WW’s all-volunteer Board of Directors guide the organization, serve as ambassadors, and provide professional expertise. Some of the Board knew and remain inspired by founders Dottie, Connie, and Joy; all are involved in our community and are deeply passionate about WW’s mission. Questions about the Board should be directed to Executive Director Will Roush

Allyn Harvey, Board President

Allyn Harvey is the principal at Allyn Harvey Communications, a public relations and media management company he built around more than two decades of award-winning journalism at newspapers in Colorado and Washington state. He lives and works in Carbondale where until recently he served on the elected Town Board of Trustees. He helped found the Sopris Sun, Carbondale’s local nonprofit newspaper. Allyn is an avid outdoorsman and powerful advocate for our local public lands.

Andy Welgos, Treasurer

Andy is a Certified Public Accountant and Partner with Reese Henry & Company in Aspen. With nearly 10 years of accounting and tax experience, he brings a unique perspective to the company and its clients. He provides leadership to the team as well as hands-on involvement in financial statement preparation, tax preparation, and accounting services to clients of all types. A lifelong resident of Aspen, Andy takes full advantage of the active lifestyle that the Valley has to offer. He enjoys skiing, mountain biking, fishing, rafting, camping, and ice hockey. But most of all he loves spending time with his wife, Mandy, and their three children, Abby, Georgia, and Jack.

Denali Barron, Secretary

Denali grew up hiking and skiing in the Roaring Fork Valley and moved to Aspen full-time in 2012. As a teacher and mentor with the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES) education program, she works to connect young people to the amazing place we live. Denali is inspired and humbled by the natural world, and she loves Wilderness Workshop’s tireless advocacy on its behalf. She and her husband Adam live at the Hallam Lake Nature Preserve in Aspen with their two children.

Stephanie Ayala

Stephanie is the Grants Manager for the Catena Foundation where she manages grants for six program areas: Clean Energy, Civic Engagement, Immigration, Watershed Health, Trails and Youth Cycling, and Native Partnerships. Stephanie grew up in Carbondale where she has enjoyed skiing, biking, hiking, and volunteering. Stephanie recently joined Voces Unidas de las Montañas, where she helps advocate for the Latino community. She says, “Having WW working full-time on conserving our public lands is extremely important, especially as we see our community growing rapidly. I truly admire WW’s community programs and as a Latina, I am excited for Defiende and the involvement of the Latino community.”

Mary Dominick

Mary’s family moved to a ranch near Aspen in 1952, but she attended boarding school and college in the East and only spent vacation time and summers at home. Consequently, her love affair with Aspen did not become permanent until after she had become unmarried and raised three sons. Mary was involved in environmental activity during her EPA days in Washington, D.C. and was on the board of the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies when she lived in Denver. Always an avid skier, hiker, and rider, Mary became friends with founder Connie Harvey when she moved to Aspen in 1993. Today Mary is most active with fund and friend-raising for WW.

Cici Fox

Cici became a WW board member in XXXX. Her mother, Dottie Fox, was one of the founders of the Aspen Wilderness Workshop and stayed involved for close to 30 years. Cici wanted to continue to carry on her mother’s legacy and passion for protecting the environment and is honored to serve on the Board. Cici’s life and spirit has been spent living in the Roaring Fork Valley, always cherishing our great outdoors. She particularly enjoys WW’s public programs and events, which are a great chance to learn about the natural world and to connect new people with the important work of protecting public lands.

Ben Johnston

Ben joined the Wilderness Workshop board in 2024. As a founding partner of JVAM, a law firm based in the Rocky Mountains, Ben works with individuals, businesses and non-profits to help plot and navigate their legal trajectory. Before launching JVAM, Ben built a foundation for his practice by working at all levels of the legal system. Ben also spent time in New York City working at a top law firm, where he handled mergers and acquisitions, and counseled clients on corporate governance, securities laws, and financial regulations. Ben will bring to the Workshop a deep background in working with Fortune 500 companies involved in complex, nationwide problems. Ben seeks to protect the wilderness, water, and wildlife in Western Colorado so that his children and future generations can enjoy it like he has. In his free time, Ben loves to ski, fish, golf and mountain bike with his kids, and spend time at his family’s cabin.

