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Staff

Jonda CrosbyJonda Crosby is the Executive Director, where she is responsible for organizational fundraising, staffing and program development. Jonda has 20 years of grassroots, practical application of sustainable agriculture experience working with communities, farmers and educational institutions. Before coming to AERO, Jonda worked as the project director on a W.K. Kellogg Foundation food systems project for Penn State University, The Rodale Institute and The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture. Jonda as a Cooperative Extension agent in New York, worked primarily with farmers developing sustainable agriculture marketing and farming practices. Jonda has also served as a coordinating council member of the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group that develops federal food and farm policies. She has also served as an instructor of sustainable agriculture at Penn State University, and as a high school ag teacher. Jonda grew up on a dairy farm in western New York, and still owns cattle on the family farm. She currently part-time farms organically in Montana. Jonda has an MS in Agricultural Education and a BS in Agricultural Sciences from Murray State University in Kentucky. Read a note from Jonda.

Ben BrouwerBen Brouwer, Renewable Energy & Conservation Program Manager Ben's responsibilities with AERO include conducting tours of energy efficient homes and farms, developing state policies to advance energy efficiency and renewable energy, and helping communities with energy and climate change planning. Ben has served on Helena's Growing Community Project steering committee and the Helena Climate Change Task Force and is currently a member of the Montana Renewable Energy Association's Board of Directors. Before joining AERO in 2007 Ben baked bread for the Park Avenue Bakery in Helena and he built a boat with friends that they then rowed and sailed to Alaska from the San Juan Islands. Ben grew up on Lopez Island in Washington State and graduated in 2004 from Middlebury College in Vermont with a BS in Geography and Environmental Studies.

 

 

Corrina CollinsCorrina Collins is AERO's Communications and Membership Manager. Her family moved to Helena in 1994 from the New York City area. Corrina graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy with a major in writing, and earned her BA from Bennington College in 2005 in Literature/Writing and Philosophy. In 2007 Corrina moved back to the Helena area with her son Eamon, and has been working with AERO since October 2008.

 

 

 

 

Kelsey BauerKelsey Bauer, Energy Conservation Organizer Kelsey is serving with AERO through the AmeriCorps VISTA program from January 2010 to January 2011. In 2009, she graduated from St. Olaf College in Minnesota with a degree in Environmental Studies and with a yearning to return to western Montana, having only gotten a taste of the mountains as a summer research technician in Glacier National Park. While at St. Olaf, Kelsey was involved with the college's Environmental Coalition as a co-leader and helped to establish a revolving fund for clean energy projects on campus. In addition to recognizing our responsibility for the ecological effects of our current energy consumption practices, she feels equally motivated to promote energy efficiency and conservation as one way to work for equity within our communities.