Good Dirt Radio™ Board

The GDR board is comprised of seven members. Here's some dirt on who we are:

Gary Lewin
Tom Bartels
Ron Margolis
Jude Terry
Nancy Jacques
David Wegner

Gary Lewin » Board Chair, Sound Engineer, Co-owner of Cosmix Sound Studio, Story Crafter
lewin@frontier.net

Gary sank roots in Durango, Colorado in 1978. A Real Estate Broker for 30 years, Gary owns and operates Good Deeds! Real Estate, has 2 grown sons and is a musician and builder. Having started playing the at the age of 10, he is a song-writer whose interests have evolved into a unique, solar heated and powered recording facility, Cosmix Sound. Always a lover of the natural world, Gary has long been engaged in environmental concerns. With the deteriorating state of the world, he has become more involved by choosing media as a way to promote positive solutions to deeply rooted, but solvable, problems in an effort to help create change for a more sustainable future.

Tom Bartels » Co-host, Media Specialist, Engineer, Editor, Board Vice-Chair, Story Crafter
rhp@frontier.net

Tom has lived in Durango, CO since 1983. Originally from Wisconsin, Tom received his communications degree from Fort Lewis College. He worked in video production, cable television and radio through the 80's and 90's, producing several environmental education pieces including 'environmental ethics,' sustainable architecture and Spirit of the Southwest, a program on preservation of the wilderness and historical cultures of the Southwest. He is presently filling his time with multi-media production in Durango.

Ron Margolis » Board Member, Story Crafter
margolis@ecoisp.com

Ron is a lover of wildness and the earth. He is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, and previously worked for environmental concerns as an attorney. He views himself as an educator and activist in the movement for a new, more conscious, more caring, and more just world. He works with youth on such issues as values, meaning, and life purpose. He works with his hands installing ceramic tile and stone. He has mediated conflicts and has acted as a consultant in many different capacities. He is the founder of People of Conscience, a group dedicated to empowering citizens to take positive action to help birth a better world for both people and our planet.

Jude Terry » Co-owner of Cosmix Sound Studio, Board Secretary/Treasurer, Story Crafter
emote@animas.net

Jude operates a private practice as a licensed psychotherapist in Durango, CO. She has 24 years of experience in human services, combining training in the fields of psychology, education and recreational therapy with years of nutritional work in bringing a comprehensive view of wellness to her craft. Jude has years of hands-on involvement with natural food cooperatives, local recycling & environmental-awareness efforts and social-advocacy. Her professional mission is to inspire insight and action in supporting positive change, to assist others in sculpting lives of increased balance and accord. This, too, is the essence of Jude’s environmental focus.

Nancy Jacques » Board member, Story Crafter
ncjacques@bresnan.net

Writer and publisher for Raven's Eye Press, in Durango, Nancy Jacques brought her background in the arts, education and social services to the environmental field more than a decade ago. A dedicated enthusiast for biological diversity, Nancy founded Friends of the Animas River and Colorado Rivers Alliance in the early 1990's, and now works with Ecosystems Management International on watershed and endangered species issues. As result of seeing firsthand throughout the world how peoples' choices of lifestyles in the industrial north affect the planet, Nancy wrote The Heartcore Alternative: Reinterpreting Our Relationships to Each Other and Earth in a Global Age, published in 2001, and writes a newspaper column on Living Simply for the Durango Herald.

David Wegner » Board Member

Dave has been an environmental scientist since the 1970's, focusing on endangered species and habitat issues on a landscape level. He works on environmental issues across the USA, and internationally, focusing on the use of science to develop collaborative approaches to solving ecosystem level problems. As an educator and environmental activist Dave spends time lecturing, testifying in Congress, and working with legislative staffs at the state and national level. He has received numerous commendations for public service, including recognition from the National Research Council, and is a recipient of the DOI’s Resource Management Award.

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