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Lisa's Family has long been associated with Flagstaff's Southside.  As longtime business owners, activists and catalysts, they have worked hard to see the renaissance of the historic red light district.  An NAU graduate in Telecommunications-Broadcast Journalism/Political Science, Lisa also writes a monthly Southside Business column for The Noise, is a member of the Board of Theatrikos Playhouse, a member of Nuestras Raices (an organization dedicated to promoting Hispanic culture and history through events, gatherings, performing and visual arts), and one of the founding members of the Southside Community Association. Lisa, her soulmate and two children live in Southside where they continue their efforts to maintain their barrio as a culturally vibrant and visually distinctive and eclectic area.

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Born and raised in Colorado, Andy has lived in Flagstaff for the past 10 years. He is a graduate from Northern Arizona University with a MA in applied cultural anthropology with a focus on cultural concepts of boundaries. Before starting work for the Sierra Club in 1999, Andy's work connecting environmental conservation and cultural diversity included sea turtle protection in Central Mexico with the University de Guadalajara and sustainable agriculture in West Africa with Hausa villagers. As the Tribal Partnership Representative for the Sierra Club, Andy continues to explore the important connections with tribal partners for environmental protection and healthy communities. As a proud member of the F³ board, Andy and his wife Erin, a local business owner of the Yoga Experience (www.theyogaexperience.com), continue to raise their kids, Noah and Ruby, in this great mountain town and expect Flagstaff’s future is bright and sustainable.

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Karen Goodwin grew up in the cornfields of central Illinois and escaped to Arizona 40 years ago. She is a retired forest scientist, and her husband John is a retired wildlife biologist. Over the 20 years she has lived in Flagstaff, Karen has been an active volunteer for the Wilderness Society, the Flagstaff New Day Peace Center, and Concerned Citizens of Arizona. Karen and John are over-the-hill river runners, rabid gardeners, and pro bono babysitters for the grandchildren.

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Mary has spent her career in education in various positions - as a teacher, coordinator for FUSD's community schools program, supervising the student teaching program at NAU for a year, teaching part-time at Coconino Community College and as a counselor at Killip School and Knoles School in the Flagstaff School District. She has been on a number of boards and at this time is a board member for the Coconino Coaltion for Children and Youth, Publicity Chair for AAUW, and volunteer coordinator for the Coconino County Democratic Party. Mary believes that F3 offers a positive vision for Flagstaff and has been a member and volunteer with the group for a number of years. Being a part of the board offers an opportunity to become more involved with the organization and the important voice it has in the community.

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Eva—born, raised, and well educated in Slovakia—is interested in community planning and development suited to human scale. Adopting the pre-automobile development practices of mixed-use pedestrian-oriented neighborhoods, she believes, leads to happier and more sustainable communities and preserves open space. Experienced in strategic planning, social research, and marketing, Eva works for NAU and runs a small consulting business focused on the higher education community.

Taylor McKinnon

Taylor McKinnon grew up in Flagstaff, is an Eagle (a graduate of Flagstaff High School) and has spent his professional career working toward sustainable relationships between people and their environment in northern Arizona and throughout the American West.  He is the public lands campaigns director at the Center for Biological Diversity, a national conservation organization, and has served on numerous boards and commissions locally, regionally and nationally.  Taylor’s interests include back-country snowboarding, bicycle touring, biogeography, photography, river running, music history and composition, food, wine and, in general, ethics, politics, law and justice.

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Miguel is a native of San Francisco, educated at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and the highlands of Guatemala in applied anthropology and agricultural development. Since coming to Flagstaff in 1989 as professor of anthropology at NAU, his work has involved Hopi terrace gardens, cultural preservation, globalization and its impacts, and community ethnography. Currently he is a board member of the Museum of Northern Arizona, the Coconino County Supervisors Hispanic Advisory Board, the Arizona Association of Chicanos for Higher Education, The Arboretum of Flagstaff, and the NAU Commission on Ethnic Diversity. In the past he has served on the boards of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the International Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture. In joining F³ he says, "The whole world seems sometimes to be going to hell, but some places are going a little more slowly, and Flagstaff seems to be one of them. I'd like to help keep it that way." In 2009 Miguel received NAU’s distinguished professor of the year award.

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Marilyn has lived in Flagstaff for 20 years. Originally from N.Y., she also spent many years in Chicago and San Diego. She’s glad to live in a town that has the open mindedness of a big city but lots of open space, easy access to outdoor activities and a community concerned about keeping those qualities into the future. She owns Four Winds Land Surveys, Inc, a small land surveying business in town and along with many years volunteering for F³ projects she is also active in the local chapter of her professional organization. Marilyn is excited about serving on the board of F³ and combining her knowledge of growth and development issues with her commitment to sustaining a livable city with all of Flagstaff’s great qualities.

Staff

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Originally from Israel, Moran has always been involved in community activism, especially promoting peace and engaging youth in cross cultural dialogue. In 2005, after graduating with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Idaho in Conservation and Outdoor Recreation, Moran started working across the Western US for governmental, state, and grass-roots organizations, on a variety of environmental and community issues. Moran moved to Flagstaff with her husband, and daughter, in 2007, welcomed her second daughter to the world in 2009, and received her Masters in Environmental Sciences and Policy from NAU in 2010. Moran is engaged and active in many Flagstaff groups and community efforts, and is happy to call this place home.

René Kladzyk, Project Coordinator

René has long been invested in the critical issues that the Flagstaff community faces. Growing up in Flagstaff with an activist mom, she soon followed in her footsteps as an undergraduate at NAU, working with several local organizations on social justice and environmental issues. After taking two years away from school to work in the nonprofit sector in Chicago and Seattle, René pursued graduate education in Geography and Nonprofit Management at the University of Oregon. She focused her master’s research on issues of mobility and violence on the U.S./Mexico border, and has maintained strong ties to the Southwest region during her time away. Since finishing the master’s program in December, René has returned to Flagstaff, and is thrilled to be dedicating her energy to the worthy causes that F3 promotes. She also holds a part-time research position for a professor at the University of Oregon, disseminating tactile mapping software to schools for the blind, and conducting research testing. When she isn’t at the F3 office, she can be found singing jazz around town and maintaining her online vintage clothing shop.

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Born in Miami, Florida, and raised in Tucson, Cynthia has grown to love the southwest. She graduated from NAU with a B.A. in Environmental Studies with an Emphasis in Sustainability, Community and Biocultural Diversity. She has been locally active for years in Flagstaff and holds volunteer positions in the Grand Canyon Chapter of the Sierra Club and is a former AmeriCorps member with the Flagstaff Sustainability Program. She is also the Northern Arizona Field Director for the Wenona for Arizona congressional district 1 campaign.
As outreach and administrative coordinator for F³ she brings dedication to organizing and advocating for making Flagstaff a more livable community. She is the point of contact for volunteer events and internship opportunities, and is always ready to discuss the exciting F³ events around the corner!

Interns

Brian Bailey, Community Outreach Intern

Alicia Formanack, Research and Advocacy Intern

Kevin Kirchmeier, KARES Intern

Shi Li, Graphic Design Intern

Robert Stout, Research Intern

Hannah Stitzer, KARES Intern

Shaina White, Community Outreach Intern