northern California and as an educator for an outdoor environmental program for youth in Colorado. Gina is currently a program analyst for a local environmental nonprofit that supports forest resilience initiatives in Sonoma County.
Hilda Shum
Director
Hilda Shum is is an active hiker, nature enthusiast, and artist. Her first impression of Sonoma County was
Beth Wyatt
Board President
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