Sandra Santa Cruz
(719)587-6945
ssantacruz@adams.edu

Roger Doane, SLV RC&D Council Member
5056 CR 10 South
Alamosa, Colorado 81101
(719) 589-1060
dperch81101@yahoo.com
Mr. Doane is the project Director of the San Luis Valley Resource Conservation & Development Council Solar Photovoltaic Center Pivot Project. With a BS in Agricultural Education and Finance from the University of Nebraska, 26 year employee of the Farm Credit System.

Mary Carmel Hoffman, Executive Director of Community Partnerships
208 Edgemont Blvd.
Alamosa, Colorado 81102
(719) 587-7603
mchoffma@adams.edu
Currently, Mary Hoffman serves as Adams State Colleges’ Executive Director of Community Partnerships. Along with overseeing the college’s service learning, cultural arts and business support program, she builds partnerships and collaborations between Adams State College and the community it serves. Mary is a founding member of both Con-Cepts (Conejos County Environment and Economy Progressing Together) and Valley Horizons (Home for un-wed teenage girls whose mission is to assist young women through housing and growth opportunities). Mary has received the “State Star” award from the National Association of Small Business Development Centers. This award is given to individuals who make an extraordinary contribution to their State’s business development system. Mary served as an Economist for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department of Labor, in Los Angeles and in San Francisco from 1987 to 1993.

Ravi Malhotra, Executive Director Icast
(303)-462-4100
ravi@ic-ast.org
Ravi Malhotra has a B. Tech in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India and a MS in Engineering and MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He has 20 years of experience working in various positions of responsibility in small entrepreneurial firms, helping them manage their growth. Mr. Malhotra has experience developing and disseminating appropriate and sustainable technologies internationally and creating financially viable enterprises, including two of his own. Ravi volunteers for various community development efforts including the CAP program for the Governor's office of Economic Development. He was a member of the Western Governor's Association Solar & Bio-Energy Task Force that planned the roadmap for 30,000 MW of clean energy for the western states.

Terrance McClaughry, Earth Sun Resources
8251 South Road 110
Box 1407
Alamosa, Colorado 81101
(719)589-3605
earthsunresources@amigo.net

Jim Mietz, Coordinator SLV RC&D
101 South Craft Drive
Alamosa, Colorado 81101
(719) 589-3907 x 124
james.mietz@co.usda.gov
A graduate of N. Y. State Ranger School with a B.S. in Forestry and a M.S. in Forestry from Utah State University, Jim has been the Coordinator for the San Luis Valley Resource Conservation & Development Council since 1990. Jim organizes projects and assists in managing a variety of community non-profit groups.
From 1987 to 1989, Jim coordinated the North Jersey Resource Conservation & Development Council where he created tools for local planning boards and assisted in urban forest management. Between 1981 and 1986, he was the District Conservationist for Madison County Soil and the Water Conservation District.

Paul Shippee, Crestone Solar School
(719)256-4656
paulshippee@fairpoint.net
Paul holds a degree in Civil Engineering with a major in Structural Engineering and was the founding President of the Colorado Solar Energy Association. He also helped plan housing experiments in energy conservation research and testing with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. His teaching experience includes courses in Solar/ Renewable/Alternative Energy design, at: Colorado State University, Naropa University, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Colorado at Denver, (Red Rocks campus – taught first Passive Solar class there). Paul also has taught privately and held workshops, along with presenting at several National ASES Solar Conferences in the 1970’s.Paul has designed and built several passive solar homes in Colorado, including energy-efficient retrofits and zero-energy solar homes. While living in Boulder, Colorado Paul operated a solar design, consulting, and contracting firm as a licensed Mechanical Contractor and a licensed General Building Contractor.

Dr. Maria Mondragon-Valdez, SLV Solar Coordinator
101 South Craft Drive
Alamosa, Colorado 81101
(719) 589-3907 x 128
mariamondragon@gmail.com

Andy Zaugg, Hot Stuff Controls
Box 306
La Jara, Colorado 81140
18238 County Road T
Sanford, Colorado 81101
(719) 843-5118
andyzaugg1@fone.net
I grew up in suburban Washington, D.C. and moved to the San Luis Valley in 1976. I live in northern Conejos County with my wife, Alice Price. I have done many different kinds of work, most of it self-employed, including ornamental and structural ironwork in the D.C. area, producing military radar in California, and co-authoring a substantial book on air-medium solar thermal systems. I have taught mathematics at the college level at U. C. Santa Cruz, and Tai Chi Chuan at the community level here in the San Luis Valley. I have begun and maintained my own manufacturing business with a national market, done engineering consulting as far away as Chicago and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I have been a department manager, safety officer, and security officer at Conejos County Hospital. In addition I have served on several boards of directors related to healthcare (Conejos County Hospital, Mennonite Health Resources), community (Habitat for Humanity, AYSO soccer league, SLV Solar Energy Assn.), and religious organizations, including being the president of an insurance trust. During the times that I have worked in organizations, the most satisfying aspect of my activities has been the healing of relationships between groups within the organization that routinely fail to achieve mutual understanding because of the different types of personalities that gravitate to each group. A prime example would be the nursing and environmental services departments at Conejos County Hospital. I would describe myself as a contemplative person, mildly introverted. I enjoy reading widely in nonfiction, hiking in the mountains, motorcycling when the weather is warm enough for my declining metabolism, and just looking out the window.