BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Saba Malikis the liason and new member coordinator for Fertile Ground and has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2011. She studies herbal medicine and loves to spend time in the forest with her children. She identifies as a radical feminist and is passionately committed to organized political resistance.
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Dillon Thomson- Secretaryis the lead lecturer and archivist for Fertile Ground. He has been an active member of the board since its founding in 2009. Dillon's love for wildness and the diversity of life fuels his passion for resistance. He has honed his public speaking talents by lecturing for various classes at Western Washington University and along the west coast in preparation for a national tour in the fall of 2011.
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Thoren Rogers- Presidentis the morale and public relations officer for Fertile Ground and has served on the Board of Directors since 2009. Thoren holds a BA in sociology and media studies from Fairhaven College and is interested in marketing difficult subjects like anti-industrialism to a wider audience. He has lived in Bellingham, WA his entire life, where he currently resides with his wife and son. Thoren works as a manager and job coach for a local non-profit that helps people living on government subsidized income learn how to achieve and maintain permanent employment.
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Waziyatawinis a Dakota activist and scholar from the Pezihutazizi Otunwe (Yellow Medicine Village) in southwestern Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. in American history from Cornell University and currently holds the Indigenous Peoples Research Chair in the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Victoria.
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Max Wilbert- Vice PresidentMax is the Non-Profit coordinator and security officer for Fertile Ground and has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2009. His activism began in Seattle at a young age with campaigns against police brutality, racism in schools, and imperialism, then expanded to environmental issues. He has since conducted research into species extinction, oceanic collapse, global warming, and other environmental crises. In the summer of 2010, he traveled to Siberia as part of an international expedition to study and document the effects of global warming on the far north. He is trained in journalism and holds a BA in Environmental Advocacy and Communication from Huxley College.
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ADVISORY BOARD
John McLaughlin is an Associate Professor in the Environmental Sciences Department at Huxley College of the Environment. His teaching and research interests center on population ecology, wildlife ecology, and conservation biology. He holds a Doctorate in Biology from Stanford University. A partial list of his published articles can be found here.
Cameron Murphey has been an activist since his teenage years, working on feminist, social justice, and environmental issues. He was a founding member of Fertile Ground and served on the board for three years. Cameron's currently earning his PhD from the European Graduate School.
