MNPS elections 2024
Vote for the candidate(s) of your choice, or write-in a candidate, including yourself! You can vote online, or submit the paper ballot contained in your April issue of the Kelseya.
Terms of office are two years. Results will be announced at the Annual General Membership Meeting at Camp Utmost in the Blackfoot Valley on June 29, 2024.
– KENDA HERMAN, vice-president (incumbent)
Kenda is a biologist with a background in environmental science and plant ecology. She has worked in a variety of roles supporting land management, research or conservation goals. Kenda lives in Helena, where she is the Botany Data Assistant for the Montana Natural Heritage Program and the Citizen Botany Pilot Study Coordinator. As a longtime member of MNPS, Kenda is eager to contribute to its leadership team.
– CAMIE WESTFALL, secretary (incumbent)
Camie has worked for the last nine years as an ecologist, and GIS and data specialist for Montana state agencies. She has been involved with several national and statewide natural resource monitoring efforts, such as wetland and riparian assessments, whitebark pine stand monitoring, rangeland health assessments, species of concern documentation, and terrestrial and aquatic exotic species monitoring. She lives in Helena and enjoys exploring nature and participating in the efforts of local conservation and education groups.
– KELSEY MOLLOY, Eastern at-large representative (incumbent)
Kelsey is a Rhode Island native who moved to Montana 10 years ago after attending graduate school in the Canadian prairies. Although she studied grassland birds, she became acquainted with prairie plants, and has always been passionate about plants. She currently works for The Nature Conservancy as a rangeland ecologist in Malta.