BOARD Members
President: Keller Leet-Otley | Vice President: Cailin Phillips
Treasurer: Alyssa Core | Secretary: Kelsey White
Event & Speaker Coordinator: Jennie Skancke
Website Editor: Madeline Maurer
Audio/Visual Coordinator: Curt Kleist
Bookkeeper and Knower of Everything: Jane Zirbes
BWSR Liaison: Ben Meyer
Board Bios
PRESIDENT
Keller Leet-Otley
Contact: keller.leet-otley@kimley-horn.com
Employer/Position: Kimley-Horn, Environmental Scientist
Personal Quirk/Fun Fact: I love music and play the guitar and bass guitar.
Favorite Memory Related to Wetlands: Reading and relaxing by a beautiful pond on my college’s campus.
Vice President
Cailin Phillips
Contact: cphillips@netechnical.com
Employer/Position: Northeast Technical Services (NTS), Wetland Scientist/ Environmental Field Scientist
Personal Quirk/Fun Fact: I am an avid outdoors woman and have been involved with archery since I was 6 years old.
Favorite Memory Related to Wetlands: Watching a beautiful 200lb, 10 point buck leap over a stream I was working in, just 10 yards away.
Secretary
Kelsey White
Contact: kwhite@ricecreek.org
Employer/Position: Rice Creek Watershed District, Permit Review Technician
Personal Quirk/Fun Fact: I have taken multiple river trips and a Boundary Waters trip using a stand-up paddle board.
Favorite Memory Related to Wetlands: Assisting with Floristic Quality Assessments in the Red Lake Peatland and Pine Island State Forest areas.
TREASURER
Alyssa Core
Contact: alyssa.core@state.mn.us
Employer/Position: MN Board of Water and Soils Resources/ Wetland Specialist
Personal Quirk/Fun Fact: I saw my first wild wolf on a hike back from the Sea Caves in northern Wisconsin. It was dusk, so there were only 3 of us still out on the ice and we were in awe of seeing it.
Favorite Memory Related to Wetlands: Paddling with my cousin in the Bark Bay Slough SNA in Wisconsin and nerding out on bog plants and bird watching.
EVENT & SPEAKER COORDINATOR
Jennie Skancke
Contact: jennie.skancke@state.mn.us
Employer/Position: DNR, Wetlands Program Consultant for the Ecological and Water Resources Division
Personal Quirk/Fun Fact: I began my career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali, West Africa
Favorite Memory Related to Wetlands: Installing wetland monitoring in a beautiful bog in Mille Lacs Katio State Park, surrounded by water filled pitcher plants.
Audio & Visual Coordinator
Curt Kleist
Contact: CKWetlandServices@gmail.com
Employer/Position: CK Wetland Services, Inc., Principal Wetland Scientist/CEO
Personal Quirk/Fun Fact: Nicknamed the “swamp goat”, due to intense field pace.
Favorite Memory Related to Wetlands: Conducting weekly aerial wetland classifications along the gulf coast from 500’ above
website editor
Madeline Maurer
Contact: maddie.maurer@bolton-menk.com
Employer/Position: Bolton & Menk Inc./ Natural Resources Technician
Personal Quirk/fun fact: I am a hobbyist orchard & vineyard fruit farmer and bee keeper located in Bay City, Wisconsin.
Favorite memory/experience related to wetlands: Hiking around the Adirondacks, finding a patch of Twinflowers (Linnaea borealis) on the edge of a wetland.