Our team

Luna Anna Archey

Associate Visuals Editor 
Location: Colorado

Luna wrangles and assigns art and photos for the magazine and website, takes photos herself, and designs HCN materials and magazine pages. In her free time she can be found taking her camera and her dogs, Rhubarb and Fig, for a walk.

email: lunaarchey at hcn.org
X (twitter): @la_archy

Bradon Barmann-Schwarz

Charitable Gifts Advisor
Location: California

Bradon helps to advance our fundraising efforts by nurturing relationships with major donors on the West Coast.

Raised as a homeschooled kid from California, Bradon made most of his childhood memories at his family’s cabin on the Grand Mesa in Colorado. After researching centuries of old records and articles, he grew fascinated by his heritage throughout the West. Bradon has grown into a seasoned fundraiser over six-years working with various causes. When he’s not working with donors, he fills his time up searching for dog-friendly trails, over-watering healthy plants, and replacing dead plants with ones that aren’t. 

email: bradon.schwarz at hcn.org
X (twitter): @bradonschwarz

Emily Benson

Science & Climate Editor
Location: Idaho

Emily oversees science and climate coverage. She is based in Moscow, Idaho. Her lifelong love of the outdoors was sparked by a childhood spent swimming and paddling the lakes and rivers of New York State’s Adirondack Mountains. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Colgate University in central New York, a master’s degree in biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and a graduate certificate from the University of California Santa Cruz’s Science Communication Program. She spends most of her free time cross-country skiing or cooling off in the nearest lake or river, depending on the season.

email: emilyb at hcn.org
X (twitter): @erbenson1

Nick Bowlin

Contributing Editor*
Location: Colorado

Nick provides contributing editor services for HCN and is a freelance journalist. He is based in Colorado’s Gunnison Valley, which he wrote about in a cover story for the magazine. After graduating from St. Olaf College, a small school in southeastern Minnesota, Nick got his journalism start at a newspaper in the Philadelphia area as a general assignment reporter. He then moved to Washington, D.C., where he covered campaigns, lobbying, and money in politics for E&E News, an environmental and energy publication. 

email: nickbowlin at hcn.org
X (twitter): @npbowlin

Chad Bradley

Editorial Fellow
Location: Arizona

Chad is Diné originally from northwestern New Mexico. They’re an editorial fellow at HCN’s Indigenous Affairs Desk and based in Phoenix, Arizona. He holds an MA in investigative journalism and a BA in journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Chad is a huge fan of film and indie music and is always watching/listening to something surreal or sad in their spare time.

email: chad.bradley at hcn.org
X (Twitter): @chadebradley
Bluesky: @chadebradley.bsky.social

Sunnie Clahchischiligi

Indigenous Affairs Editor
Location: New Mexico

Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi is Diné from T’iis NásBąs, Arizona. She has reported for the Navajo Times, the Osage News, The Guardian, USA Today, Rolling Stone magazine and The New York Times, to name a few. Clahchischiligi’s stories have won numerous awards including the $20,000 Doris O’Donnell Innovations in Investigative Journalism Fellowship from the Center for Media Innovations at Point Park University. In 2022 she was inducted into the inaugural class of the North American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame in the media category for sports writing and is a 2022-2023 Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellow. Clahchischiligi holds a Ph.D., in rhetoric and writing from the University of New Mexico, serves on the board of directors for the Indigenous Journalists Association (formally the Native American Journalists Association) and teaches at Arizona State University.

email: sunnie.clahchischiligi at hcn.org
X (twitter): @clahchischiligi

Anna Demetriades

Fundraising Communications Specialist*

Anna has worked in the nonprofit sector for nearly two decades as a grant writer, fundraiser and communications specialist. In her role at High Country News, she brings her love of writing and the environment to our grant applications and fundraising communications.

Before joining HCN, Anna honed her fundraising skills with a number of stellar nonprofit conservation organizations, including Advocates for the West, the Sawtooth Society and Snake River Waterkeeper.

