Dr. William (Bill) Doe became the CEO of Veterans Green Jobs on 15 October 2010. Bill previously served as a VGJ Board member and Treasurer. Bill is a career Army veteran having served on active duty in the Army Corps of Engineers from 1974-1996 and retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. He was commissioned from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and served overseas in Germany and stateside, including seven years on the geography/environmental faculty at West Point. He holds graduate degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of New Hampshire (M.S.) and Colorado State University (Ph.D.). Bill was a senior researcher and administrator in the Warner College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University for thirteen years, prior to becoming CEO. His areas of expertise include military lands, environmental and watershed management and the study of warfare ecology and military geography. He has authored numerous book chapters and articles on these subjects. He also teaches graduate level courses on these topics via distance learning. Bill grew up as an Air Force brat (the son of a career officer) living stateside and overseas with his family. He has been active in veterans and student-veterans affairs in northern Colorado and at Colorado State University, where he also served as the Assistant Director of Veteran Services. He routinely speaks at veterans-related functions in his community, including Veterans Day and Memorial Day. His hobbies include competitive running, sports, travel and outdoor activities with his wife and three adult children.
Garett Reppenhagen is the son of a Vietnam Veteran and the grandchild of World War II Veterans. Garett enlisted in 2001 as a Cavalry Scout in the US Army. He was stationed in Vilseck Germany, with 2-63 Armor Battalion 1st Infantry Division, where he deployed to a peace keeping mission in Kosovo for nine months in 2002-2003. Garett completed International Interdiction Training at the NATO Special Forces school in Steton Germany in 2003 and deployed to Iraq in January of 2004. He was stationed at FOB Scunion near Baquaba Iraq for one year completing sniper missions in the Diyala region. Garett was Stop-Lossed for ten months and was Honorably Discharged in June 2005. Garett returned to the US to work as the Vice President of Public Relations for Nobel Prize winning Veterans For America in Washington DC. He served as the Chair of the IVAW Board of Directors. Currently Garett lives in Denver Colorado and is employed by Veterans Green Jobs working as the Director of Veterans Transition.
John Toth is Senior Director of Veterans Programs and a former United States Army Infantry Officer with over 21 years experience leading soldiers in challenging situations around the globe. During his career, John served tours in South Korea and Egypt, and was deployed to combat in Iraq. His assignments included the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions as well as the Pentagon. He is a graduate of the rigorous U.S. Army Ranger School and is a Master Parachutist and Pathfinder. He recently completed his final assignment as the Professor of Military Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder where he was responsible for training future officers for the Army. Passionate about Veteran issues, he sits on the board of directors for the Denver Centennial Chapter of the Association of the United States Army as well as the Admiral Arleigh Burke Chapter of the Military Officers Association of America in Boulder, CO. He holds a Masters degree from the prestigious School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Additionally, he is on the board of advisors for impossible2Possible – a youth development organization. A devoted husband and proud father of two boys, he resides in Boulder, Colorado with his family where they share his passion for cycling, the outdoors, and traveling the world.
Chuck Watkins is VGJ’s Senior Director of Denver Operations. Chuck is an Army veteran and has spent most of his professional career working in residential green building. He has eight years experience in senior leadership positions developing affordable housing programs across the United States and overseas (Mexico and Asia). He spent two years directing disaster response programs for Habitat for Humanity International throughout Asia (Tsunami affected countries and in Pakistan). Chuck has a personal and professional passion for sustainable living including alternatively constructed homes, renewable energy, and a large permaculture garden. In 2007, Chuck moved to Denver to finish his Master’s Degree in nonprofit leadership at Regis University and in 2009 joined Veterans Green Jobs. He currently lives in North West Denver with his life partner Amy, daughter Maggie and his cattle dog Lydia.
Tara Williams, not-for-profit specialist, business woman and manager, is currently the CFO at Veterans Green Jobs. Tara was the owner of Dollar-Sense, a successful accounting and bookkeeping company geared to serving non-profit organizations from 2000-2010. Prior to that she was the Business Manager, Interim Executive Director and then Managing Director for the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. A graduate of Brown University, Tara also worked as a social worker in San Francisco and Baltimore and as a program associate with Maryland Nonprofits, a membership organization supporting excellence in the non-profit sector in Maryland. She moved to Boulder, CO in 1997.
Veronica Collin, is Director of the Go Green Warehouse, Veterans Green Jobs’ high-quality discount, new and used, home-improvement materials store whose revenues will support training and employment for military veterans. With professional experience managing home improvement outlets and an expert knowledge of the cost, best use and quality of construction materials, Veronica is responsible for all operations of the Go Green Warehouse, which opened in May 2011. From 2007 to 2009, Veronica managed the Habitat for Humanity Home Improvement store in Denver, Colorado. The 30,000 square-foot warehouse sells new and used building materials, employs eight full-time staff and leverages the support of hundreds of volunteers. Prior to joining Habitat, Veronica worked for the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and the Denver Business Journal. At these organizations she had oversight of public and media relations; conducted market analyses; wrote and edited technical manuals, catalogues and advertisements; managed employees, interns and volunteers; and coordinated education programs and events. Veronica graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a degree in environmental science.
