Sarah Hanson- Executive Director 

Sarah has been working as a land steward for 25 years.  She directed trail and wilderness restoration crews for Student Conservation Association, Pacific Crest Trail Association and Washington Trails Association. She has been a WWOOFer in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Italy and Senegal, learning organic gardening techniques, and is a certified permaculture designer.  She resides on San Juan County's Agricultural Resources Committee.  Sarah was program director for the San Juan Island Conservation Corps for 5 seasons, working with public lands agencies, local non-profits and Coast Salish tribes.  She has a B.S. in Geology/Geophysics from Western Washington University, moonlights as a healer, writer, sailor, Do It Yourself tinkerer, and has studied indigenous healing with the Q’ero tribe in the high Andes of Peru, earning an HLB certificate from the Four Winds Society.  She is currently studying and teaching the ways of the Celts, her ancestors.

Jenny Shrum - Island Marble Butterfly Program Director

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​Jenny has been a biologist, and professional stalker of wild critters for over two decades. She came to San Juan Island to work for the National Park Service seven year ago.  During that time, she has had the unique fortune to follow (sometimes chase!) the island marble butterfly in both natural and laboratory settings.  In the process she has learned as much about pollinators as she has about herself.  She is currently working as a contractor with the US Fish&Wildlife Service to boost survival rates, and improve habitat quality so that the species can persist for decades to come.​