SYRCL Team Directory
Administration

Aaron Zettler-Mann
Executive Director
Aaron grew up swimming and playing in the creeks and rivers near his coastal home in a small town in Humboldt County. Predictably, he found his way to working as a raft guide. He was a raft guide on rivers throughout the Sierra Nevada for nearly ten years.
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Andrea Mason
Finance & Administration Director
Andrea, a Nevada County resident since birth, joined our team in October 2017. Having worked in accounting offices since she was 18, Andrea found she had a natural affinity for numbers and appreciated the orderliness which only a cleanly balanced set of books can produce.
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Jessica Haro
Executive Assistant
Her Latino father taught her that people are very different and the importance of embracing those differences. At the age of 20, Jessica decided to explore the world, learn English fluently, and move to San Francisco. There she worked in the medical tech industry as a CEO assistant and a project manager before she relocated to Grass Valley six years ago.
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Carol Fassino
Human Resource & Accounting Specialist
Carol is a long time Nevada County resident and has many years of experience in both finance and human resources. Carol enjoys the outdoors and spending time on her mini farm where a lot of her pets are “second-hand animals”. Most notable are her five large African Spurred Thigh Sulcata tortoises.
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Julie Pokrandt
Development Director
After graduate school, Julie became the first executive director for a wildlife rehabilitation group in San Diego. There she saw first-hand how devastating habitat loss can be, especially for raptors and songbirds.
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Katy White
Development Associate
Born and raised in the Midwest, Katy’s love for the outdoors formed while exploring the woods, creeks, and trails near her home in Indiana. This passion for wild places only amplified after a cross-country move to Missoula, MT where she received her M.A. in Public Administration from the University of Montana.
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Tony LeVeaux
Membership Assistant
Tony grew up Arizona. There he was immersed in the natural deserts of the Southwest. A creative, he felt at home with local artists and actors. A self-proclaimed science nerd, he was always attracted to natural sciences, eating up Earth Science and Biology courses with pleasure.
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Alecia Weisman
Watershed Science Director
Growing up in North Georgia and Florida, Alecia had an eventful childhood full of creek hikes and beach visits. Her love for water has been a central theme in her life.
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Kat Perlman
North Yuba Forest Project Manager
Kat hails from north Georgia, where she grew up exploring the lush and vibrant forests of the Piedmont with her family and friends. She attended the University of Georgia and earned her BS in Wildlife Biology in 2011, where she focused her undergraduate studies on field and tropical ornithology.
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Sebastian Ma’a
Forest Conservation Project Manager
Prior to joining the SYRCL team, Sebastian worked as a Biocultural Forester where he guided complex vegetation removal projects and coordinated large-scale invasive vegetation control operations across more than 110,000 acres; forest health monitoring and surveys; and native species out planting and ongoing maintenance. He also supported the care of some of Hawai’i’s most treasured landscapes, historic places, and other culturally sensitive areas.
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Anne Marie Holt
Forest Conservation Project Manager
Anne Marie grew up in nearby Auburn and developed a love of the outdoors from a young age with the local river and mountains as her playground.
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Danielle Conway
Fisheries Restoration Program Manager
A California local, Danielle spent much of her time as she grew up exploring the Sierra Nevada foothills and mountains. The flora and fauna that inhabited these wild spaces inspired her to pursue a career in wildlife biology.
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Kyle McNeil
Ecohydrologist
Kyle grew up in the suburbs of Ventura County, CA. He moved to Davis for his undergraduate studies at UC Davis where he studies Environmental Science & Management.
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Summer Driscoll
Botany Technician
Summer grew up in beautiful, wild Humboldt County swimming in the rivers or hiking in the redwood forest. Her passion for nature ignited, she went to UC Santa Cruz to study plant science.
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Abby Messe
River Monitoring Coordinator
Abby grew up in Oak Park, a town in Ventura County, California where she spent much of her childhood exploring the outdoors.
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Advocacy, Communications, Outreach, & Education

Daniel Elkin
Communications & Engagement Director
Daniel became our Communications and Engagement Director in 2022. He has lived in Nevada County for over two decades, spending the majority of that time in education, having been a high school English teacher and school director.
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Monique Streit
Education Director
Growing up in Grand Canyon National Park, Monique’s connection to nature was cultivated at a young age by exploring the forest and canyon that lay outside her backdoor.
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Traci Sheehan
Policy Manager
Originally from the East Coast, Traci’s love of the water began with her summers spent on the beach and in the ocean. She moved to California from Washington, DC, to help stop the proposed Auburn dam. Traci led a campaign to designate Wild and Scenic rivers and Wilderness in California. She has worked on state legislation and water issues with the Planning and Conservation League.
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Maddie Davis
Community Engagement Manager
Maddie grew up in Nevada County and spent her formative years exploring the Yuba Watershed and visiting the vast natural landscapes of California.
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Rose Ledford
Science and Education Project Manager
Rose grew up in the desert of southern California, mesmerized by the diversity in her backyard. She graduated from Sonoma State with degrees in Earth Science and Liberal Studies, as well as a minor in Geology. Her infectious curiosity and excitement for the natural world makes her a great educator and driven advocate for the natural wonders of the Sierra Nevada.
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Caitlin Martin
Education and Outreach Coordinator
Caitlin spent her childhood in the desert of Washington state rolling down hills, playing in the snow, and learning about salmon in her fifth grade year and has been a California resident ever since, getting to enjoy all the wonders this beautiful state has to offer. As a child, she loved any chance to hike, camp, kayak, play in the water and explore with her family.
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Lívia Campos de Menezes
Film Festival Director
Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, Lívia is passionate about films and their power to raise awareness for issues that matter. Having a bachelor’s in International Relations and a master’s in History, she spent 6 years working in operations and market research before pivoting her career to work in the film industry.
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Eric Dunn
Film Festival Operations Director
Growing up in the Midwest, Eric’s love of nature and waterways was established early at a summer camp with a focus on extended wilderness tripping in the north woods.
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Jaimie des Tombe
On Tour Sales Manager
Jaimie is a lifelong resident of the Yuba Watershed, and has lived on a canyon high above the South Fork of the Yuba for most of her adult life. The Yuba has always been the center of her community in one way or another, and she brings her deep gratitude for this to her work. Jaimie is ever passionate about the protection of local cultural and natural resources, and is thrilled to work with an organization that shares her values.
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Rebecca Walters
On Tour Coordinator
Rebecca is the On Tour Coordinator for the Wild and Scenic Film Festival. She received her BFA in filmmaking from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. As a social impact filmmaker, coordinator, guest artist, festival agent, and programmer she has worked for the Sundance Institute, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Cucalorus Film Foundation, and Stowe Story Labs.
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Kira Greene
Wild & Scenic Film Festival Coordinator
Although Kira was born and raised in Northern California, she has found herself at home in many watersheds around the world. Abroad, she was inspired by the diversity of ecosystems and human cultures and documented them through the camera lens as a primary mode of study. As much as she longs to continue to travel, she has become deeply satisfied by her deepening relationship with the land she lives on now, on Wolf Creek.
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Lorrie Poch
Wild & Scenic Film Festival Logistics Coordinator
Lorrie is excited to return as the Wild & Scenic Film Festival Logistics Coordinator
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