Staff
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Kate Hallowell
Development and Outreach Associate
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Kate has worked for many years as an administrative assistant, most recently for the public relations department of a large, not-for-profit health care organization. She has also worked for Society Expeditions, a travel company based in Seattle. Kate has a varied background, which includes course work in veterinary science, a master's degree in fine arts from the University of Florida, and working for many years as a professional actress. Having moved from Seattle, she is now pursuing an old passion — predators and wilderness. Kate joined PCA in June 2004.
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Janelle Holden
Executive Director
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For the past three years Janelle has directed the Range Riders Project, a community-based collaborative project in Southwest Montana to reduce conflicts between wolves and livestock through human presence and other non-lethal techniques. Janelle grew up on a cattle ranch along Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front, and has a B.A. in English and Political Science from Hillsdale College. Prior to working in conservation, she was an award-winning environmental and public lands reporter. She has also worked for two U.S. Senators and has directed both local and international political campaigns. Janelle joined PCA’s staff in 2003 as the Coexisting with Predators Program Director. She now also serves on Montana’s Natural Resource Conservation Service’s technical advisory committee, and Montana’s state wolf compensation working group.
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Steve Primm, M.A.
Program Associate
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Steve has worked since 1992 on large carnivore conservation projects. He has mainly focused on grizzly conservation in the U. S. Rockies, ranging from participatory conservation to field research and proactive conflict resolution in the backcountry. Since 1996, Steve has lived and worked in southwest Montana's Madison Valley. His work there addresses the challenges of co-existence between local people and the grizzlies that are recolonizing the Gravelly Mountains. Steve's work in the Gravellies bridges the theory and practice of local participation, while also providing him with plenty of satisfying hands-on work in the field. Steve collaborated with Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks on the development of their Grizzly Bear Management Plan for Southwestern Montana, which promotes participatory approaches to dealing with the expansion of grizzlies into their historic habitat. Steve earned his master's degree in Environmental Policy at the University of Colorado. He has published academic articles on carnivore conservation and ecosystem management in journals like Conservation Biology, Policy Sciences, and Ursus.
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Shari Sutherland
Director of Individual Giving
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Shari received a B.A. Degree in Geography from Middlebury College. Shari has 17 years of nonprofit fundraising experience, and served as the Membership Director for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition for 11 years. Shari enjoys nothing more than being out hiking with her faithful Labrador and friends, hoping to see (from a distance!) one of the wild creatures we are working to protect!
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Seth Wilson is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Government from St. Lawrence University, a Master’s Degree in Science from the Environmental Studies Program and a Ph.D. from the College of Forestry and Conservation at the University of Montana. He is past-vice president of the Montana Student Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology and recently taught Applied Ecology at the University of Montana in 2004. His research focuses on large-carnivore conservation, policy, human-wildlife conflict, landscape-scale conservation, and conservation planning on private lands. He is currently working on a multi-year research project involving a community-supported conservation plan to reduce human-grizzly bear conflicts and bear mortality on private agricultural land in Montana. His work in the Blackfoot Valley, Montana is an emerging example of a community-based conservation effort involving a threatened species (grizzly bears). Seth is spending 100 percent of his time on grizzly bear conservation in the Blackfoot Valley.
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Our staff draws from an eclectic background in fundraising,
environmental studies,
community outreach,
backcountry law enforcement,
accounting,
environmental law,
adventure tourism,
and
environmental
education -
all for the common purpose of saving a place for America's predators.
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