Tahnee Robertson, Director
Tahnee has worked on natural resource management, watershed protection, and agricultural and community development issues in the U.S., as well as internationally, for more than 15 years. Twelve of these years have been focused on facilitating collaborative processes involving natural resource management.
Based in Tucson, Arizona, she currently works as a professional facilitator and mediator providing assessment, facilitation, mediation and process design services for community development and natural resource management efforts primarily in the southwestern U.S.
Prior to her move to Tucson, Tahnee served as the Associate Director of the Program on Environment and Community at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) for six years. Her work at Cornell included capacity building, process design, facilitation, research and other assistance in collaborative processes in a range of natural resource management projects in the northeastern U.S. and in Central America.
Tahnee received her Bachelor’s in Biology
from Grinnell College and her Masters in Natural Resources from
Cornell University. She is currently a member of the Roster of
Environmental Conflict Resolution Practitioners managed by the U.S.
Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution.
Jenny Ferry, Facilitator
Jenny has professional facilitation experience on several State and/or Federally-funded projects across the state of Arizona. She has participated as a project team member for the community landscape visioning effort currently underway in the vicinity of the Prescott National Forest. She has also taken part in a Federal-State collaboration to minimize the environmental impact of grazing on Arizona State Trust Lands involving multi-stakeholders from rural areas throughout the state.
Jenny has been actively involved in academia for the last 10 years, most recently at The University of Arizona. As a college instructor, she taught the lab portion of a Natural Resources Economics & Planning course where the primary teaching topics included decision-making methods and tools, plus the use of decision-making software for public lands management, with a special emphasis on National Forests.
Jenny received her Bachelor's in Economics summa cum laude from Northern Arizona University. She holds a Master's in Higher Education from The University of Arizona where she was also a Ph.D. candidate in Natural Resources Studies.
Todd Gaston, Intern
A 2006 University of Arizona graduate in Environmental Science, Todd has an abiding interest in public lands management issues and in collaborative approaches to natural resources decision making. At SDR, Todd serves in numerous capacities – meeting recording, small group facilitation, content analysis, survey development, process observer, logistics assistant, and overall excellent team member.