LCSLO Staff Members.
Kaila was born and raised in Ben Lomond, California, a small town nestled in the Santa Cruz Mountains. She grew up camping, fishing, hiking, and horseback riding with her family. She attended Cal Poly earning a B.S.in Animal Science with a concentration in Livestock Production and Rangeland Resources, and a M.S. in Watershed Hydrology and…
Daniel grew up a stone’s throw from the Sand Counties of Wisconsin that helped shape Aldo Leopold’s land ethic. An early conservationist in the image of Leopold, Abbey, and Berry, Daniel has worked in, on, and for the land going on twenty-five years now, seventeen of which have been with The Land Conservancy. Daniel endeavors…
After graduating from Cal Poly in 2012 with a BA in English, Jamie’s passion for sports and the outdoors lead to a career merging her communications experience with recreational programming. Jamie leads our membership and community engagement efforts with over a dozen years of experience marketing recreational programs in San Luis Obispo County.
Jon spent much of his childhood in Clayton, California, a historic coal mining town at the foot of Majestic Mt. Diablo. Growing up exploring Mt. Diablo’s open spaces fueled his passion for the outdoors, being surrounded by nature, and preserving wild places. Jon has a B.S. in Ecology and Systematic Biology from Cal Poly with…
Kyle grew up exploring the forests and streams of New Jersey’s Sourland Mountains. He learned to enjoy working on and for the land as a farm hand and with an agricultural non-profit in New Jersey. With the West calling, he moved to California and completed a graduate program at San Diego State University focused on…
Anna grew up in Southern California, made her way up to Northern California, and is now excited to be living on the Central Coast. She first experienced the beauty of the area while at UC Santa Barbara, where she double majored in anthropology and English. She started her career as a newspaper editor. After discovering that…
Lindsay grew up dividing her time between the Southern California beach town of Encinitas and the wide open spaces of the Northern California town of Placerville. She spent many afternoons exploring the old wagon trails and fire roads on the back of her horse in the north, and hiking the estuaries and beaches in the…
Rachel moved from her hometown of Salinas to San Luis Obispo in 2017 to attend Cal Poly where she earned a degree in Environmental Management and Protection with minors in Water Science and Biology. She grew up surrounded by farmland (“Steinbeck Country”) with the Monterey Bay just a few miles to the west. After graduating…
A Central Coast local, Mckenna’s passion for the natural world stems from her childhood in Morro Bay where she spent most of her time surfing, fishing, golfing, and exploring the beautiful lands of SLO County. Mckenna graduated on a golf scholarship from CSU Monterey Bay with a B.A. in Psychology in 2013. After college she…
Scott grew up in the rural west Sonoma County town of Sebastopol, surrounded by vineyards and apple orchards. Scott pursued an Environmental Studies degree, with a focus and Sustainability and Social Justice at San Francisco State University. While the urban landscape was exciting, it was the rugged mountains of California’s Eastern Sierra that cemented his…