OUR BOARD

KERRI STEBBINS
FOUNDING DIRECTOR,
​PRESIDENT & CHAIR(WO)MAN

Kerri digs Matt, mountains, alpine lakes, running Endless Trails, using her words, keeping her nose stuck in a book, puns, pugs, pine trees, porters, alliteration. She was born into a familial lineage of distance-running, but didn't find her love for epic trail miles until 2011, having been a sprinter in high school and college (in Oregon). Originally from Spokane, WA and a proud Northwest native, Kerri grew up spending her summers in and around north Idaho, before falling into deep smit with the rest of Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Montana, and even South Dakota.

Kerri comes to Endless Trails with an extensive accounting, grant-writing/management, and project admin/management background, in addition to high school and collegiate tutoring and elementary counseling experience. Before moving from Oregon back to Washington State, she worked for a prestigious capital management/sustainable tree farm company. She also has a long and merry history of freelance writing, editing, and social media/marketing work. 

MATT STEBBINS
​FOUNDING DIRECTOR,
​VICE-PRESIDENT & SECRETARY

Matt likes mountains, loves being outside, and would go anywhere with Kerri. He's familiar with trails in Wisconsin (his birth state), Iowa (college), and across the Midwest, as well as in each of the Western states he's lived (Arizona, Idaho, and Washington) and played in (California, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming). 

Matt ran his first trail in 1997, his first trail ultra in 2003, and hasn't found a reason to stop spending long days in the mountains yet. 

Matt comes to Endless Trails with a dynamic and extensive history in education - including outdoor education - having worked with elementary to college students in Math, Science, English, and many of the liberal arts. He also is an adept writer (though he'll never admit it aloud), a stellar communicator, and a regular winner of Jeopardy. Matt and Kerri ran the race side of Rainshadow Running (permits; event planning; race logistics) from early 2014 to May 2016, in addition to doing all of the volunteer coordinating and social media/marketing. 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

JORDAN MAKI-RICHARDS

Jordan is a kindred spirit, a fellow mountain goat and alpine adventurer, as well as an educator who tends bar on evenings and weekends. She excels at multi-tasking, being exceedingly supportive, and throwing a great fundraising party. When she's not traveling the country (or the world!) with her husband, she's likely passing you with a smile and an encouraging word in local and regional trail races. 

BENJAMIN PERRI

Ben is an successful restaurant and bar manager, and an enthusiastic and hard-working volunteer and trail runner currently calling Hood River, Oregon home. Coming to the Endless Trails board after a long and varied history in the music industry, Ben is all-in for outdoor preservation, and brings a unique and dynamic perspective and set of skills to the team. 

BRI LEAHY

Bri is an engineer with an art degree who is passionate about endurance sports and wild spaces. Thru hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in 2015 solidified a long-term love affair with the mountains, and helped Bri transition her former Ironman triathlon endurance hobby to pure trail running and fast packing. Bri has maintained her connection to the PCT and trails by avidly volunteering as a steward, scout, and sawyer-in-training, and she brings those trail skills and that passion with her to Endless Trails. Bri has finished a trail 100-miler and countless other ultra distance races, has been known to carry instant potatoes with her wherever she goes, and is also a dog-mom to a quirky old border collie named Eureka!

CHRIS DAVIDSON

When he's not running and/or volunteering at local trail races with his pup, Sophie, or playing music with his lady, a la Saint September, you'll find Chris helping steer the ship at Atlas Coffee Importers, where he routinely travels the globe to facilitate the importing of green and tasty coffee beans. He has a long history of exploring the outdoors, and brings endless passion and kindness to the team.

                  KAREN PRESLEY                  

Karen is an accounting and bookkeeping wizard (Want proof? She invested and saved enough money to fully retire before she was 50), and brings over three decades' worth of her money-saving and budget balancing knowledge to the Endless Trails team.

​She's highly organized, extremely efficient, and taught Kerri almost everything she knows about how to simultaneously be fiscally responsible and exceedingly giving. 

GRETCHEN WALLA

Gretchen is a long-time runner (who rocked her first trail 100-miler in August 2015!), horse whisperer, and outdoor enthusiast who excels at being organized and spreading positivity wherever she goes. After 16 years working for the Northshore YMCA, Gretchen was Rainshadow Running's Trail Running Film Fest Project Coordinator before settling into a Marketing Manager position with Northwest Trail Runs. Gretchen is passionate about people, trail running, taking road trips to work on horse ranches/see her favorite bands perform, drinking IPAs, hummus, and dark chocolate. She brings extensive community and regional support to the Endless Trails team, while also being a certifiable ray of sunshine for any cloudy days. 

RYAN LAUCK

Ryan grew up in the Midwest but felt the call of the mountains all his life. He learned to climb, ski, and run in the hills of Utah on annual childhood trips to visit family, and finally moved after graduating from the University of Texas at Dallas with a degree in Computer Science. Writing software by day and exploring the trails in northern Utah on evenings and weekends, Ryan developed a passion for trail-building and outdoor advocacy. He currently serves as a member of the Farmington City Trail Committee and works with the US Forest Service to organize volunteer trail maintenance projects there.

Ryan is dedicated to preserving the trails that allow us to sustainably access wild, beautiful places...except on powder days.

SO THAT'S OUR SUPER DYNAMIC, EXCEEDINGLY ENTHUSIASTIC TEAM! 
WE'RE READY TO DO BIG THINGS. 

We're also psyched to get to know you and some of your favorite trails.
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