A lifelong Idahoan and nature nerd, Anna finds her deepest inspiration in the mountains. Any mountains. She holds a BA in creative writing from Boise State University and still resides in Boise with her partner and their muffin of a dog.

email: anna.demetriades at hcn.org

Marissa Garcia

Graphic Designer and Social Media Coordinator*
Location: Colorado

Marissa works behind the scenes providing graphic design services for digital, print and social media content. She loves using her creativity to elevate the brand and showcase HCN as a leading news source. Although she is based in Colorado, Marissa is from a small town in Texas and has lived abroad in five other countries. She recently graduated from Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts in Cambridge, UK with her Masters in Graphic Design. Whilst at CSVPA, she obtained an internship at Hearst UK with Delish, creating a video series introducing British delicacies to expats. Previously, she has worked for two international airports, two international nonprofits and a clothing brand. Marissa is a Returned Peace Corps volunteer with a love for nature, travel and altruism. When she’s not designing, Marissa loves exploring the west (and everywhere else), dancing, cooking and taking photos.

email: marissa.garcia at hcn.org

Shaun Griswold

Acting News Editor*
Location: New Mexico

Shaun Griswold is a journalist in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is a citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna, and his ancestry also includes Jemez and Zuni on the maternal side of his family. He brings nearly two decades of print and broadcast news experience as a reporter, correspondent and editor. A foundation in his journalism is to report on the perspective from Indigenous people and tribal nations about topics such as environment, sovereignty in politics, education, child welfare and other issues impactful for residents in the Western United States.

email: shaun.griswold at hcn.org
bluesky: @shaun505.bsky.social

Roberto (Bear) Guerra

Visuals Editor
Location: Arizona

Bear assigns photography and art, works to expand our circle of photographers, takes photos himself, and designs pages for the magazine.

Bear’s photography focuses on social and environmental justice issues, the impacts of globalization and development, and the human condition in communities often underrepresented in the media. His work and collaborations with media, nonprofit and arts organizations have been published and exhibited widely. Amongst other recognitions, he has been a finalist for a National Magazine Award in Photojournalism; and was a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado. Originally from San Antonio, Texas, Bear lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his wife and frequent collaborator, journalist (and HCN correspondent) Ruxandra Guidi, and their daughter.

email: bearguerra at hcn.org
Instagram: @bearguerra

Ruxandra Guidi

Correspondent*
Location: Arizona

Ruxandra Guidi has been telling nonfiction stories for more than two decades. Her reporting for public radio, podcasts, magazines and various other publications has taken her throughout the United States, the Caribbean, South and Central America, as well as Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border region. 

Guidi holds a master’s degree in journalism from U.C. Berkeley and has worked on the award-winning series Lost & Found Sound, Latino USA, The World, Fronteras Desk and KPCC Public Radio. Formerly, she was an assistant professor of practice and assistant director of the Bilingual Journalism Program at the University of Arizona’s School of Journalism. In 2018, she was awarded the Susan Tifft Fellowship for women in documentary and journalism by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and in 2023, she became a Soros Equality Fellow. Alongside her freelance work, Guidi is the president of the board of Homelands Productions and serves on the board of El Tímpano.

LinkedIn: @ruxguidi

Gina Gurreri

Human Resources Associate
Location: Colorado

Gina (she/her) works in Human Resources with a focus on recruitment and onboarding. She also helps our Executive Director stay on track.

Originally from Pennsylvania, Gina made her way to bigger mountains and wider skies, and has called the West home since 2012. Her background in social work and love of data led her to manage evaluation and research efforts at a Denver nonprofit and to manage public health programs on Colorado’s Western Slope. Her greatest adventure to date was traveling the Western U.S. solo for a year, living on public lands, hiking at national parks and visiting friends scattered across the west. In her spare time, she frets over which outdoor sport to do each weekend and which podcast to listen to on the drive.

email: gina.gurreri at hcn.org

Greg Hanscom

Executive Director/Publisher
Location: Washington

Greg oversees the organization’s governance and finances, broadly, raises money and manages the senior team. He is an award-winning journalist and news industry trailblazer. In more than two decades in the business, he has helped for- and nonprofit news organizations from coast to coast adapt to a fast-changing business environment, and reach broader, more diverse audiences. It all began at High Country News, where he started as an intern and worked his way up to the editor’s chair. He is honored to be back at HCN after 14 years away, helping to write the next chapter of a long-running story about the region he loves.

