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CEC staff | CEC board | CEC mission | CEC history In three field offices across Colorado, CEC has 19 staff members working to protect our state's wild places and open spaces. Please contact any one of us for more information about how you can get involved! For general information, e-mail info@cecenviro.org Executive Director (303) 405-6704 Denver Operations and Finance Director (303) 405-6708 Denver Online Communications Coordinator/Circuit Rider (303) 405-6713 Denver Water Caucus Coordinator (303) 405-6714 Denver Program Director (303) 405-6709 Denver MIS/Circuit Rider (303) 405-6711 Denver West Slope Field Director (970) 243-0002 Grand Junction Administrative Director (303) 405-6701 Denver Field Inventory Director/Public Lands Organizer (303) 405-6702 Denver Northwest Organizer (970) 824-5241 Craig Elise Jones, Executive Director. Elise joined CEC in October 1999, bringing with her a wealth of experience and knowledge gained as the Regional Director for the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund's Rocky Mountain Office, and the Senior Environmental Legislative Aide for U.S. Representative Elizabeth Furse (D-OR). Elise was a lobbyist for the National Wildlife Federation, has a Masters in Natural Resources Policy from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in Natural Resources from Cornell University. Elise is also very accomplished away from her desk as a national ultimate Frisbee competitor and avid backpacker. Her latest challenge is telemark skiing, which we're all sure she'll master in just a season or two. Amy Thoe, Finance & Operations Director. Amy joined CEC in January 2010, fulfilling a long-time dream to move to Denver and work in environmentalism. She started her career in the arts and worked for 10 years in theatre general management after receiving her BA in 2000 from University of WI-Stevens Point in Arts Management. Highlights of her theatre career involve working on the workshop of Duncan Sheik’s Nightengale and coordinating the creative contracts for the original Jersey Boys production at La Jolla Playhouse. More recently, Amy switched out of theatre and into nonprofit capacity building at Volunteer San Diego where she was Director of Finance for 2 years. Amy is a native of Wisconsin where she grew up in a woodsy town of 800 people. She is an avid runner, nonfiction reader and basically worships the outdoors. Becky Long, Water Organizer.
Beka Wilson, Development Director. An Iowa native and a graduate of Humboldt State University’s International Studies & French programs, Beka relocated to Colorado in mid-2004 just in time to start organizing and raising funds to pass FasTracks and Amendment 37. Working first as a canvasser and then as a campus organizer, she was thrilled to supervise two winning campaigns to purchase wind and solar energy for Colorado universities. Prior to joining CEC in January 2010, Beka spent four years as a fundraiser for NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado, where she oversaw the annual Choice Celebration & Auction, one of the largest in the country. Beka looks forward to raising funds to protect the beautiful Colorado landscapes she has come to love through camping, climbing and hiking adventures.
Carrie Curtiss, Program Director. Prior to her work on environmental issues, Carrie was Associate Director with the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, a non-profit working to expand quality, affordable healthcare to all Coloradans. She began her policy career working on women's issues with the Colorado Women's Agenda and is currently vice-chair of the Women's Lobby board of directors. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Ohio University and Master's degree in Social Work from Washington University, in St. Louis. Her favorite job was serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Morocco working on community development projects and teaching English.
Charlie Montgomery, Energy Organizer. Raised in northern New Mexico, Charlie comes to CEC after two years at the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization, where he worked as outreach coordinator and coauthored Hotter and Drier: The West's Changed Climate. Prior to his work at RMCO, Charlie was a tenured professor of history at the University of Florida, where he published The Spanish Redemption, a book about the politics and culture of New Mexico. Having taught political and environment history for ten years, and having survived the heat and humidity of central Florida, Charlie is happy to be back in the interior West working on the practical side of energy policy and global warming. Charlie received a BA in politics from Princeton and a PhD in U.S. history from Cornell. Outside of work he likes to run, hike, backpack, ski, and even take his kids fishing. Carter Johnson, MIS/Circuit Rider. Carter has worked as a technology assistance provider for non-profit organizations since 1997, when he served two terms as a VISTA with the IBM / United Way Team Tech project. Carter joined CEC in 1999 where he has worked to bring our organizational members up-to-date with their technology planning and implementation. After growing up in the natural beauty of Boulder, he operated a video production business, worked as a local campaign manager and reviewed computer hardware for several national tech publications. CEC is excited to have Carter on board during this unique era of growth in our technology capacity building program. Currently Carter's goal is to expand CEC and our partners' abilities to communicate using digital media tools to protect Colorado's rich environmental resources.
