Protecting 1.8 million acres of our country’s best slickrock
From petrified wood and dinosaur fossils to arches and slot canyons, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is an incredible trove of...
Working together to find solutions
Collaboration. Sometimes frustrating, often complicated, and always arduous, collaboration requires working with seeming adversaries to stake out a small patch of...
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Meet the faces of the Grand Canyon Trust.
Darcy started with the Trust in June 1995 coordinating and implementing the Membership Program. Since that time, Darcy has grown her position to include administrative affairs, personnel benefits,...
Ethan grew up in Flagstaff, exploring the canyon country of northern Arizona since childhood. Ethan left the Southwest to attend Swarthmore College before feeling the strong pull of deserts,...
Frankie started her Northern Arizona University degree in music journalism in 2010 but soon discovered that her passions lie in grassroots advocacy and local and regional politics. Through her...
Ashley returned home to Flagstaff and joined the Trust in 2014, excited to put her experience in grassroots organizing, communications, public relations, and social media management to work sharing...
Cerissa left behind a cubicle-bound career and moved out West to work with her hands in the dirt re-establishing native plants on Mount Tamalpais. After several years of working in the environmental...
Claire Martini was the AmeriCorps Citizen Science Volunteer Coordinator as well as the UPLIFT Coordinater for the Trust. She has a B.A. in Geology from Whitman College. After her first taste of the...