email: greghanscom at hcn.org
X (twitter): @ghanscom

Barbara Harper

Customer Service Assistant
Location: Colorado

Barbara was born and raised in Colorado but was absent from her home state for the last 20 years. She has since moved back and is so happy to enjoy all four seasons again. Barbara has led an adventurous life of backpacking, and visiting national parks and wilderness as these things are close to her heart. She is thinking of giving up her passion for organic gardening to raise grasshoppers to feed the fall bird migration.  

email: barbara.harper at hcn.org

Tanya Henderson

Customer Service Specialist
Location: Colorado

Tanya supports High Country News’ mission by supporting HCN readers. Born in Flagstaff, AZ growing up, she never spent more than three years in one place as her family moved, usually landing in the rural West (though there were some formative years in the Midwest). As an adult she continued the pattern, still mostly in the rural West (though there were years in Germany, Massachusetts, and Hawaii). She broke her record living five years in Shoshone, CA working for the Amarogsa Conservancy. She collected degrees, jobs, and friends place-hopping, until the world swirled in 2020. By the end of that year she found herself in Paonia, CO where she intends to stay, enjoying time with favorite fella, feline, and access to all the possibilities our public lands hold.

email: tanya.henderson at hcn.org

Jack Herrera

Correspondent*
Location: New York

Jack is a freelance reporter with work in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Politico, The New York Times and elsewhere. He reports stories on how immigration and demographic change impact individual lives. Previously, he was a national correspondent for the LA Times, where he covered the Western U.S. Before that, he was a senior editor at Texas Monthly covering immigration, Latino issues and elections. He’s also a former contributing reporter at Politico Magazine. In 2023, the American Society of Magazine Editors awarded him an ASME Next award for journalists under 30. Born in California, Herrera now splits his time between Brooklyn and the West. 

Eva Holland

Contributing Editor*
Location: Canada

Eva provides contributing editor services for HCN, focusing on stories from Alaska. A freelance journalist based in Whitehorse, Yukon, she is also a correspondent for Outside magazine and the author of the book Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear.

email: eva.jt.holland at gmail.com

KHowe

Associate Product Manager – Customer Success
Location: Colorado

KHowe handles web-originated subscriptions and donations, as well as working directly with our customers. She grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah and graduated with a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Art from Western State Colorado University. KHowe interned at Thistle Whistle Farm in Hotchkiss, spent a year as a Fellow with the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union and worked for two years with the Delta County Libraries. She enjoys spending time with her dairy goats, exploring for petroglyphs and hiking the Black Canyon National Park.

email: khowe at hcn.org

Jane C. Hu

Contributing Editor*
Location: Washington

Jane C. Hu provides contributing editor services to HCN’s North Desk, where she writes and edits stories at the intersection of science, the environment, and society. Her work has also appeared in publications like Undark, The Guardian, WIRED, Smithsonian, National Geographic, The Atlantic, Science, and the 2022 Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology. She lives in Seattle and loves to hike, bike and climb.

email: jane.hu at hcn.org

Jess Kiernan

Customer Service Assistant
Location: Colorado

Jess Kiernan came to High Country News after years in the food industry, including time as an award-winning chocolatier. In addition to serving HCN customers, she is the owner of Mountain Dog Adventures, taking active dogs on hikes throughout the Western Slope. Jess lives in the North Fork Valley with her daughter Sunny, and also enjoys developing her sustainable food cooking skills and raising chickens

email: jessica.kiernan at hcn.org

Shi En Kim

Editorial Fellow
Location: California

Kim is the climate and science fellow at HCN. Previously, she was a freelance reporter covering general science, health and the environment for outlets such as National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine, Sierra and Popular Science and others. She’s also a cofounder of the journalist-owned digital magazine, Sequencer. Outside of writing, she enjoys hiking in mountain country, dusting off her art skills and catching up on the English Premier League.

email: shien.kim at hcn.org
X: @goes_by_kim
Bluesky: @goesbykim.bsky.social 

Gretchen King 

Executive Editor
Location: Colorado

Gretchen (she/her) manages the flow of all of HCN’s journalism, manages its fellowship program, oversees digital content, including its website, social media and newsletters, and edits stories. She loves to hear from HCN readers and help them forge a stronger connection to the stories of the West. Gretchen holds a B.S. in journalism and master’s in professional communications and has worked in public relations, multimedia and journalism before landing at the magazine. Raised on the Western Slope of Colorado, Gretchen has lived in Boulder, Indiana, Oregon and Fairbanks, Alaska. Now in Gunnison, Colorado, she loves any mountain experience, chocolate and spending time with her husband, Mike, her son, Riley, their two dogs and fat cat.

