An important piece of our Alliance’s Annual Conference (held this year on August 20) has always been the Annual Business Meeting.
Our Alliance’s Nominations Committee is putting forward the following candidates:
Andreya Krieves: Candidate for President
Andreya Krieves lives in Mesa County and has served on the Western Colorado Alliance board of directors since 2016. Her professional background is in secondary education, having taught middle and high school in Colorado, Texas, and New York. Since moving to Grand Junction in 2013, she has worked on local campaign committees serving as Chair for the GJ Community Center Campaign and Volunteer Coordinator for the 2019 School District 51 Bond Campaign.
Andreya is the current chair of the Western Colorado Alliance board, serves as one of our Alliance’s representatives to Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC) board, and chairs the Grand Valley Parks and Recreation Foundation. She also works for the District 51 Foundation and teaches yoga. Andreya is an avid runner and skier and enjoys exploring the outdoors with her husband and two young boys.
Bill Wellman: Candidate for Treasurer
Born and raised in North Carolina, Bill moved to the west in 1973 to work at Theodore Roosevelt NP in North Dakota. After a 41-year career with the National Park Service, he and his wife retired in Crawford, Colorado in 2012.
During his career, he served as superintendent of eight National Park units including Great Sand Dunes, Curecanti, and Black Canyon of the Gunnison here in Colorado. Most of the final years of his career were spent on the Mexican border at Organ Pipe Cactus NM and Big Bend NP dealing with natural resource and international issues. He has been Treasurer for our Alliance since 2020.
Vote on our new draft platform!
From 1983 through 2017, Alliance members adopted resolutions at our annual conference to shape the organization’s policy and issue work. While the resulting 100+ resolutions covered a wide range of topics, they did not easily convey our values and purpose which are bigger and more inspiring than any one issue or position.
At our 2016 annual conference, we adopted a resolution to transition from this resolution-based process to a platform which would be reviewed and reaffirmed each year. An ad hoc committee of the Board of Directors is submitting the following platform for initial approval at this year’s Business Meeting on August 20.
You can read the draft platform here.
Worley Award
The Chuck & Betsy Worley Award was established in 1999, and honors individuals who have made outstanding volunteer contributions to our Alliance. The award is named in honor of two of our Founding Humans who were life-long activists for environmental and social justice.
Rising Star Award
Two years ago, we started a new tradition with the Rising Star Award, specifically honoring new volunteers. To be eligible, a nominee must have joined or become active in our Alliance in the past two years.