Jo Schantz, Chief Development Officer, has been with Veterans Green Jobs since April 2010. Jo brings more than 20 years of nonprofit experience to this position, and she has developed a wide range of professional skills through high-profile fundraising events, grants administration, public relations efforts, and marketing roles at various Colorado nonprofits including the Denver Art Museum, Red Rocks Community College, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado. Prior to earning her Master’s degree in Nonprofit Management from Regis University, Jo graduated magna cum laude from Metropolitan State College of Denver with a Bachelor’s degree focused on English and Journalism. Along with her formal education, Jo has an extensive background as an award-winning freelance writer and photojournalist. She was appointed to the Governor’s Commission on National and Community Service, and she also served on the Board of Directors for the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Colorado Chapter.
Tamar Ellentuck is a founding director of Veterans Green Jobs and presently serves as the Senior Director of San Luis Valley Operations. She comes to VGJ from a career in natural resource protection and community consensus building around land use issues involving multiple private, non-profit, and public land-users and owners. Tamar has a passion for creating actionable social awareness around the true cost of energy development and use.
Kynnie Martin is the Volunteer Program Coordinator and a Colorado native. She received her BA in Communications from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and was commissioned through the Army ROTC program by her grandfather, a West Point Class of 1939 grad, into the Military Intelligence Corps. Kynnie was stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom III (2005-06) as a Platoon Leader and Executive Officer with the 3rd Infantry Division’s first Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Company. She was honorably discharged as a Captain in 2007. She is a recipient of the Bronze Star Medal and German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge. Kynnie is pursuing her Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Management from Regis University with a Certificate in Executive Leadership. She serves on the Board of Directors for LoDoNA and volunteers with the LoDo District Young Professionals. Kynnie resides in LoDo Denver with her husband, Joel, dogs Dolce and Aldo, and cat Gabbana.
Dana Shea-Reid is the Chief Human Resources & Employment Officer for Veterans Green Jobs. She has more than twenty years of experience in public sector human resources administration working with Colorado municipalities and an additional 3 years working for the U.S. Department of Labor. She launched Shea Resources, LLC in 2002 and has worked as an independent management and human resources consultant for public sector and non-profit employers.In addition to an extensive knowledge of employment law and policy development, Dana has broad experience in classification, compensation and employee relations. She has conducted numerous fact-finding investigations and has written extensive reports on findings and recommendations. In 2007, Governor Bill Ritter appointed Dana to the State Personnel Board for a 5 year term that expires in July, 2012. She is serving her second year as the vice chair of the Board.Dana has a Master’s degree in Nonprofit Management from Regis University. She also completed 42 hours of graduate course work in public administration at the University of Colorado-Denver Graduate School of Public Affairs and earned her Bachelor’s degree at the University of New Mexico. She has been a long time volunteer with local nonprofits, also serving as a board member, board officer and committee chair. She continues to provide pro bono consulting services to nonprofits needing assistance. A lifelong fan of the outdoors, Dana spends her spare time hiking and camping in remote areas of Wyoming. When her knees were in better shape, she spent three of her summers working for the Volunteer Conservation Corps, building new trails for the U.S. Forest Service in national forests in Wyoming, Nevada and California.
Marietta Silva is the Corporate Partnership Manager for Veterans Green Jobs. She is the daughter of a Vietnam Veteran who earned a purple heart during his second tour of duty. Marietta enlisted in the Army National Guard in 1997 and served as a combat medic with the 249th Main Support Battalion in Austin, Texas for the next 8 years. She concurrently developed her non-military career in the nonprofit industry, serving as a Program Director with the YMCA from 1994 until 2005. Upon being honorably discharged from the military and earning her bachelors degree in Education with a minor in Biology from The University of Texas at Austin, Marietta relocated to Denver, attained full securities industry licensing and worked in financial sales for the next six years as a Financial Advisor and Advisor Consultant. She currently lives in Denver and serves as Corporate Partnership Manager for Veterans Green Jobs.
Linda Lidov, Communications Consultant for Veterans Green Jobs, specializes in strategy, writing, marketing and media relations. For 19 years she has executed communications programs in the arenas of commercial satellite imaging, geographic information systems, state and local government, natural resources, energy efficiency, philanthropy, nonprofit and education. She has led public awareness campaigns for organizations ranging from DigitalGlobe and Space Imaging to the Southwest Conservation Corps and the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado. Linda has a personal passion for storytelling: discovering the difference nonprofit work makes on people and their lives, and illustrating these impacts through the written word. Her work has appeared in high-profile outlets such as The New York Times and ABC World News Tonight, industry magazines ranging from Disaster Recovery Journal to Public Works Magazine, and local radio, print and broadcast media. She received a bachelor’s degree in French from the University of Colorado, and studied language and literature in Grenoble, France.
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