email: gretchenk at hcn.org
X (twitter): @gbtking

Brooke Larsen

Correspondent*
Location: Utah

Brooke is a correspondent for High Country News, covering water, the energy transition and conservation. She’s currently an MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellow. Formerly, she was the Virginia Spencer Davis Fellow for HCN. Brooke studied environmental policy at Colorado College and was a researcher with the State of the Rockies Project. She went on to receive her MA in environmental humanities from the University of Utah. Brooke is a recipient of HCN’sBell Prize and co-editor of the anthology New World Coming: Frontline Voices on Pandemics, Uprisings, and Climate Crisis. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

email: brooke.larsen at hcn.org
X/Instagram/Threads: @jbrookelarsen

Michael Leveton

Community Outreach Manager
Location: Washington

Michael connects High Country News with new communities and readers through a myriad of means. 

Raised in Vancouver, Washington, he later jumped around Washington state and also spent a couple of years in Portland, Oregon. During his senior year at the University of Puget Sound, he fell into (pun intended) lucha libre mexicana and began moonlighting as a professional luchador. Since graduating, he has spent a number of years moving back and forth between the U.S. and Mexico City chasing his dream of performing in Mexico’s grandest arenas. Spandex aside, he’s managed digital marketing and social media for several brands and companies, ranging from Gatorade and Google, to the ACLU of Washington and The GenderCool Project. He’s based out of the western Puget Sound region, where he tends to small livestock, vegetable plants and his two dogs.

email: michael.leveton at hcn.org
X (twitter): @miggy_smalls

Gary Love

Director of Product and Marketing
Location: Washington

Gary oversees marketing strategy, digital product development and manages the marketing and customer service teams. 

He has bounced around the West throughout life, born in California, raised in Colorado, attended school in Idaho, and settled in Washington.  He began his career sleeping under a desk trying to rebuild the Boulder Daily Camera’s site from scratch and has helped teams at Disney, Hearst and Tegna make sense of new audiences and technologies. When not working on introducing new audiences to High Country News, he can be seen playing for several roller derby leagues in the northwest.

email: gary.love at hcn.org

Kylie Mohr

Correspondent*
Location: Montana

Kylie is an award-winning freelance journalist and HCN correspondent who focuses on wildfire, conservation, lands and
climate change in the West. She has written for National Geographic, The Atlantic, Outside Magazine, Grist, E&E News/POLITICO, Hakai Magazine, Deseret Magazine, CBS News, Vox, NPR, CNN and more. When she’s not writing, Kylie spends her time with the best girl, the four-footed, wide-eyed and big-eared Nuna.

email: kylie.mohr at hcn.org

Carol Newman

Fundraising Administrator
Location: Colorado

Carol writes thank-you notes by the hundreds and helps coordinate our major donor work. Carol calls Colorado her home state, although, she was born in the midwest, and spent 12 years in Charlotte, North Carolina, prior to moving back to Colorado in 2014. As a Coloradan, she became interested in environmental issues at a young age and supports efforts to protect our natural resources. Her other passion is art, and the thriving arts community in the Paonia prompted Carol’s move to the Western Slope. Carol has wide-ranging experience working with nonprofits both as a staff member and as a board member. In her spare time, Carol loves to create art (of course!), spend time with family and friends, and go on adventures.

email: carolnewman at hcn.org

Michelle Nijhuis

Contributing Editor*
Location: Washington

Michelle began her journalism career in 1998, as a High Country News intern, and has been part of High Country News ever since; she now leads the Conservation Beyond Boundaries project for the magazine. She is the author of the 2021 book Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction, a critical history of the modern conservation movement, and her award-winning writing about science and conservation has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, and many other publications. Until 2013, Michelle and her family lived off the electrical grid near HCN’s home base in Paonia. They now live on the north side of the Columbia Gorge, in Washington state.

email: michelle at hcn.org
website: rhymeswithmyhouse.com
substack: conservationworks.substack.com

James Norris-Weyers

Customer Service Manager
Location: Colorado

James oversees all aspects of customer service at the HCN office in Paonia, Colorado. 

