Board
Dinosaur Ridge Board of Directors

Pictured Left to Right Back Row: Pallavi Jhaveri, Trey Harrison, Steve Strachan, Amy Boulas, Marlene Pickett, Left to Right Front Row: Cindy Matthews, Donna Anderson, Marsha Barber, Bill Savage, and FODR Executive Director Jeff Lamontagne (Not pictured: Lorraine Alcott, Ann Norton)
Stephen Strachan (Board Chair): Owner, Strachan Exploration*
Lorraine Alcott (Board Vice-Chair): Retired Geologist*
Trey Harrison (Board Treasurer): Portfolio Manager, Assistant Vice President, U.S. Bank*
Donna Anderson, PhD (Board Secretary): Sedimentary geologist, author, affilliate faculty Colorado School of Mines*
Marsha Barber: Retired, Science Coordinator, Jefferson County Public Schools
Amy Boulas: VP Development, Children’s Tumor Foundation
Pallavi Jhaveri: Retired, City of Lakewood
Cindy Matthews: Dir. of Communications, Colorado Gives Foundation
Ann Norton: Attorney, Norton Law Firm
Marlene Pickett, Environmental Health & Safety Specialist, Emerson
Bill Savage: Retired, Managing Director, NITEC LLC
*Executive Committee
Want to Serve on a Committee?
If you’re interested in getting more involved with Friends of Dinosaur Ridge at a strategic level, please contact Jeff Lamontagne.
Committees
- Development & Marketing Committee: Steve Strachan (Chair)
- Diversity Committee: Amy Boulas (Chair)
- Education Committee: Marsha Barber (Chair)
- Finance Committee: Trey Harrison (Chair)
- Governance Committee: Ann Norton (Board Liaison)
- Preservation Committee: Marlene Pickett (Chair)
- Master Plan Committee: Pallavi Jhaveri (Chair)
Advisory Board
The Dinosaur Ridge Advisory Board is a group of subject field experts that relate to our mission. They are leaders in their fields and have demonstrated their commitment to our organization and/or mission. We turn to them for periodic advice and review of our programmatic work.
- Brent Breithaupt, Curator/Director, University of Wyoming Geological Museum (Retired)
- Joan Chavez-Lee, Principal (multiple schools) and teacher (multiple schools) in Jefferson County, Colorado (Retired)
- Linda Morris, Elementary Science Coordinator, Denver Public Schools; Elementary Science Specialist, Jefferson County Public Schools (Retired)
- Matthew Mossbrucker, Executive Director, Morrison Natural History Museum
- Robert Payo, Director of K-12 Education, Denver Urban Gardens
- Dr. Nicole Peavey, Staff Paleontologist, Colorado Department of Transportation
- Dr. Bob Raynolds, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Geologist/Research Associate
- Kermit Shields, Geologist and former Dinosaur Ridge Board Director from 2006-21
- Joe Tempel, Co-Founder and First Executive Director, Friends of Dinosaur Ridge (Retired)
- Dr. Beth Simmons, Paleontologist (Retired); former Secretary of Friends of Dinosaur Ridge
- Dr. Louis H. Taylor, Ph.D., Vertebrate Paleontologist/Geologist, Past FODR Board President