Courtney Fryxell, Membership and Volunteer Coordinator. Raised all over the US, Courtney Fryxell comes to CEC to fulfill a life-long dream of living and working in Colorado. Courtney came to CEC after organizing and development work for the League of Conservation Voters in DC and as a Field Director for a 2006 Senate campaign in Tennessee. In 2007 she put together the largest Step It Up action in the country with over 1,000 people joining her at the US Capitol to demand Congress cut carbon by 80% by 2050. Courtney is a diehard Vanderbilt fan, receiving her undergraduate degree from there in 2005 in Political Science and American & Southern Studies.
Jason Wedemeyer, West Slope Field Organizer. Jason reports for duty at the CEC as a West Slope Field Organizer in Grand Junction after obtaining an MA in Environmental Leadership from Naropa University in 2007. He holds a BA in Social Ecology from Fort Lewis College. He also lived and studied for a semester in Oslo, Norway learning about energy planning and sustainable resource development. Jason brings with him experience in organizing, outreach, and leadership in the non-profit sector; and an education focused on solving energy and environmental issues through advocacy and systems analysis. Jason is excited to take up residence in western Colorado and once again enjoy the beauty and wilderness of this unique part of the state and country.
Joe Neuhof, West Slope Field Director. Joe comes to CEC with a passion for working to solve tough environmental issues. After finishing his Masters in environmental leadership at Naropa in Boulder, Joe moved to Grand Junction to start working with CEC. Before moving to Colorado, Joe was both acting executive director and deputy director of Save Our Streams in Maryland, where he led various types of coalition and canvassing projects to protect the watersheds in and around the Chesapeake Bay. He has a BA in environmental policy and geography from the University of Maine.
Jolynne Woodcock, Administrative Director. Born and raised in Denver, Jolynne's experience includes office administration and early childhood education. She worked for many years as a preschool teacher for Headstart. Jolynne is of American Indian (Lakota and Cherokee) heritage and fully shares the values for which CEC stands and strives. "The Coalition believes as my ancestors believed: showing respect and taking responsibility for the earth is a matter of serious importance and survival." Jolynne brings to the Coalition a commitment and passion for the well being of Colorado and CEC is delighted to have her on board.
Kate Graham, Public Lands Organizer. Kate comes to CEC with a strong belief in dialogue, collaboration, and compromise. After 2 years working on the national political scene as an electoral organizer with Grassroots Campaigns, Inc and a field organizer with MoveOn.org, her passion for the environment and her desire to work locally, on the ground in Colorado, steered her towards the state’s conservation community. She joined us at CEC in February of ’08 as the Media & Outreach Intern in our Denver office before coming on board in Grand Junction as the Public Lands Organizer for the western slope. Kate earned her bachelor’s degree in Communications from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An outdoors enthusiast, Kate can oftentimes be found hiking, biking, climbing, and paddling in Colorado’s awe-inspiring canyon country.
Kurt Kunkle, Field Inventory Director/Public Lands Organizer. Kurt is a Colorado native and loves to be outside. He has been doing fieldwork for conservation campaigns since his days with the Wilderness Study Group at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he earned his BA in Environmental Studies. Kurt heads up CEC's Mapping Project, training volunteers to visit Canyon Country and photograph and document the wild characteristics that make these proposed wilderness areas unique. Through his work, Kurt plays a key role in turning CEC volunteers into activists for Colorado's wild places. He has a special knack for leading hikes with just the right rare mammal sighting; volunteers at the Menfee training day caught a glimpse of a mountain lion and came back inspired to save wilderness. Join Kurt for a hike into Colorado's Canyon Country and help save it!
Luke Schafer, Northwest Organizer. From wandering through Michigan's farm country and the state's Upper Peninsula's swamps to cicumambulating Colorado's canyon country, conservation and the natural world have always been a passion of Luke's. Luke joined CEC in the summer of 2004 after graduating from Central Michigan University and has remained in CEC's Craig Field Office ever since. During that time he has been busy working on protecting the Vermillion Basin from oil and gas development as well as working on a myriad of other BLM issues. Luke is an avid sportsman who takes advantage of Northwest Colorado's abundant hunting and fishing opportunities.
Stephanie Thomas, Smart Growth Campaign Coordinator. Stephanie loves to be outside, hiking, camping or running with her favorite furry and, sometimes, human companions. She comes to CEC from Environment Colorado, where she worked on protecting and improving Colorado's water quality Stephanie originally came to Colorado from Maryland in 1997 to attend law school at the University of Colorado. Along the way she has worked with the Land and Water Fund of the Rockies (now Western Resource Advocates), Earthjustice, the federal government, and a few private law firms. In addition to her law degree, Stephanie has a B.S. in International Environmental Studies from Rutgers University. She is excited to join CEC in protecting Colorado's resources and open spaces in the face of rapid growth and sprawl. 
Last Modified: 05/01/09
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