Board of Directors LAURA MERINO
President Laura has over ten years of experience in marketing, PR, and communications. She has a strong knowledge in digital marketing, content distribution, and loves helping clients grow their business. For the last eight-and-a-half years, Laura has worked in the outdoor industry in roles like Associate Media Director, where she was responsible for full funnel media planning strategies and Account Director and Senior Strategist where she has worked on developing and implementing brand strategy. One of her greatest passions is working with storytellers and filmmakers to ensure that their stories are being seen by as many people as possible. She believes that film has the power to move people and spark change.
LINDSEY HAGEN Vice President Lindsey is an Executive Producer and emerging Director canvassing the film market across branded documentary work, cause related filmmaking, and commercial production. She spends her time amidst the mountains and the sea and comes from a background in journalism, marketing, sales and non-profit start-ups. Lindsey’s passion is creating cause related films and pursuing topics she feels need a podium. She believes as storytellers we have a responsibility to share truth, while creating opportunity for the voices seldom heard, and advocating for the changes we want to see in our world.
ROGER HENNEFELD Treasurer Roger, along with his wife Carrie and 2 daughters, moved to the Roaring Fork Valley in 1998 after he completed business school at CU. Roger knows everyone needs the spiritual uplift that being in nature brings and feels that this great social event and film festival is the perfect facilitator.
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MEGAN BOURKE
Megan is a 50-year-young local who moved to the valley at the ripe and ski-ripping age of 3. She has a passion for dogs, photography and health. A seasoned ski pro and trainer, Bourke spent 25 years working for Aspen Skiing Company. Previously educated in Wyoming, Boulder and NYC, she now spends 7 months a year in Aspen and the other 5 months in Maine. The outdoors and giving back to the communities in which she resides are her favorite past times.
FITZ CAHALL Co-founder and Creative Director at Duct Tape Then Beer, Fitz started his career as a true dirtbag writer / naked subsistence hunter. He has an appreciation for fine (not-that-fine) beers, behavioral economics, his rad wife and two sons, and helping others realize their creativity.
CONNOR P. COLEMAN After a childhood filled with family vacations to countless state and national parks, Connor embarked on a career in non-profit land conservation sprinkled with stints as a wildland firefighter, wildlife biologist, and some time spent playing cowboy. He now works with landowners across the West to sustainably manage their land while residing outside of Carbondale.
ANN DRIGGERS Ann is a weekend warrior and backcountry bon vivant who lives to ride, run, ski and paddle in the great outdoors. Originally from the UK, she met her husband Chad while hitchhiking. Now a Carbondale local, she is most often found on trail with her Jack Russell Terrier, Scooter.
