Ginger Cassady is a Forest Campaigner for Greenpeace, and the coordinator of the rescue station project. She has been an action coordinator, and served as a crewmember of the 2003 Greenpeace ship tour in Alaska. Ginger graduated from University of Colorado with a degree in Environmental Science, and served as the Colorado Delegate for the National Forest Protection Alliance and Director of the Wilderness Study Group in Boulder, CO.

Kingman Lim (aka Woods) graduated from UC Berkeley this year with a degree in Environmental Science and an emphasis on the workings of the global food economy. He played collegiate volleyball, and coaches at Berkeley High. Kingman survived a bout with Hodgkin’s Disease at age 15 that inspired him to be more health conscious and passionate about environmental issues. He is into music and art.

Jennifer Kirby is a 26 year old activist, who has been working on issues of housing and homelessness in Washington DC. She became involved in this forest protection campaign in part out of a concern for the economic impacts of boom- and-bust logging practices on local communities.

Anthony “Ant” Villagomez lives in the Columbia River Gorge area of Northern Oregon. He works in the forest doing restoration-based fire management and fuels reduction. Ant is dedicated to sustainable living, and is a self described ‘hip-neck’ – the unusual co-mingling of characteristics considered ‘hippie’ and ‘redneck’.

Stephanie Hillman has worked for Greenpeace for nearly 10 years, most of that time out of the Seattle office, which is where she developed her passion for the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Stephanie is a member of the Greenpeace Actions team, and is coordinating logistics for the Forest Rescue Station.

Kerul Dyer began defending forests in Oregon in 1989 while still in high school in Salem, Oregon. She has worked extensively with organizations that challenge forest destruction, racism, military recruitment, labor abuses, genetically modified food, unjust multinational trade agreements, and consolidation of media ownership for the last decade. Kerul initiated the Soapbox, a progressive newspaper in Ashland; the Oxygen Collective, a traveling troupe of activists and artists, and a Counter Military Recruitment program through Ashland's Peace House.

Jay Lininger is a Conservation Fellow at the University of Montana in Missoula, where he is a graduate student of forest ecology and fire science. He is a fourth-generation native of Southwest Oregon.

Sean Karlin produces video for Greenpeace full time out of the Washington DC office, and has devoted much of his time to forest work. He is an award winning documentary filmmaker, and a proud father of Zohar, who is 1 ½ years old.

Bill Richardson is Campaigns Director for Greenpeace USA, and a 16-year veteran of the organization. He began doing door-to-door funraising, and eventually ran the canvassing program at the national level. Bill has been involved in numerous actions and crewed on numerous Greenpeace ships. An avid climber, Bill is often mentoring staff and volunteers in safe climbing techniques.

Dot Fisher-Smith has been a community elder and activist for over thirty years. She moved to southern Oregon in 1970, and has lived in Ashland since 1981. A former organizer with War Resister's League from 1967-1970 to stop the Vietnam War, Dot also engaged in many anti-nuclear actions during the 1980s, and has been involved in environmental campaigns since the 1990’s. She is an artist, counselor and group facilitator, and a long-time hiker and back-packer.

Celia Alario is a grassroots media strategist, working on Greenpeace’s Forest Campaign as a Media Officer. Celia first became involved in forest activism in 1995 and has served on staff of Rainforest Action Network and Amazon Watch. She is committed to short soundbytes and tall trees.