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Kenneth Baldwin is a California Registered Professional Forester with 40 years of forestry experience, the past 33 in the forests of northern California. He has been involved in land and resource management planning, fire and fuels management planning, timber sale planning and preparation, watershed and environmental analysis, fire damage appraisals, forest inventory and design, stocking and survival surveying, reforestation, fire control, trail maintenance, logging, lumber and veneer milling, forest recreation, forest research, forest worker training, forestry and environmental advocacy, and fisheries restoration. He worked as a seasonal employee for the U.S. Forest Service from 1964 to 1976 and after that as a contractor/consultant for the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Natural Resources Conservation Service, two Resource Conservation Districts, Trinity Resource Conservation & Development Council, Hayfork Watershed Research and Training Center, Institute for Sustainable Forestry, SmartWood, various religious and non-profit organizations, and private landowners.

Marko Bey is a co-founder of the Lomakatsi Restoration Project and is the Director of Operations and Contract Administrator. He supervises work crews and serves the organization as one of the core planners and designers for the development and implementation of ecological restoration programs and projects. Prior to co-founding Lomakatsi in 1995, Marko spent 8 years working on forestry contract crews on federal land contracts as a member of the mobile workforce where he worked in over six different Western states as a lead laborer, inspector, agency liaison, and crew boss. He has over two decades of experience in grassroots community organizing as well as in the field of ecosystem management and restoration ecology, with a wide range of on the ground expertise in watershed and riparian restoration, oak woodland restoration, reforestation, restoration forestry, fuels reduction, technical work, and developing and directing worker training programs. He has co-managed contracts and cooperative agreements with many federal agencies, non-profit organizations, and private landowners. Marko lives with his family in the southern Cascades between Ashland and Klamath Falls.

Santiago Calzada has been a forest worker since 1973. He has had various forest jobs planting trees, thinning, piling brush, fire protection, all phases of restoration and generally all phases of forest work. Born in Apozol, Zacatecas Mexico, he now lives in Medford, Oregon. He is the proud father of five children and grandfather to four. He has a lifelong history of helping people. He has been an active member of the Alliance for four years, participating in a forest worker forum in Eugene, Oregon as well as representing the Alliance at Week in Washington meeting with officials and presenting forest worker views from his unique perspective.

Kimberly Dawn Davis-Pike is a Native American member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe. She has been working for the Hoopa Tribal Forestry Department for almost six years. While working for Hoopa Tribal Forestry she has done work in the Timber, Silviculture, and Planning departments. She also spent one summer working with wildlife. For the past two years she has been working as the Hoopa Tribal Forestry Botanist doing botanical surveys for the upcoming timber sale areas. Most recently she also started supervising and overseeing the Hoopa Tribal Forestry Nursery operations. She holds a BS in Botany with a minor in Forestry from Humboldt State University, and has gone through Basic 32 Fire Training.

Wayne Fitzpatrick received an AAS Degree in Forest Technology in 1975 and has been doing forest work ever since. He has worked with government agencies, co-ops, and private contractors in fighting fires, reforestation, silviculture, tree planting, and studying the growth patterns and habits. Wayne’s deepest concern is ensuring workers’ livelihood through the practice of sustainable forestry.

Cece Headley started working in the woods as a tree-planter in 1978. She was a member of the Hoedads cooperative throughout the 1980s. Today she works on technical forestry surveys contracted through the Forest Service. Cece became involved with the Alliance because of her belief that workers can impact the conditions of their work by working together. One of her main objectives in working with the Alliance is a sense of duty to empower other forest workers and create opportunities for folks who see working in the forest as their life’s work.

Luna Latimer is a fifth generation forest worker from Southern Oregon. She currently lives in Orleans, CA, and works for the Mid Klamath Watershed Council. She received a Master’s degree in Applied Anthropology from Oregon State University with a focus on forest restoration projects on private land within the middle Klamath. Luna works with private landowners, agencies, contractors and non-profit organizations to restore both upslope and in-stream ecosystems.

Pam Tau Lee is a founding member of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network and is the environmental justice program coordinator at the Center for Environmental and Occupational Health Center at the School of Public Health, U.C. Berkeley. She has been active in environmental health issues for two decades. Her experience began while doing community work in San Francisco Chinatown (open air, housing, TB), worker occupational health followed by involvement in national environmental justice issues and policy work. She is nationally recognized for her work in applying participatory action research methods. She was the field director for two major studies in San Francisco and Las Vegas researching the health of hotel workers. These studies led to significant changes regarding workload and work organization issues for hotel employees. She is currently working in partnership with a community based organization, public health department, and university researchers to study the socio-economic and worker health and safety issues of immigrant restaurant workers in San Francisco. She helped initiate the Working Immigrant Safety and Health Coalition in California. Ms. Lee has been appointed to terms on the National Environmental Justice Advisory Committee subcommittees on public participation and enforcement. She currently serves on the National Occupational Research Agenda Liaison Committee. This is a program of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.

Denise Smith served as the Executive Director of Alliance of Forest Workers and Harvesters from 2003 until April 2009. During her tenure she focused on outreach and organizing with multicultural forest workers and harvesters, education of labor laws and worker rights, environmental sustainability and monitoring, supporting social and economic justice for the people on the ground in the woods. Under Denise’s leadership, the organization matured to have an effective voice in the decisions that shape the everyday realities of forest workers and harvesters. She gained the respect and admiration of our membership, constituency of workers and harvesters and other grassroots folks and organizations. From Latino contract forest workers, to SE Asian and other race mushroom harvesters, to Native American NTFP cultural harvesters, she is recognized as someone who is always accessible, willing and able to address their needs and concerns.