Les Meyers

Les Meyers

Les Meyers, Executive Director of the White Tank Mountains Conservancy, brings more than thirty years’ experience in site search, land acquisition and due diligence, land management, complex development processes, and multi-sector collaborations with municipalities, legislators, government agencies and conservation groups. Les leads a large scale collaborative effort to protect the diverse habitat of the White Tank Mountains through maintaining ecological connectivity and advancing stewardship of and engagement with the mountains.

Heather Crismon

Heather Crismon

Heather is CAZCA’s Desert Defenders Liaison. She studied sustainability and geography at CSU. She believes in stewardship and caring for Earth’s ecosystems. She advocates for community involvement by using resources like the Desert Defenders Program. 

Terry Haines

Terry Haines

Terry is a volunteer with CAZCA and works with Challie and Marisol to maintain a database of research projects underway in CAZCA partner organizations. She also assists and supports with other programs like the Sonoran Seed Collaborative.

Terry’s previous work has focused on forest resource policy and law and land-use planning in forest ecosystems.

Pat Barber

Pat Barber

Pat Barber is an Arizona native from Yuma. He has worked for the Arizona Game and Fish Department for over 25 years in a variety of positions and in a variety of locations around the state. He is currently assigned to the headquarters/Director’s Office as the Executive Community Engagement Administrator, building relationships with communities around the state and developing new business approaches.

Chris Jacques

Chris Jacques

Chris Jacques, AICP is the Director of Planning and Community Development and the Zoning Administrator for the City of Peoria. He leads a professional staff that is responsible for a broad array of functions including zoning and development administration, historic preservation, open space and strategic planning. Mr. Jacques has over 25 years of professional planning experience. He has successfully led the completion of a number of signature development and planning projects including the successful voter ratification of the 2001 and 2010 Peoria General Plans, P83 Urban Design Plan, and the Peoria Design Principles and Guidelines for architectural and site review.

Kristen Busby

Kristen Busby

Kristen Busby is a Director for the Urban Land Institute (ULI), Arizona District Council, where she focuses on initiatives that align with ULI priorities around land use, real estate, diversity, and building healthy communities.  Kristen is responsible for planning and executing programs that engage members in outreach and educational efforts to help communities with unique land use planning, development, and re-development issues. Kristen has over 20 years’ experience in statewide community development, transportation and sustainability planning.

Deb Sydenham

Deb Sydenham

Deb Sydenham joined ULI Arizona in 2010 as its Executive Director after nearly 20 years with the State of Arizona, and 9 years in the private sector. In addition to her ADOT role as Deputy Director for the Office of P3 Initiatives, Deb worked closely with the Governor’s Office and the Governor’s Military Affairs Commission on statewide military sustainability issues and continues to be a resource to the State in this area. Her military endeavors provided the opportunity to ride in an F-16 aircraft and experience aileron rolls, aerial loops, pulling 5Gs, and going Mach 1.1 to break the sound barrier.

Juanita Armstrong

Juanita Armstrong

Juanita is the Natural Resource Specialist for Maricopa County Parks and Recreation Department. She has more than 20 years’ experience planning and managing high quality natural areas and open space; from developing plans to implementing projects that improve the biodiversity and health of our natural open space public lands.

John Sefton Jr.

John Sefton Jr.

John Sefton is the Parks, Recreation & Community Facilities Director at City of Peoria and is a visionary leader in the field of community and leisure services with over 20 years experience.

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