Who We Are

Todd Reeve

Todd is CEO of the Bonneville Environmental Foundation and has been with BEF for over 20 years. During this time he helped BEF create numerous first-of-a kind programs that rely on the power of partnership and collective impact to solve pressing energy, water, and climate challenges.

Todd’s career has been built upon a vision of leveraging diverse perspectives to harness untapped potential for positive and lasting water, climate, and energy solutions.  His work has included partnerships with Fortune 500 companies, universities, tribes and NGOs to build and support programs and projects that maintain healthy water resources, advance the clean energy movement, and enlist corporations and communities as core leaders in social and environmental solutions. Todd is Co-Founder of BEF’s Business for Water Stewardship (BWS), Change the Course (CtC), and Water Restoration Certificate (WRC) programs.

Felicia Phillips

Felicia joined BEF in 2008. She leads the Finance and Operations team, oversees the CE – Clean Energy. Bright Futures program, engages the Finance Committee and Board of Directors on high level financial matters, and manages BEF’s business operations. She thrives on developing and advancing solid foundations and systems for business sustainability and growth.

Fueled by variety, she has over 20 years of experience in providing senior level leadership in a wide range of functional areas including accounting/finance, IT, human resources, legal services and contract management, product line development, supply chain management, customer service, and data processing. A huge proponent of education, Felicia holds an AA in Accounting, BA in Business Administrative Leadership, JD in Law, and a Masters Certificate in Healthcare Administration.

Hilary Shohoney

Hilary joined BEF in 2022. She is a champion for resilient nonprofit practices that amplify mission impact. Hilary’s role encompasses guiding staff development, program execution and strategic planning. Additionally, Hilary focuses on assuring effective internal communications and development and measurement of performance metrics across the organization. 

Hilary believes that the mission of an organization must start with how it treats its staff, and she brings this framework to shaping organizational culture. Hilary has over a decade of leadership experience, with many of those years committed to nonprofit leadership and impact. Noting that personal experiences are key drivers of mission-based, professional work, Hilary seeks to amplify organizational and community impact through a recognition of people as individuals.  

Heather Schrock

Heather focuses on developing relationships with all types of entities, including corporations, small businesses, universities, and nonprofits to help them understand their impacts in carbon, water and energy.

Heather comes to BEF with a diverse background in sustainability, outreach, marketing and sales. Previously, she was the Portland Regional Manager of the ReDirect Guide, a local green directory, and has served on the boards of Green Drinks PDX and VOIS (Voice for Oregon Innovation and Sustainability). She has also been a professional singer, dancer, public speaker and Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. As a Portland native, Heather enjoys the Pacific NW for its many outdoor offerings and an abundance of fantastic food!

Sara Hoversten

Sara has been with BEF for over 5 years and currently holds the position of Director of Business for Water Stewardship. In this role she oversees the strategic approach and implementation of the program, engages and maintains corporate partnerships, and helps guide the investment in conservation partners. She’s focused on growth opportunities for the program that continue to drive support for partners and the on-the-ground impact and expand the environmental water stewardship field with an eye on equity and diverse perspectives.

After graduating with an M.B.A. in sustainable business practices, Sara launched her career in sustainability working for a nonprofit in the sports industry. 

Evan Ramsey

Evan Ramsey leads the Renewables program at the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, where he has driven the organization’s expansion into community solar, low-income solar, transportation electrification, and renewable hydrogen. The Renewables program specializes in innovative renewable energy deployment models, low-income benefitting solar projects, and energy storage.

Evan brings nearly two decades of experience in the solar sector. He brings a foundation in early-stage program development, technical innovation, and hands-on project delivery has shaped his approach ever since: entering new territory, learning quickly, and building programs that last. He combines deep technical and operational expertise with a track record of strategic planning, partner relationship-building, and cross-sector coalition work, which builds a diverse movement towards a clean energy future.

Kathleen “Kas” Guillozet

Kas supports PNW-centered collaboration, fundraising, and monitoring in service to watershed partners. She co-leads the Washington State Floodplains by Design initiative NGO backbone, and manages a dynamic team who build bridges and serve communities through: Collaborative Grow streamlined native plant procurement, knowledge sharing on climate adaptation, Promise the Pod and tree funding, Human Nature, and various Willamette Basin partnerships.   

