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Stephanie holds a Master in Public Administration and a Master in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Oregon; she also holds a BA in Public Policy and Management and a Minor in Marine Biology.  Stephanie has been working in non-profit environmental protection for over 22 years throughout the West.  Before she came to FRIENDS, she worked with the Center for Biological Diversity, focusing on federal endangered species protection, landscape management and rural community development.  Stephanie has also worked as a land use planner for the City of Eugene and land use consultant in New Mexico.  As Executive Director, Stephanie manages all projects, staff, contractors, community outreach, research, fundraising and board development.  Stephanie has been FRIENDS Executive Director since 2001 and resides on Shaw Island with her husband and son.

Tina received a Master of Science from the University of Oregon, with graduate work focused on improving the application of biological information to land use planning and policy.  She received a BA in Environmental Design from the University of Colorado at Boulder.  Tina has an extensive background in conservation and has served as a field biologist and science educator in both the Northeast and the Northwest. She has over fifteen years of non-profit environmental experience, including positions with a wildlife refuge, watershed councils in eastern and western Oregon, and a natural history museum. Specific areas of field expertise include fisheries habitat assessment, shorebird research and protection and watershed analysis. Tinas professional skills also include restoration project management, educational program development, citizen science coordination, grant and report writing and landowner involvement. As Science Director, Tina oversees FRIENDS inventory, analysis, and restoration and protection programs, with an emphasis on marine ecosystem recovery.  Tina also serves on the San Juan County Marine Resources Committee. Tina joined the FRIENDS staff in 2002.  She lives on Orcas Island with her husband and son.

Kyle earned his law degree from Boston College Law School, where he also participated actively outside the classroom, through service on the BC Law Review, as president of the Environmental Law Society, as a legal intern at BC's Elder Law Clinic, and teaching environmental law to undergraduate students. After law school, Kyle worked with residents in Roxbury to advocate for the even distribution city-wide of environmentally-harmful activities, as a legal fellow for Alternatives for Community and Environment, a not-for-profit environmental justice organization in Boston. Kyle then spent three years with the Seattle office of K&L Gates, practicing in the Environmental, Land Use, and Natural Resources Group. In addition to his work with FRIENDS, Kyle serves as a board member for Transportation Choices Coalition and Leadership San Juan Islands. Kyle is a native Washingtonian who enjoys exploring the many nooks and crannies found in the islands and the occasional backpacking trip to the Cascades.  Kyle joined the FRIENDS staff in 2007.  He and his wife live on San Juan Island.

Shannon holds a Masters degree in Urban Planning with an emphasis on natural resource management from the University of Washington.  She received her undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Shannon spent five years as the owner and operator of a sailing and kayaking charter boat business in the San Juan Islands.  She was the first coordinator for the San Juan County Marine Resources Committee, our local citizen-based advisory body to the Board of County Commissioners.  As Development Director, Shannon is in charge of grant writing, newsletter production, and assists with all other elements of fundraising and grant management.  Shannon currently telecommutes from Port Townsend.  She is a member of the Jefferson County Marine Resources Committee and Northwest Straits Commission.  Shannon joined the FRIENDS staff in 2003. 

Jana has 30 years of island residency during which time she has seen many changes.  For 15 of those years she lived remotely and self-sufficiently on Stuart Island where she raised her two daughters.  There, Jana was a fire commissioner, PTA representative and a volunteer at the local one-room schoolhouse.  Since moving to Friday Harbor ten years ago she has applied herself as a volunteer office manager at a local private high school, as a landscaper, a chaperone taking twenty high school and college students to Asia for seven weeks and has organized two community Earth Day events.  At FRIENDS, Jana provides backup support in all program areas assisting with meetings, lectures, special events, volunteers, membership, fundraising, reporting and filing.  She brings a strong community ethic and organizational skills to her job as office manager.  Jana joined the FRIENDS staff in 2002 and lives on San Juan Island.

James has over 20 years experience in information management and has served as a consultant to local governments and environmental organizations for planning, project design and implementation of spatial data systems; database design; business practices involved in the use of spatial data systems, and data acquisition. Mr. Slocomb has developed Information Management Plans for the Town of Friday Harbor, and Land Information Systems for San Juan County. Slocomb served as the Project Manager of Geographic Information Systems for the Alaska Dept. of Natural Resources, Oil Spill Project Office based in Anchorage, Alaska, where he managed AutoCad/GeoSQL based mapping system for mapping impacts to Prince William Sound resulting from the EXXON Valdez oil spill. He was the lead Alaska Department of Natural Resources mapping staff for oil spill restoration efforts. Among other contributions, Mr. Slocomb designed and maintains the nearshore habitat database generated by the Forage Fish and Eelgrass Assessment projects and the Voluntary Salmon Conservation program.  Jim has been consulting with the FRIENDS since 2001.