Originally from Dundee, Scotland, in 2013 James left a burgeoning legal career to work with families scavenging a life on the infamous Stung Meanchey landfill in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Moving to NYC with his wife in 2017, James was involved in senior leadership roles in sports-based youth development and international education organizations. A 2020 pandemic-enabled migration brought him to Paonia and a move to primary caregiver for his son and daughter during their pre-school years. 

James loves small-town life in the bountiful North Fork Valley and is happiest when his feet are clipped into his bike or snowboard bindings.

email: james.norrisweyers at hcn.org

Paisley Rekdal

Poetry Editor*
Location: California

Paisley Rekdal is the author of four books of nonfiction and six books of poetry, the most recent of which is NIGHTINGALE (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), winner of the Washington State Book Award. Her newest book of poetry, WEST: A TRANSLATION, is a hybrid documentary poem that explores the history and cultural impact of the transcontinental railroad on American culture. A digital version of the poem can be found at www.westtrain.org. She is the former poet laureate of Utah.

email: paisley.rekdal at hcn.org
X (twitter): @PaisleyRekdal

Annie Rosenthal

Editorial Fellow
Location: Texas

Annie is HCN’s Virginia Spencer Davis fellow, covering rural life, agriculture, and migration.

Originally from DC, she got her reporting start at the weekly paper in Homer, Alaska. Before joining HCN, she spent three years covering the remote border communities of Far West Texas for Marfa Public Radio, where she also produced a weekly Spanish-language news show and an award-winning podcast about rural reproductive care. Her work has appeared on NPR and Marketplace and in the Washington Post, the LA Review of Books, Politico Magazine, and the Oxford American, among other places. She’s also an editor for Signal Hill, a magazine in sound.

email: annie.rosenthal at hcn.org

Jennifer Sahn

Editor-in-Chief
Location: California

Jennifer oversees all of HCN’s editorial content, including the magazine and website, and serves as a key spokesperson for the org at events and with other media.

Jennifer has logged two decades at nonprofit magazines, editing award-winning journalism and narrative nonfiction and leading teams to new heights. She grew up in California, settled in New England to become editor of Orion magazine, then returned to California as executive editor of Pacific Standard. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards, Utne Independent Press Awards, Pushcart Prize, O. Henry Prize, John Burroughs Essay Awards, and the Best American Series anthologies. She lives in Santa Barbara, where she walks the frontcountry trails and wild stretches of coast.

email: jennifer.sahn at hcn.org
X (twitter): @throwin_shadows

Kate Schimel

News and Investigations Editor
Location: New Mexico

Kate oversees HCN’s news coverage, focusing on how our stories can serve readers and support their decision-making. She also shepherds HCN’s investigations and develops major projects focused on accountability in the Western U.S.

She grew up in Colorado and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has led award-winning investigations of subjects ranging from unethical medical practices to discriminatory policing and public lands use. Her career has revolved around questioning why things are the way they are — and what it would take for them to change. She has a degree in biology from Reed College.

email: kate.schimel at hcn.org
X (twitter): @kateschimel

Michael Schrantz

Marketing Communications Manager
Location: New Mexico

Michael works on engaging HCN’s audience and welcomes any and all feedback from readers.

He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and worked at newspapers in Fairbanks, Alaska, and Steamboat Springs, Colorado, before joining the Texas Observer in Austin. 

email: michael.schrantz at hcn.org

Anna V. Smith

Associate Editor
Location: Oregon

Anna joined the High Country News team in Paonia as our editorial intern in July 2016 and is now an associate editor based in Oregon, where she writes and edits for HCN’s Indigenous Affairs Desk.

She has spent the majority of her life in the Pacific Northwest, from growing up in rural Oregon to becoming a news reporter on a small cluster of islands in northern Washington. In 2018 and in 2019 she received Best Coverage of Native America from the Native American Journalism Association.

email: annasmith at hcn.org

Leah Sottile

Contributing Editor*
Location: Oregon

Leah Sottile is a contributing editor for books and culture content at High Country News. She also serves as a correspondent, specializing in stories on political and religious extremism, policing, class and power. Her work has been featured by the Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Outside and The Atlantic. She is the author of the book When the Moon Turns to Blood, and the host of the podcasts Burn Wild and Two Minutes Past Nine, produced with the BBC, and the acclaimed series Bundyville. She lives in Oregon.