Kas holds a PhD in Forest Social Science from Oregon State University and a BS in Biology from the Evergreen State College. She has worked in collaborative planning, ecological restoration, and socio-ecological research for 25+ years.

Austin Bernales

As a Communications Coordinator with a focus on the Watersheds program, Austin specializes in developing, centralizing, and disseminating technical information that promotes integrated floodplain management and collaborative watershed stewardship. They provide science and education communications strategy, programmatic support, and the facilitation of collaboration across Tribal entities, agencies, nonprofits, community partners, and stakeholders. Austin is committed to cultivating holistic connections between people and the land to create lasting community impacts.

Before joining BEF, Austin worked with several non-profits and universities as a strategic communications specialist and supported federally funded cultural and educational programs through the development of multimedia storytelling. They also have extensive experience in brand strategy, graphic design, and marketing.

Amerra Felsman

Amerra (Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes) joined BEF in 2024 as the Tribal Liaison within the Renewables team, leading tribal engagement during BEF’s deployment of Solar for All in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. Her role has since grown into a cross-functional position supporting Renewables, BWS, and BEF’s watersheds work, with a continued focus on Tribal Relations across BEF’s full portfolio.

Prior to joining BEF, Amerra served in her tribal government where she worked on climate and food sovereignty policy. Amerra also has considerable experience in community-based participatory research and Indigenous-focused research. Amerra is passionate about upholding tribal sovereignty and advancing trust-based philanthropy and partnerships with tribes.

Joseph Pugh

Joe joined BEF as its Contracts Manager in 2024. He reviews and revises contracts across programs, conducts contracts trainings, and works on contracts tools and processes.

Joe has a degree in electrical engineering, a law degree, and an MBA. In his law school application essay, he said he wanted to use his education to help others. In 2015, after partnering with his wife to fund their children’s college education, Joe was able to stop working full-time as a patent and business attorney and honor his personal commitment to use his education to help others. Primarily, he used his MBA to help nonprofit organizations with various types of finance work. Those experiences, and his work on contracts as an attorney, accompanied him to BEF.

Loridee Wetzel

Loridee joined the Clean Energy. Bright Futures team at BEF in 2024 as the Educator Leadership Coordinator after 2 years of helping the team. They collaborate with the CE team and external partners to provide professional learning experiences for educators and coordinate educator leadership programs.

Loridee is a former youth robotics program manager with over 10 years of experience working with youth STEM education programs in formal and informal education settings. They believe that inspired kids are capable of changing the world. Before working in education, she worked as a fisheries biologist, archivist, and computer programmer.

Isatou Jallow

Isatou joined BEF in 2024 as a Senior Grant Accountant, supporting the organization’s accounting functions, including grant management and financial reporting. In this role, she ensures compliance with GAAP and other financial regulations while providing accurate and timely financial data to support BEF’s mission. Before joining BEF, Isatou worked with several non-profit organizations as an auditor, where she ensured compliance with funding requirements. She also has extensive experience managing federal grants and adhering to Uniform Guidance.

Davenia Boothe

Davenia joined BEF in 2024 as a Business for Water Stewardship Program Coordinator.

Prior to BEF, Davenia spent 5 years working toward making high-quality education accessible to students in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Nevada. Through this, she gained experience in the planning and implementation of project plans and adherence to federal grant policies.

Lydia Fraser

Lydia joined BEF in 2024 as the newest member of the Climate Business Group. She is an experienced sales and operations professional with almost a decade of experience in the voluntary REC and carbon markets, with a deep understanding of natural climate solutions and corporate sustainability strategy. 

Lydia’s passion for sustainability and preserving natural resources for future generations comes from her background in regenerative agriculture. She previously worked on small, organic farms in Oregon and freelanced as a permaculture landscape designer with a keen interest in helping homeowners create sustainable, edible landscapes around their homes. 

Jessica Carmona

Jessica joined the Renewables Team as a Sr. Program Manager in 2024. She brings 8 years of international experience specializing in project management, partnerships and communication. 

