Ronald P. Brand, P.E., has been Treasurer since joining the Board in 1994. Long active in a variety of community and church-related activities, Ron currently serves as Finance chair for his church and on his hometown Comprehensive Plan Committee. He retired as Senior Vice President for Engineering, Environmental Affairs and Special Projects after 38 years of service with Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation.

Kristin Brown helped found the Wallkill Valley Land Trust in 1987 and served as its second President. She is a member of the Board of the New York State Greenway Conservancy, appointed by the New York State Assembly. Kitty has been a Mohonk Consultation’s Board member since 1994. She is in her second term as a New Paltz Town Councilwoman and is Special Projects Director for the Unison Arts & Learning Center.

Heriberto Dixon is an Adjunct Lecturer in Native American History at the State University of New York at New Paltz having retired there as a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management. Previously he taught as an Associate Professor of Human Resource Management at the New School for Social Research in New York City and served as a Human Resource Coordinator for Metro-Dade County in Miami, Florida. At this time Airy also does Native American genealogy and advises Native American tribes on Federal and State recognition issues.

Anne Finn taught preschool education for 35 years. She began in a Montessori school and became a Special Education teacher. She now works in a program for 2-4 year-olds and their parents in growing and harvesting organic produce at a New Paltz Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project. Anne also is part of an organization helping to create affordable, accessible housing for seniors in the community.

Ann Guenther has been a naturalist for 20 years at the Mohonk Preserve and Mohonk Mountain House. Her friendship with Mohonk Consultations' founder Keith Smiley helped expand her work of connecting people to the Earth in this remarkable mountain setting. Serving on the MC board has increased her appreciation for creative dialoguing to find solutions to problems and move to action.

Patty Matteson is a fourth generation Smiley family member raised as a Quaker at Mohonk. She also spent three decades living, studying and teaching literature in Colorado and Utah, observing many ways that we treat the earth, the animals, plants and each other. In the West, water took on the significance of an essential metaphor for the balance and sustainability of all life: spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and biological.

Sandra Smiley, Chair, is a fourth generation Smiley Family member, and daughter of A. Keith Smiley (MC’s founder). She was raised as a Quaker at Mohonk, playing in the woods and streams. Sandra is committed to carrying on the founding Smileys’ legacy of environmental stewardship and the promotion of dialogue on current social and humanitarian issues. She is also committed to living lightly on the earth so that our grandchildren and their grandchildren have an earth to live on.

Barbara Valocore is founder and president of Lifebridge Foundation, a small independent organization whose mission is to promote the concept of the interconnectedness of all life and one humanity. The Lifebridge Sanctuary opened in 2005: it is a 12,000 square foot green retreat center on 95 acres on the northern crest of the Shawangunk Ridge, and a near neighbor to the Mohonk Preserve. A member of the Board since 1999, Barbara is strongly motivated to support sustainability. She lives in the southern Catskills with her husband, Steve Nation.

Helen Vukasin: (Board Manager Emeritus 2011)
 “It was an honor for me to have worked with Keith Smiley since 1976, first under the Mohonk Preserve, International Affairs Committee, then with CODEL (Coordination in Development), in New York, and finally as a member of the Board of Mohonk Consultations. I succeeded Keith as the Chair in 1995 until 2001. It has been a pleasure to follow in the foot steps of the Smiley twins and Keith Smiley in bringing together people of diverse perspectives on various issues important to the Shawangunks and the Hudson River Valley.”