VARD Staff
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Sandy Mason Sandy served for 12 years as an elected member of a planning and zoning board in Massachusetts. During his tenure Sandy faced issues similar to those of Teton County such as preserving agricultural land and open space, grappling with commercial and residential sprawl, and conserving community character in a community with a large second-home-owner population. One of Sandy’s accomplishments, with support from The Nature Conservancy and the State of Massachusetts, was helping to conserve 1,200 acres of land that was slated for a 900 unit residential development. Sandy has been very involved in the Teton Valley community through volunteerism since he and his wife make made it their permanent home in 1997 . Sandy and Mary are also conservation easement donors. Email Sandy Mason
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Kim Billimoria Kim Billimoria graduated from Gordon College (Wenham, MA) in 2001 with a B.A. in Political Studies and Economics. She grew up in the East African countries of Kenya and Tanzania, and lived and studied in Oxford, England for a year during college. Her previous work experience includes working for the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and the Africa Division of World Education, Inc., an international non-profit that specializes in non-formal adult education. Founding and doing community education and advocacy with two area peace groups on the Boston North Shore were some of the most transformational experiences of her life. Kim and her husband Zahan are delighted to be sharing all that life in Teton Valley has to offer with their children, Alyosha and Gemma. Wanting to help shape the kind of community that her children grow up in is one of her greatest motivations in working for VARD. Email Kim Billimoria
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Anna Trentadue An Idaho native, Anna has worked as a river guide since she was 18 years old. Her experience guiding on rivers throughout Utah, West Virginia, California, Oregon, and Idaho is the cornerstone of her interest in resource management. After studying ecology in Nunavut and Nepal, she earned her B.A. in Biology, with a French minor, from Colorado College in 2000. After college, she worked in plant genetics and diabetes research for the UC Berkeley Plant Gene Expression Center and U.C. San Francisco Department of Medicine. Anna then retired her Petri dishes and went to law school, earning her Juris Doctor from the University of San Francisco in 2006. She specialized in land use and water law, interned with the Attorney General's Energy Task Force, and worked at a private water law practice. Upon graduation, Anna returned to Idaho, to work for another private water law practice in Boise. She is thrilled by the opportunity to work for VARD and call the Teton Mountains her "backyard." Email Anna Trentadue
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Lucy Flood Lucy Flood graduated with an MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Texas at Austin in May of 2007. She also has a degree in Human Biology with an emphasis in Environmental Policy from Stanford University. Her fiction and non-fiction has appeared in magazines, journals, and newspapers across the country, and she has worked extensively on fisheries, forestry, and land use issues in British Columbia and Kentucky. Some of her latest writing projects have centered around mountaintop-removal mining, a particularly destructive form of coal mining that is pervasive in the south east. Lucy’s passion for VARD’s mission is fueled in part by her experiences growing up in rural Kentucky and her family’s battle to save their farm from encroaching development. Email Lucy Flood
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Chris Lundberg Chris joined the staff at VARD in late June of 2008. A native Minnesotan, Chris has been coming to Teton Valley for 20 years in progressively longer stints. Chris graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, MN with a B.A. in Political Science in 2005 and went on to earn a J.D. from the University of Minnesota law school in 2008. Chris was admitted to the Idaho Bar in September of 2008. Outside of work he spends as much time as possible running trails and exploring the backcountry. Chris is excited to finally call Teton Valley his home and is thrilled to have the opportunity to work towards a more responsible future for this special place. Email Chris Lundberg
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