board of directors & trustees

Richard was a Senior Executive with Accenture, a global management consulting and technology services company. He retired from Accenture in 2006 after a 15 year career.  Prior to Accenture, he worked in financial services industry. He has a BA in Economics from the University of North Carolina and an MBA from UCLA. Richard and his wife Lynn have been visiting Telluride since the late 80’s and have been living here full-time since 2004.  Richard is pursuing his passion in travel, environmental and life style photography.  http://www.richcorneliusphoto.com

Robert Weatherford has been painting in Telluride since 1977. Originally from Laredo, Texas, he obtained a Masters in Painting from Claremont Graduate Art School in California and a Masters in Systematic Theology from Union Seminary in New York. He loves to go boarding in the bumps and helping to make our gallery shows the best they can be. He regularly teaches a painting class focused on telling our individual stories in paint. His paintings are represented at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art.

Born and raised in Telluride (actually born at the clinic in Telluride), Danny Craft is the Senior Vice President at Alpine Bank in Telluride, Colorado. He is also on the Board of the Telluride Historical Museum and has a vested interest in this community. Danny graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in Economics and then attended the Graduate School of Banking in Madison, Wisconsin.

Kathy Green is the owner of BONE construction. In 2008, Kathy was selected as Citizen of the Year, due to her extraordinary community efforts. The Telluride Foundation created its Citizen of the Year award in 2003 to honor San Miguel County residents who make remarkable and unselfish contributions to the region. In addition to serving on Ah Haa’s Board of Directors, Kathy has served on the Telluride Planning & Zoning Commission since 1983. She is also involved in the Telluride Ecology Commission, Streetscapes Taskforce, Traffic Calming Taskforce and is on the board for the The New Community Coalition.

Sara Chaffin is a multi-media artist, living in Telluride. Her awards include the Virginia Museum of Fine Art’s Foundation Graduate fellowship, Peter S. Reed foundation Grant, Atlantic Center for the Art’s Residency, State University of New York Graduate Grant, and two Anderson Ranch Field Expedition Paris scholarships (France and Jamaica). She has also been nominated for Outstanding Student Achievement award by The International Sculpture Center.  At Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass, Colorado, Sara has worked in painting, printmaking and collage. In addition, she has assisted distinguished artists such as Judy Pfaff (MacArthur Fellow), John Buck, and Buzz Spector on installation’s and print projects. Her work is based in site installation, 3D sculpture and drawing. Sara was born and raised in Colorado.

Lisa Hogan brings 20 years of experience in community education across many countries to her work with not-for-profits. Lisa established early HIV/AIDS curriculum for English language university students in EU countries with the AIDS League Antwerpen, teaching in Belgium and the Netherlands. She worked with NGO groups in Ghana in small business mentoring programs for women in Accra, and community healthcare clinics for the Mother and Child Foundation. Lisa helped to organize fund-raising and awareness campaigns for SafeHands, a London-based charity devoted to safe childbirth practices and the reduction of obstetric fistula incidence, FGM and child-marriage in North Africa.  She worked as an education grants consultant in Zurich, Switzerland for UBS Optimus Foundation, researching and reviewing proposals for funding.

Lisa pursued graduate studies at the London School of Economics-University of London in Globalization and Development, and received her M.Ed. in Education Technology at the University of Michigan.

Lisa currently serves on the boards of the Amazon Aid Foundation and Computers4Kids, Charlottesville, and on the Board for Institutional Advancement, University Lake School, Milwaukee. She volunteers with Special Olympics of Virginia and is a mentor for Computers4Kids in Charlottesville.

Artist and mother, Aela Morgan divides her time between Telluride and New York City.

Diane Linen Powell is a marketing and communications specialist whose professional career spans disciplines in local radio, cable television marketing, network radio and television, Internet, broadcast property sales, trade associations, and publishing. Ms. Powell is currently a professional consultant and private investor. Her husband, Ned,  recently retired as the CEO of the USO, and Diane and Ned have spent the past many years traveling extensively around the world. Their second home sits aside a waterfall in Telluride, Colorado.

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