Southwest Collaboratives Support Network
Our Participants
Alan Barton
Collaboration Program Manager
Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute
Alan Barton has studied and worked in the areas of natural resources sociology and law & policy for more than 30 years. During this time foresters have adopted principles of adaptive ecological management to create healthier forest ecosystems and have encouraged more community participation and collaboration in management decisions. As he has participated in several collaborative groups in New Mexico Alan has seen how collaborative partners can benefit by extending their collaborations to other like-minded organizations. He has worked to bring the SWCSN to life and appreciates the opportunity to engage each month with colleagues whose wealth of experience makes our peer-to-peer discussions so interesting and valuable.
Emry Cowan
Program Coordinator
Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition
I love my work at RVCC because it allows me to spend my days thinking and learning about how people can solve conservation issues in more cooperative and inclusive ways. I'm grateful to the SWCSN for the opportunity to engage with so many passionate and creative people who are thinking deeply about the intersection of social, economic and environmental aspects of this work.
Anna Murveit
Program Associate & Facilitator
My work in river basins across the West has shown me the importance of multi-stakeholder dialogues to find creative and collaborative paths forward. As a professional facilitator and as a graduate student, my area of focus is water policy, climate adaptation, and conflict resolution. I am a member of SW Cousins for professional development and support in navigating the complex and vital role of facilitating natural resource collaboratives and stakeholder engagement processes.
Stacy Beaugh
President and Co-Owner
I work with natural resource management-based collaboratives through strategic planning and facilitation, helping to lead all stakeholders involved through processes that support effective decision making and on-the-ground impact. Working on land and water issues often brings people from different value systems and philosophical perspectives together which can be challenging. Having the SW Collaborative Support Network is so useful for learning from, sharing successes and working through challenges with my peers and mentors
Lucy Moore
Mediator and Facilitator
Having worked in the conflict resolution field for almost 40 years, I am a big believer in collaboration of all kinds. Joining forces when the need or the issue first arises can help avoid or lessen bumps in the road that can lead to major conflict. Collaboration also maximizes the impact that each group can have, as in ‘the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts.’ My practice involves multi-party, multi-issue disputes that may have a multi-year life span. They often involve government agencies and tribal governments and focus on natural resource and public policy issues. I believe deeply in the right of all voices to be heard and the responsibility of decision-makers to incorporate those voices in their thinking.
Jennifer Treutelaar Nelson
Regional Partnerships Program Manager
US Forest Service
It is both a personal passion and a professional responsibility to encourage and nurture partnering and collaboration to identify and achieve shared goals. Working with Southwest Decision Resources, I led a region-wide project called “Taking Partnerships to the Next Level” that provided the spark and seed money for Arizona and New Mexico national forests to launch collaboratives with the support of co-conveners, among other outcomes. I’m working on making collaboration tools and best practices available for all employees in our region, and I support cross-pollination of collaborative efforts through participation in the SW Cousins.