Prior to joining BEF, she worked in different industries such as solar, education, and environmental consulting. She has had two companies of her own: a cricket farm and a sustainable travel agency. Her objective is to contribute to the finding and application of innovative sustainable alternatives for everyday problems in order to have a better quality of life.

Jenny Chung

Jenny joined BEF in 2023, where she supports the accounting functions, including Accounts Payable and Receivable invoice processing and vendor management. Prior to joining BEF, Jenny worked for a manufacturing company for over ten years, where she managed their Accounts Payable and Receivable.

Kristi Buchanan

As a member of the BEF FinOps team, Kristi specializes in the management of workflow through departments within the business, including streamlining processes and procedures for efficiency. Kristi has worked in an operational role for over ten years – from managing a design studio to running large scale live events – Kristi enjoys being a support to the teams she works with and helping them find efficient ways to work through challenges and get projects to the finish line.

Tyler Smith

Tyler joined BEF in 2023 as the Business for Water Stewardship Program Coordinator. He strives to understand watershed conditions by conducting basin research and collaborating with
in-basin partner organizations. He aims to deliver long-term, high-impact and equitable solutions to ecosystems and their communities through strategic project portfolio management.

Prior to joining BEF, Tyler spent years in the public sector analyzing water rights throughout Idaho, gaining a deep understanding of the intersection of water policy and management in the Western US.

Alejandra Camacho

Alejandra (Alex) joined the Business for Water Stewardship (BWS) team in 2026. As Program Coordinator, Alex plays a critical role in supporting a distributed network of staff and diverse partners to advance program goals. She is key to helping identify and fund high-impact water stewardship projects and managing project portfolio systems.

Prior to BEF, Alex worked in the global development sector, collaborating with diverse partners and stakeholders to improve renewable energy and potable water access to last-mile communities across the globe. Alex is most interested in engaging with spaces that continuously consider the complex and nuanced intersection between people and the environment.

Cassandra Martin

Cassandra joined BEF in 2023. She works within the Renewable Energy team to support the development of community solar projects and manages the subscribers of ongoing projects. She also supports the Zero Emission Vehicle Innovation (ZEVI) grant program, working with tribes and consumer-owned utilities to fund electric vehicle projects. 

Before joining BEF she had been working in the transportation industry for 5 years, where she gained experience in developing innovative transportation solutions that prioritize the needs of the community.

Melanie McManamon

Melanie joined BEF as a Community Engagement Coordinator. She collaborates with community partners to help subscribers navigate the process of accessing renewable energy.

Previously, Melanie worked as a bilingual educator and later as a higher education administrator. In those roles, she supported students and families as they navigated the daunting, complex transition to college.

Her career has always centered on breaking down complex systems to help people succeed. Today, Melanie channels that exact passion into the renewable energy sector, ensuring communities can easily access clean energy initiatives.

Aisha Heredia

Aisha joined the Business for Water Stewardship team in 2021. Her passion for community development and sustainability comes from a background in advocacy and public policy work in Hawai’i, California and Nevada. She manages partnerships with nonprofits and on-the-ground stakeholders and seeks to understand community needs, through the lens of equity, to achieve strategic outcomes.

Prior to joining BEF, Aisha spent fifteen years as a program manager spanning work with large research institutions and start-up nonprofits. She has worked on managing programs across statewide and national sectors.

Kayla Seaforth

Kayla joined BEF in 2021 as a part time employee, to support the development of the Treeline Newsletter and transitioned to a full time role in 2023.

Kayla supports multiple programs that seek to add capacity, build climate resilience, and promote collaboration among organizations engaged in ecological restoration around the Pacific Northwest. These include BEF’s Carbon Credit Regional Operator Program, Collaborative Grow, Treeline, the Climate Resilient Riparian Systems Lead and more.

Prior to joining BEF, Kayla worked in on the ground conservation area stewardship where she managed natural areas to promote ecological integrity and provide places for communities to connect with nature.

Harold Thomas

Harold joined BEF in 2021. He’s part of the Arizona Business for Water Stewardship team, engaging businesses in water security to ensure continued economic and ecological vitality in the State. In this role he raises the voices and concerns of ranchers, growers, developers, small businesses, and industry leaders.

