.png)
STAFF
Executive Director
ADMINISTRATION
Finance Director
Bookkeeper
Grants & Administration
Coordinator
DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATIONS
Development & Communications Director
Development Associate
Communications Specialist
NATIVE PLANT PROGRAM
Native Plant Program Director
Native Plant Technician
Native Plant Program Manager
Horticulture Technician
Farm Manager
Weekend Waterer
EDUCATION PROGRAM
Education Program Manager
Douglas Youth Education Project Coordinator
Education Support Coordinator
Ṣu:dagī ‘O Wuḍ Doakag Project Manager
WATERSHED RESTORATION Program
Watershed Restoration Program Coordinator
Watershed Restoration
Technician
Watershed Restoration Crew Leader
Watershed Restoration
Technician
2023 interns
BRN Sonoran Intern
BRN Sonoran Intern
BRN Sonoran Intern
Horticulture Technician Intern
BRN Sonoran Intern
Horticulture Technician Intern
SENIOR FELLOWS
Senior Fellows bring expertise, connections and advanced knowledge to collaborate on projects, grants, and programs that contribute to BRN's mission.
Dr. Laura Monti
Laura Monti is a Cultural Ecologist at the Prescott College Kino Bay Center for Cultural and Ecological Studies. Her research and practice focuses on bio-cultural diversity and social and ecological health, with a Ph.D from University of Arizona in Arid Lands Resource Sciences-Ethno Ecology and Medical Anthropology, and an M.S. in Community Health and Pediatrics from St. Louis University. During the last twenty years she has lived and worked in southwestern US and northern Mexico, teaching with universities, developing intercultural community programs and guiding philanthropic investments to address complex social and ecological challenges that face indigenous communities living.
Dr. Gary Nabhan
Gary Paul Nabhan is an Agricultural Ecologist, Ethnobotanist, Ecumenical Franciscan Brother, and author whose work has focused primarily on the interaction of biodiversity and cultural diversity of the arid binational southwest. He is considered a pioneer in the local food movement and the heirloom seed-saving movement.
A first-generation Lebanese American, Nabhan was raised in Gary, Indiana. While excelling in some of his studies, he dropped out of high school and then had the opportunity to attend Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa for 18 months. During that time, he worked at the headquarters for the first Earth Day for two stints in Washington DC.
He then transferred to Prescott College in Arizona, earning a BA in Environmental Biology in 1974, and has remained in-state ever since. He has an MS in plant sciences from the University of Arizona (1978) and a Ph.D. in the interdisciplinary arid lands resource sciences also at the University of Arizona. During this time he started working with and learning from farmers and foragers in several indigenous communities on both sides of the US/Mexico border.