board of directors

sandra marra

Chair

Sandi has been ATC chair since 2013.

gregory winchester

Vice Chair

Greg is a longstanding Appalachian Trail section-hiker and ATC life member.

mary higley

Treasurer

Mary has served on the Board since 2011 and is currently Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee.

edward guyot

Secretary

Ed has served on the Board since 2013.

beth critton

Member

Beth is serving her second term on the Board and is currently chair of its Stewardship Council.

Colin Beasley

Member

Former senior executive of Verizon, Colin currently lives in New London, NH.

colleen peterson

Member

Colleen joined the ATC board in 2015.

daniel howe

Member

Daniel was elected to the Board in 2015.

Grant Davies

Member

Grant is an avid hiker and cross-country skier in his native Quebec.

James LaTorre

Member

James is a Georgetown University graduate and a partner at the firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers

norman findley

Member

Norman was elected to the Board in 2015 and retired as executive vice president and principal operating officer of Coca-Cola Enterprises.

robert hutchinson

Member

Robert is an ATC life member who has been hiking the Appalachian Trail since his teens.

RUBÉN ROSALES

Member

Rubén was appointed to the Board in 2015.

Shalin Desai

Member

Shalin Desai is a former operations consultant at McMaster-Carr and a regional market manager at Jetsetter/TripAdvisor.

Thomas L. Gregg

Member

Tom was a 2017 North Bound (NOBO) AT thru-hiker using the trail name “Cool Breeze”.

stewardship council

beth critton

Chair

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ashton cole

Member

Ashton is Director of Conservation and Stewardship for the Land Trust of Virginia.

cosmo catalano

Member

Cosmo has been a member of the ATC since 1998.

fred tutman

Member

Fred is an advocate for clean water in Maryland’s longest and deepest intrastate waterway.

rebekah young

Member

Rebekah has been a member of the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club since 2009 and is the current club president.

ryan smith

Member

Ryan is managing editor of the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Outdoors magazine and is active in the Randolph Mountain Club.

tom mullin

Member

Tom is currently an associate professor of Parks and Forest Resources at Unity College in Maine.

tom ottinger

Member

Tom is a former board member of the Georgia Appalachian Trail Club.

trudy phillips

Member

Trudy chairs the Virginia Regional Partnership Committee and is also the alternate for the Natural Bridge Appalachian Trail Club.

Bill Bryant

Member

Bill Bryant lives in Dunwoody Georgia and is currently Information & Education Director for the Georgia Appalachian Trail Club (GATC).

Nicole Wooten

Member

Nicole Wooten of Beacon, New York is Conservation Stewardship Manager for the Hudson Highlands Land Trust (HHLT).

Rush Williamson

Member

Rush is on the Board of Potomac Appalachian Trail Club and is a trail maintainer.

next generation advisory council

alivia acosta

Next Generation Advisory Council Member

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Amanda Wheelock

Next Generation Advisory Council Member

Amanda grew up in northwest Georgia, just outside of Chattanooga, TN.

brady adcock

Next Generation Advisory Council Member

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Caitlin Miller

Next Generation Advisory Council Member

Caitlin grew up in New Hampshire and the Appalachian Trail has been a part of her life since a two-week backpacking trip.

Dakota Jackson

Next Generation Advisory Council Member

Dakota has hiked and traveled throughout Europe, South America,

Jolyn Coleman

Next Generation Advisory Council Member

Jolyn is a recent graduate with a Women’s Studies Major and African and African Diaspora Minor.

JT Stokes

Next Generation Advisory Council Member

JT is an organic farmer, avid explorer, and student of all things plants.

Kristin Murphy

Next Generation Advisory Council Member

Kristin currently lives in Washington DC and is working as the Campaign Coordinator for the Outdoors America Campaign

marcela maldonado

Next Generation Advisory Council Member

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Michela Williams

Next Generation Advisory Council Member

Michela is a recent graduate from Georgia State University where she obtained a degree in Economics with a minor in Marketing.​

Natrieifia Miller

Next Generation Advisory Council Member

Natrieifia worked with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) since the summer of 2016 until fall 2017.

oforiwaa pee agyei-boakye

Next Generation Advisory Council Member

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Sahejveer Bhatia

Next Generation Advisory Council Member

Sahejveer is a water/wastewater engineer for AECOM.

stephen eren

Next Generation Advisory Council Member

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tony richardson

Next Generation Advisory Council Member

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Jake Campbell

Next Generation Advisory Council Member

Jake is a second-year environmental science student at the University of Vermont.

To apply to the A.T. Next Generation Advisory Council, CLICK HERE.