VNRLI Class of 2025

Melissa Allen, John Marshall Soil & Water Conservation District 

Max Banas, Virginia Energy

Scott Bartley, Virginia Outdoors Foundation

Ian Baxter, UVA - Institute for Engagement & Negotiation

Jean Bradford, Dominion Energy

Cameron Bruce, Nansemond Indian Nation

Laura Costadone, Old Dominion University-Institute for Coastal Adaptation and Resilience

Alexis Dickerson, Potomac Conservancy

Ben Grove, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Virginia Tech

Laura Hartman, Roanoke College

Brent Hunsinger, Friends of the Rappahannock

Charles Marston, Virginia Department of Conservation & Recreation

Julie Minde, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service

Serena Moncion, Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin 

Will Moore, Virginia Department of Transportation

Elise Neuscheler, Friends of the Lower Appomatox River

John Pierce, Monocan Indian Nation

Eli Podyma, PlanRVA

Anne Powell, Virginia Department of Health

Emma Rich, Colonial Soil & Water Conservation District

BeKura Shabazz, Injustice Reform Network

Sheri Shannon, Southside Releaf

Carly Starobin, Alliance for the Bay

Avery Stone, The Nature Conservancy

Bill Sweeney, Virginia Department of Forestry

Jenny Templeton, U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service

Carl Thiel-Goin, Virginia Department of Conservation & Recreation

Meagan Thomas, Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources

Nathan Thomson, James River Association

Bobbie Todd, Rappahannock Tribe

Casey Velazquez, Smithfield Foods, Inc. 

Caitlin Verdu, Virginia Department of Forestry

Ryan Westpfahl, Chesapeake Bay Foundation