X (twitter):@Leah_Sottile
Instagram: leah.sottile
Bluesky: leahsottile.bsky.social

McKenna Stayner

Features Director
Location: Oregon

McKenna oversees and edits HCN’s long-form feature stories. 

She has backpacked, biked, and rafted in every state in HCN’s area of coverage and has covered much of the Southwest and California by foot. She went to St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and recently moved back West from New York, where she received her Master’s In Oral History from Columbia University and worked as an editor at The New Yorker Magazine, focusing on features, books and politics. She was also an organizer of The New Yorker Magazine Union and remains committed to employees working together to advocate for their rights, values and leadership within all types of organizations. She loves sleeping outside, preferably under bright stars, and is happiest in the desert.

email:mckennastayner at hcn.org

Diane Sylvain

Copy Editor
Location: Colorado

Diane ensures that editorial, marketing and fundraising copy meets HCN style.

She is a one-time Air Force brat who grew up all over the country but lost her heart to western Colorado. When she’s not copy editing, she writes rambling essays about nothing in particular and occasionally even finds the time to do a bit of artwork. She’s worked for HCN since 1990 and lives in a very old and indescribably ramshackle house in Paonia, surrounded by mountainous piles of books, interesting rocks and seashells, and patrolled at night by the ghosts of all the cats who have gone before. Her hobbies include making bad puns, complaining about sciatica, displaying an obnoxious certainty about grammar, and enjoying long walks, leisurely train trips and periodic retreats to the nearest Trappist monastery, which as everybody knows is a great place to meet interesting guys.

email: diane at hcn.org

Jonathan Thompson

Contributing Editor*
Location: Greece (yes, Greece)

Jonathan Thompson was born and raised in southwestern Colorado. He owned and edited the Silverton Standard & the Miner newspaper in the tiny town of Silverton, Colorado, and was the editor-in-chief of High Country News from 2007 to 2010. He is the editor of The Land Desk, the author of two non-fiction books, River of Lost Souls and Sagebrush Empire, and one novel, Behind the Slickrock Curtain. He currently lives in Greece with his wife, Wendy.

email: jonathan at hcn.org
X (twitter): @land_desk

Eva Videla

Fundraising Associate
Location: New Mexico

Eva is responsible for managing the Sustainers Club and providing support for the organization’s fundraising efforts.

Eva was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but grew up in Chihuahua, Mexico. She holds a Master’s degree in Communication Studies from New Mexico State University and a Bachelor’s in Communication and International Studies from The University of New Mexico. During her studies, she focused on exploring the cultural identity of the fronterizos and its intersectionalities. She enjoys traveling, gardening, and spending time with her family and pets in her free time.

email: eva.videla at hcn.org

Cindy Wehling

Art Director
Location: Colorado

Cindy is responsible for the design and look of the magazine, and ensures that materials from across the organization adhere to the HCN brand. 

She has been responsible for making High Country News look its best since 1990, including shepherding its transition from newspaper to magazine and from black and white to full color. A former newspaper reporter and editor, she works with photographers and artists and heads up the design and production of the magazine. Cindy and her husband, Don Olsen, also work on the family farm and are continuing to add on to the Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired Usonian house they built overlooking their hayfields.

email: cindy at hcn.org

Mary Zachman

Finance and Payroll Administrator
Location: Colorado

Mary manages our books and makes sure everyone gets paid on time.

She grew up in Santa Barbara, California, and lived on the west coast of Florida. The West called her back, and she moved to Colorado in 2009, first landing Montrose and then in Ridgway. In 2015 Mary found Paonia and has felt at home ever since. She shares her home with her husband, John, and their two dogs. Mary has three grown kids who followed her to Colorado. She loves hiking and exploring the beautiful Colorado landscapes. Mary’s passion is real, healthy, organic food, and she loves spending time cooking with the bounty that Paonia offers. 

email: maryz at hcn.org

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*independent contractor