Craig Mackey

Craig founded Mackey Partners, LLC, a firm focused on the protection and management, recreational access, and use of America’s public lands and waters. He was a Director of Business for Water Stewardship, a 1,100-member business coalition working on sustainable water use and healthy rivers in the Colorado River Basin; he was a founder of and served as Director of Government Affairs for the Outdoor Industry Association. Craig has worked in the use and management of public lands and waters for the last 30 years on issues related to river protection, outdoor recreation, outfitting and guiding, and wilderness and backcountry designations. He has served as a board member of numerous other prominent environmental organizations.

Michael McVoy

Michael dedicates a substantial portion of his time to nonprofit work. A former board member at the Aspen Valley Land Trust,  he also serves on the Pitkin County Retirement Board, the Roaring Fork Transit Authority Retirement Board, heads the Roaring Fork Community Development Corporation, and is on the board of Aspen Journalism, among others. He has owned a bookstore, worked as the publisher of the Aspen Times, and was a restauranteur. But his primary occupation is being a financial adviser in Aspen, an industry he has been involved with since 1982. Michael especially appreciates the core mission of WW to protect existing wilderness and designate new wilderness.

Aron Ralston

Aron Ralston is an American outdoorsman, mechanical engineer, and motivational speaker known for having survived a canyoneering accident in southeastern Utah in 2003 during which he amputated his own right forearm in order to free himself from a dislodged boulder which had him trapped in Blue John Canyon for five days. The incident is documented in Ralston’s autobiography “Between a Rock and a Hard Place” and is the subject of the 2010 film “127 Hours.” Aron has been involved with WW for many years, beginning with the Hidden Gems campaign in the mid-2000s.

Michael Stranahan

Michael was a self-described “indoors person” until he moved to the Roaring Fork Valley, where he reveled in the discovery of the backcountry and soon became an outdoors person. A civic leader, he has served on several environmental, science, and educational non-profit boards, including as former chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute and the Aspen Global Change Insitute. WW founder Connie Harvey asked him to join the board in 2001, and he’s been involved ever since. Michael is grateful to live in a place with so much outdoors to get into. He wishes to preserve it and share it with all the world.

Karin Teague

Karin Teague is the Executive Director of the Independence Pass Foundation and has been on the WW Board since 1999, seeing as president from 2014 through early 2016. An outdoor adventure and nature writer and former environmental attorney, she is passionate about wild places, their flora and fauna, and the educational, recreational, and soul-feeding opportunities they offer the public. Karin is never happier than when she is leading a hike in our resplendent backyard.

Elizabeth Velasco

Liz joined the WW Board in February 2021. Born in Mexico, she has lived in Colorado for over 18 years and worked with diverse teams while managing the Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch. Liz has worked with the Western Slope Latino Community – first with the local School District, then as a medical Interpreter; her work has expanded to include community interpreting, translation, voice-over, and consulting. Elected to the Colorado House of Representatives (HD-57) in 2022, she is a Board Member of Young Latino Philanthropists, an adjunct professor at Colorado Mountain College, and volunteerrs with Voces Unidas de las Montañas.

Ted Zukoski

Ted first came to Colorado after college, working on Tim Wirth’s successful 1986 Senate campaign. After a stint as a junior policy assistant to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Ted graduated from Yale Law School in 1992. He then worked as an attorney for conservation groups including Earthjustice, Western Resource Advocates, and since 2019 for the Center for Biological Diversity. His work has included litigation and advocacy to protect wildlands, wildlife, communities, and the climate. He fell in love with the White River National Forest on a backpacking trip in the Flat Tops Wilderness in 1990, and has lived in Colorado since 1995.