Board of Directors
Trees Forever Board of Directors and Foundation Trustees*
Sondy Daggett, Chair
Integrated Communications Strategies- Cedar Rapids, IA
John Myers, Vice-Chair
Cedar River Mill, International Paper - Cedar Rapids, IA
Shannon Ramsay, President/ CEO*
Trees Forever- Marion, IA
Andrew Lennette, Finance Committee Chair
Aegon, USA - Cedar Rapids, IA
Rick Robinson, Nominating Committee Chair
Iowa Farm Bureau- West Des Moines, IA
Kimm Harris, Chair of Marketing & Development Committee
IPC of Iowa, Inc- Cedar Rapids, IA
Marty Andreas*
Retired, ADM- Cedar Rapids, IA
Liz Christiansen
University of Iowa- Iowa City, IA
David Dellos
Children's Center for Therapy - Coralville, IA
Vern Gebhart
Alliant Energy - Cedar Rapids, IA
Pat Graves
Team WAVE- Arnolds Park, IA
Nancy Lowenberg*
Securian Advisors MidAmerica - Cedar Rapids, IA
Janis McFarland
Syngenta Crop Protection- Greensboro, NC
Jim Nitzschke
John Deere- Moline, IL
Brent Oleson
Linn County Board of Supervisors- Marion, IA
Margo Underwood
Underwood Consulting - Mason City, IA
Dennis Vercler
FarmWeek, RFD Radio Network- Bloomington, IL
Staff Representatives to the Board
Margaret Birmingham
Finance and Operations Coordinator, Trees Forever - Marion, IA
Karen Brook
Field Coordinator, Trees Forever - Marion, IA
Trees Forever Honorary Board
Nina Leopold Bradley
Baraboo, WI
The Honorable Frank Cownie, Mayor
City of Des Moines - Des Moines, IA
Ann Wallace Fleming
Carlisle, IA
Dan Gable
Iowa City, IA
Raj Gopal
Iowa City, IA
The Honorable Thomas P. Latham
U.S. House of Representatives Iowa 4th District - Washington, D.C.
Trees Forever Advisory Board
Julia Badenhope
Iowa State University - Ames, IA
Darrel Brotherson
Rockwell CACD - Cedar Rapids, IA
Glenn Cannon
Waverly, IA
Dr. Kamyar Enshayan
College of Natural Sciences - Cedar Falls, IA
Brian "Fox" Ellis
Foxtales International - Peoria, IL
Laura Froyen
The University of Notre Dame - Notre Dame, IN
Tom Maser
Developer - Okoboji, IA
David Oman
Earth Park - Des Moines, IA