Prior to joining BEF Harold worked in the US and internationally on climate adaptation planning, watershed restoration, integrating water resources management and land use planning, and community building. Harold is particularly interested in connecting people with nature and each other to find common ground and solutions.

Rosemary Lopez

Rosemary joined BEF in 2021 and serves as Program Director for CE – Clean Energy. Bright Futures. She leads workforce-connected STEM and clean energy education initiatives, including teacher professional development, educator leadership cohorts, curriculum development, and career-connected learning experiences.

Before joining BEF, Rosemary spent more than two decades as a K-12 and college science educator. She has also served as a school administrator and curriculum specialist, with a decade of experience in curriculum design.

Rosemary is passionate about empowering educators through hands-on, inquiry-driven learning that connects students to real-world challenges and opportunities.

Scott McCaulou

Scott develops conservation partnerships that improve water stewardship. He offers technical and strategic oversight to ensure that these partnerships are effective and aligned with the funding partners’ goals.

Prior to joining BEF, Scott spent more than two decades working on river restoration throughout the Pacific Northwest. At the Deschutes River Conservancy, he established some of the nation’s first streamflow restoration projects and built a host of collaborative conservation partnerships with cities and irrigators. He later managed regional efforts to restore streamflow throughout the Columbia and Klamath River Basins.

Tomas Endicott

Tomas joined the Renewables team at BEF in 2020.  He has honed his skills in business development, grant writing, project planning and management, financial analysis, business operations and policy.  He manages the Zero Emission Vehicle Innovation (ZEVI) grant program and he assists schools, communities and utilities with solar project development and implementation.

Prior to joining BEF, Tomas spent twenty years in the private sector developing renewable energy projects with start-up companies and with engineering firms.  He has worked across different technologies, including biofuels, biogas, woody biomass and solar.  Most recently he worked as an independent solar developer for community solar projects in Southern Oregon.

Jean-Paul Zagarola

Jean-Paul A. Zagarola is a Senior Program Manager at the Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF), where he has spent over a decade supporting conservation and restoration efforts across the Pacific Northwest. His work centers on building and coordinating collaborative networks that close capacity gaps in watershed restoration and resilience — bringing together small non-profits, Tribes, watershed councils, local, state, and federal partners to scale up technical expertise, funding, and on-the-ground implementation. Jean-Paul’s portfolio spans beaver-based restoration, watershed and wildfire resilience, stream restoration and native plant procurement.

Before his restoration work in the PNW, Jean-Paul conducted research on social-ecological systems and community-based ecosystem management. This research earned him a Fulbright Scholarship to study the interactions between communities and their environment in the southern Chilean and Argentinean Patagonia — an experience that continues to inform his approach to collaborative, place-based conservation today.

Robert Warren

Since joining BEF in 2008, Robert has collaborated directly with a diverse range of public and private institutions that support watershed restoration efforts as well as with the organizations that work with their communities to advance restoration goals. Robert is particularly interested in helping develop the capacity of local initiatives to ensure they are strategically focused, that partners are able to track progress over time, and that the work is sustainable over the time scales needed to achieve success.

Calling on his own experience as a restoration practitioner, Robert is able to understand the opportunities and challenges that partners face and collaborate with them to explore and test solutions.

Chaun MacQueen

As Director of Learning and Development, Chaun guides the strategic direction and execution of talent and career development initiatives. Chaun creates engaging professional learning experiences to enhance BEF’s capacity to retain and recruit talent through scalable onboarding and training programs, particularly for emerging climate leaders. Chaun joined BEF in 2014 and previously led CE – Clean Energy. Bright Futures. program impact nationally.

Chaun brings her nonprofit and natural resource management background and 30 years of experience designing and managing professional training and environmental education programs, career development, stakeholder engagement, coalition building and startup of social and environmental impact initiatives stateside and abroad. (Peace Corps Volunteer, Nepal 1997-1999).

Katie Paul

Katie is a Certified Public Accountant who joined BEF in 2014. She manages all aspects of accounting for BEF including the general ledger system, preparing monthly financial statements, coordinating the budget process and executing the year end audit.

Prior to joining BEF, Katie worked for over ten years in auditing and governmental accounting focused on non-profit entities. Her expertise includes fund management and reporting, auditing, grant management and budget development.