The Greensleeves Crew...
We are a small group with a big vision... we intend to do nothing less than heal the land and heal the people. We will create a path for human hands to get back out on the land, re-learning, re-shaping, restoring and regenerating.
Resa Crowell
Incense Cedar, (President)
Resa has over 20 years experience working for good in both organic food entrepreneurship and environmental nonprofits. With a background in business management and public relations, and a deep and abiding love of the wild, Resa served for many years as SYRCL's Wild and Scenic Film Tour Sales Manager, broadening the reach and scope of this locally born, now national film festival. Resa comes to us with crucial knowledge and skills about how to be increasingly sustainable and scalable when working for good in the environmental nonprofit world.
Laurie Fitzgerald
Black Oak, (Vice President)
Laurie is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with more than 20 years experience working with adults, children and youth. She has extensive experience with depression, anxiety, grief/loss, intimate partner violence, and trauma and recently opened her own practice right here in Grass Valley. Laurie will help us craft a holistic, trauma-informed approach for our program; facilitating the development of a mindfulness-based set of practices on offer to crew members, if and when participants choose to explore this. Laurie's expertise will help us foster whole-person care and peer support, woven-in to everything we do.
Matt Lopez
Buckeye (Treasurer)
Matt is a recent graduate of Sacramento State's Environmental Studies and Geographical Information Systems program, and has worked for Nevada County as an Environmental Technician. He is certified in CALFIRE's new defensible space zone regulations for individual homeowners, and skilled in fuel reduction techniques. Matt is also a musician, and along with his partner Rose, leads healing sound bath workshops through Inner Path in Nevada City. Matt is also currently working on his certification through the College of Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine in Berkeley.
Michelle Noe
Madrone (Secretary)
Michelle has taught generations of home schoolers about native plants, as well as food and medicinal foraging as part of science learning in our local ecosystems, raising a restoration botanist in the process. She also has extensive expertise and experience in the alternative and natural building field, having helped to design and complete straw bale homes on the San Juan Ridge. Michelle is an avid restoration volunteer with the Wolf Creek Community Alliance, as well as a talented singer and cello player. She comes to us ready to help Greensleeves expand our repertoire!
Maile McGrew-Fredé
Field Mouse (Executive Director)
Maile has been an anti-nuclear activist, labor organizer, train-hopping hobo, mother of two, and artist. In 2005 she took a part-time job as a defacto rural library director in northern New Mexico and fell in love with the civic service role a community library can play. Earning her Master's in Library Science she worked extensively in NM and then in public libraries in California, to initiate outreach programs focused on social justice and information access for marginalized communities. In 2019 she was awarded Library Journal's Mover's and Shaker's award for her work with re-entry communities and people experiencing homelessness. Here in the Sierra foothills, she has been active as a restoration volunteer with the Wolf Creek Community Alliance (WCCA); work that has inspired a yearning to craft a robust restoration response to the systems issues that plague our world today.
Kristen Hein Strohm
Blue Elderberry (Consultant)
Kristen comes to us with over 20 years of professional experience in wildlife biology, field research, bird and vegetation surveys, and habitat restoration. With an incredibly diverse skill set, Kristen has contributed her wildlife expertise to CEQA/ NEPA analyses, taught high school students at the Sierra Academy of Expeditionary Learning (SAEL) and conducted community birdsong classes with the Bear Yuba Land Trust. She has served as project manager with the Sierra Streams Alliance, and project lead on the Bear River Restoration Plan. She is the current Executive Director of Wolf Creek Community Alliance, increasing capacity and spearheading restoration at a new 58 acre preserve along Wolf Creek along the south western edge of Nevada County. We are so lucky to have Kristen's insight, experience and advocacy as a volunteer consultant assisting Greensleeves' start-up.
Theo Fitanides
Chaparral Pea (Consultant)
Theo Fitanides is a graduate in Biological Sciences from Cal Poly, San Louis Obispo and has worked in landscaping, nurseries, and conservation, running the CNPS East Bay chapter's Native Here Nursery and serving on the steering committee. Currently he works with the North Yuba Forest Partnership, the multi-group coalition developing a landscape-scale restoration plan for the Yuba watershed. Theo has a deep and abiding knowledge of an passion for restoring the native herbaceous layer in our local forest floor habitats, a set of species that has been neglected and disrupted since the gold rush, and yet is critical for biodiversity and fire resilience in Sierra Nevada forests. Restoration of this herbaceous layer is a key focus point at Greensleeves. We are so lucky to have Theo as part of our growing crew.