Megan Fletcher grew up locally in Westwood. She started out as a member in the P-CREW program in 2018. After that, she knew conservation was something she wanted to do as a career. In 2020 she was a AAA for P-CREW, during this time she found her passion for youth stewardship. In the spring of 2021, she graduated from Feather River College with an A.S in Environmental Studies. The following summer, she returned to Sierra Institute as a part of the Wilderness Trails crew. In 2022, she worked part time as a P-CREW Coordination Assistant until the P-CREW program began, where she was a P-CREW leader for the summer of 2022. She returned in 2023 as the Assistant P-CREW Coordinator and is excited to now be the 2024 P-CREW Program Coordinator 2024. Megan enjoys her time in the summer by hiking, and exploring the beauty of the Lassen and Plumas county area. In the winter you can find her enjoying the slopes, snowboarding, or spending time indoors with her cats.

As a Santa Rosa resident, Mae Saunders (she/they) grew up in a city surrounded by vineyards without much opportunity for outdoor recreation, but found her love for conservation during local creek cleanups with her Environmental Studies class in high school. They spend most of their free time baking, hiking, writing, and swimming and she is a club officer at their school's student newspaper. Session 1 of P-CREW 2023 helped her solidify their decision to pursue conservation work as a career and is planning to attend Feather River College in 2025 to earn an Associate's degree in Environmental Studies and a Bachelor's degree in Ecosystem Restoration and Applied Fire Management. She is ecstatic to have the opportunity to work as a part of the P-CREW team again both behind the scenes and in the field, and is over the moon that she gets to help P-CREW be as amazing of an opportunity as possible for you!

For the past 36 years, Amy has led outdoor education and leadership training trips throughout the U.S., including the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, Southwest, Pacific Northwest, and Alaska. Her students have ranged from college students at the National Outdoor Leadership School, rural and urban high school students and youth at risk. Amy co-created Sierra Institute’s P-CREW (Plumas Conservation Restoration Education in Watersheds), GOAL (Greenville Outdoor Adventure Learning) and Friday Night for Teens programs as well as Plumas County’s Mt Visions, a backpacking program for teens with mental health challenges. She taught as a substitute and ran the after-school program at our local Greenville Jr/Sr High School, helping students who were failing classes get back on track to graduate. She also raised 3 children here in Indian Valley who have earned various degrees from California Universities. Her certificates include Adult Mental Health First Aid, Youth Mental Health First Aid, Behavior First Responder and Wilderness First Responder. She serves as the P-CREW’s Crew Member Experience Specialist, weekend Recreation planner and the Alumni Communications Coordinator. She goes into the field on an as needed basis to help the Crew Leaders and Crew Members have the best experience possible. In addition to her diverse experience in outdoor leadership programming, Amy has also served as Sierra Institute’s financial manager since 1998. In her spare time, you can find Amy hiking, running, snowshoeing or cross-country skiing with her dogs, working diligently in her garden, and backpacking or climbing in the High Sierra.

Danielle began working for the Sierra Institute in 2019 as the Stewardship Project Coordinator and is involved in both the collaborative forest stewardship and wood utilization initiatives. Prior to this, she served as the Sierra Institutes' Collaborative Landscape Stewardship Apprentice. She received a B.S. in Biology from CSU Bakersfield and an M.S. in Environmental Policy and Management from UC Davis. Born and raised in the southern San Joaquin Valley, she spent her free time in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks where she revered the studies of John Muir and developed a passion for the outdoors. Throughout her time working within private, public, and NGOs sectors, Danielle has acquired a range of experiences and has come to recognize the importance of interdisciplinary communication in the implementation and effectiveness of environmental stewardship. As an advocate for the conservation of natural resources, she is interested in the application of environmental science to real-world environmental policy and management issues. When Danielle is not working you will likely find her partaking in the many adventures the Sierras have to offer.