| Corey Brinkema
President
Email: cbrinkema@fscus.org
Phone: 612.812.1500
 Corey Brinkema joined FSC in 2007. Corey brings with him more than 20 years of experience and commitment to sustainable development. Prior to joining FSC, Corey served as Executive Director of Minnesota-based Green Institute, a regional leader in green building and clean energy. Corey was also a founder and principal of Trillium Planning & Development which focused on industrial ecology and eco-industrial development. Corey is a graduate of Dartmouth College and earned his M.B.A. at the University of Michigan. |
Emily Crumley
Manager, Chain-of-Custody
Email: emily@fscus.org
Phone: 612.353.4511
 Emily is the primary FSC-US liaison for FSC Chain of Custody (CoC) certificate holders, and is responsible for assisting companies to understand CoC policies and procedures and to maximize their benefit as a certificate holder. Emily also leads activities related to linking supply chain members to enhance market efficiencies and encourage uptake of forest management certification.
Emily brings with her four years of experience with FSC through her work with the Rainforest Alliance, an FSC-accredited Certification Body, where she successfully helped hundreds of wood products companies achieve FSC CoC Certification. Previously, she worked for the St. Paul Parks and Recreation Department on native ecosystem restoration. She holds a BS in Natural Resources and Environmental Studies with a minor in Forest Resources from the University of Minnesota. |
Gary Dodge
Director of Science and Certification
Email: gdodge@fscus.org
Phone: 530.621.3249
 Gary is responsible for programs designed to ensure FSC system integrity and increase uptake of FSC certification by forest managers in the US and Canada. His expertise in both the ecological and human dimensions of forest management are central to his role at FSC-US.
Gary leads our work in developing and applying US and international standards and policies for forest management, facilitating access of the FSC system to small landowners, increasing access to ecosystem service markets (such as carbon), and assisting market linkages. Gary is based in Placerville, CA.
Gary comes to FSC-US with over twenty years of professional experience as a conservation biologist and ecologist. In his pre-FSC life, Gary worked as a biologist with the University of Maryland, the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, the US Forest Service, and the National Park Service, and for Conservation International in the Conservation Awareness Program. Gary holds an M.S. in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology and a Ph.D. in Plant Ecology from the University of Maryland. |
Ian Hanna
Director of Development
Email: ian@fscus.org
Phone: 360.301.4548
 Ian leads efforts to substantially increase the organization's resources and capacity at a time both challenging economically and yet promising, as FSC is experiencing unprecedented growth in the marketplace. Before joining FSC-US staff, Ian served as Director of Northwest Certified Forestry at Northwest Natural Resource Group (NNRG), a conservation and rural development non-profit, where he gained substantial experience in family woodlands certification, FSC market development, and program management. Prior to NNRG, Ian founded Windfall Lumber in Olympia, Washington, and he has worked for The Nature Conservancy of Washington, Certified Forest Products Council, and Certified Wood & Paper Association. He was also a member of the FSC-US Board of Directors from 2007-2009.
Ian and his wife, Morgan, live in Port Townsend, Washington. |
Martha Hodgkins
Director of Communications
Email: mhodgkins@fscus.org
Phone: 434.249.9907
 Martha joined the staff of FSC-US as Director of Communications in May 2009. In addition to media, public relations and other basic aspects of communications, she works to advance marketing, fundraising and building FSC's brand awareness among U.S. businesses and consumers.
Martha comes to FSC-US from The Nature Conservancy, where she spent 16 years in marketing and communications, most recently as communications director for two international forest conservation programs. She served as managing editor of Nature Conservancy magazine, wrote and edited two prominent books and managed communications for several programs and capital campaigns. Prior to her Conservancy years, Martha held communications and development positions at the National Academy of Sciences and National Trust for Historic Preservation, and she holds a B.A. in English from the University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee.
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Karen Steer
Project Manager
Email: ksteer@fscus.org
Phone: 503.260.8335
 Karen Steer is a project manager at FSC-US, where she is responsible for a variety of activities aimed at maintaining the high integrity of the FSC system while also increasing system uptake. As lead in the initiative to revise the US FSC forest management standard, Karen brought diverse stakeholders together to find common ground on what constitutes exemplary forest management in the US. She also manages the Family Forest Program and several other FSC-US initiatives.
Karen came to FSC after seven years with Sustainable Northwest, a regional conservation-based development organization. She has also held positions with the Wilderness Society, the National Park Service Social Science Program, and the Peace Corps, where she served for three years as a protected areas volunteer in Honduras. Karen holds a BS in Environmental Science and an MS in Environmental Management from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She lives in Portland, Oregon. |
