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Jennifer Kirkpatrick Santry
Executive Director
jen@highcountryconservation.org
Focus Areas: Master Mountain Composter, Composting in the Schools, Sustainable Food Programs, Summit County Food Policy Council, Website Development and Maintenance, Marketing, E-Newsletter Production, Main Media Contact
When she’s not up to her elbows in worm poop, Jen is happy in her garden or on the trail with her pup, Otis, and her hubby, Judd. She's been an avid composter for seven years and has high hopes of someday starting a backyard homestead and worm farm. Jen graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BA in Zoology and minor in Anthropology. After chasing monkeys and apes in the jungles of Thailand, Panama, and West Africa, she realized her passions for conservation. She found herself working as an environmental educator in New Mexico and Alabama, finally settling in Summit County in 2004. Shortly after, Jen volunteered with HC3, planting and watering the compost garden at the old Frisco recycling center. She joined the HC3 Board in 2007 and the staff in 2008. Jen completed her Master’s of Nonprofit Management from Regis University in 2007 and feels quite content in the nonprofit world. She loves Santa Fe, Ansel Adam snapshots, travel, backpacking, forest hammocks, big dogs, and a good margarita(s).

Erin Makowsky
Waste Reduction Coordinator
erin@highcountryconservation.org
Focus Areas: Waste Reduction Programs, Classroom Education, Zero Heroes and Zero Waste Programs, Climate Change Programs & Colorado Carbon Fund, Certified Recycling Volunteer Program, and Garbage Garage Education Center
Erin joined HC3 in March of 2010. She discovered her passion for resource conservation at a young age through the influence of her parents, and it became her vocational focus while attending the University of Vermont where she spent two years conducting a feasibility analysis of mobile home deconstruction. After leaving Vermont in search of bigger mountains, she landed in Boulder where she worked for the non-profit recycling and resource conservation pioneer, Eco-Cycle. As Eco-Cycle's Zero Waste Services Coordinator, Erin assisted different types of businesses in dramatically reducing their waste stream by setting up unique collections for non-traditional recyclables, conducting educational training sessions, getting down and dirty during waste audits, and much much more. While she holds a special place in her heart for working with the commercial sector, she realizes that it takes participation from all different sectors in order for a community to reach their waste reduction goals. You can often find her starting her day with a good cup of joe, skiing, biking, petting her barrel chested border collie, or eating thinly sliced vintage Vermont cheddar cheese in the afternoons, and playing a good ol' fashioned game of wooden pick-up sicks by night.

Jennifer "Jenny" Stein
Administrative Assistant
jenny@highcountryconservation.org
Focus Areas: Eartha's Green Shop, Summit Freecycle Moderator, Volunteer Coordination, Social Media Outreach, and Summit Sustainable Building Code Administrator
Jenny joined the Conservation Center in January 2010. She's lived in Summit County for 12 years. Jenny graduated from CU Boulder with a BA in Environmental Studies and is currently working on a MAS from DU in Natural Resource Management and a certification in GIS. After volunteering for multiple non-profits over the years, Jenny is excited to finally be working for one in her own community! She loves local food, is trying to grow some of her own, and is looking forward to finally learning to compost. When not at work or in school, which doesn’t leave much, she enjoys spending time outside with good friends camping, climbing, hiking, biking, and just enjoying beautiful Colorado.

Jon Kinstad
Energy Program Manager
jon@highcountryconservation.org
Focus Areas: Energy Audits, Building Science Consulting & Training, Green Building E-Newsletter, Local Energy Star & GEO Programs Contact, Building Code & Efficient Building Advisory Group
Jon has been certified as a Home Performance with Energy Star Contractor, Home Performance Analyst by the Building Performance Institute and has been trained as a Home Energy Rater. He believes in living by example and hopes to inspire others with his commitment to a simple and sustainable life. His mantra of “Do more with less” reminds him to not be absorbed into the consumer lifestyle of consumption without conscious. He’s been experimenting with growing his own food and brewing his own biodiesel. Jon continues his residential energy efficiency study on his own home, a 120+ year old “shot gun shack on “Chicken Hill” in Leadville. He believes that a home, the single largest purchase of your life, should not have the biggest negative impact on the planet. Jon is an Aries, when he’s not working he enjoys self propelled recreation such as skinny back country skiing, mountain biking, and being in the middle of nowhere, as far away from somewhere as he can get.

Lynne Westerfield
Community Energy Coordinator
lynne@highcountryconservation.org
Focus Areas: Sustainable Energy Community Plan, Contact for GEO Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Programs for Region 13 (Summit, Park, & Lake)
Lynne received her Bachelor’s degree from Colorado College and her Masters degree from the University of Idaho, where she went on to write grants and develop programs for the University of Idaho’s McCall Field Campus and Outdoor Science School. Lynne has put aside a more nomadic life that included working for the National Outdoor Leadership School and guiding rafts in North, Central and South America to pursue energy efficiency with High County Conservation. Having grown up in a family of economists, Lynne has always been fascinated with entrepreneurialism. She believes that true entrepreneurs invest in local capacity, maximize efficiency with natural resources, and transform conventional notions of profit. In addition to her dedication to viable energy solutions, people most often comment on her ability to make cowboy toast on campstoves at river put-ins, bake pizza, skate on alpine lakes, read classics, boat in any human-powered river craft (including duckies), walk with gaiters on, and perform all the dance moves in Thriller.

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|| HC3 Job Opportunities

We're hiring a part time Park County Energy Efficiency - Renewable Energy (EERE) Coordinator. The 1/2 time position will promote the EERE programs in Park County and will be funded by a two year ARRA grant.

Download the Park County EERE Coordinator Job Description HERE

Application: Please send a Cover Letter, Resume, and Writing Sample to jen@highcountryconservation.org by Monday, March 8th.