Meet the Team
FUNDIS Leadership Staff
Conservation Director
Mechanicsburg, PA
Sasha Ospina
Operations Lead
Kalamazoo, MI
Director of Communications
Pine Mountain Club, CA
Harte Singer
Sequencing Program Director
Santa Rosa, CA
CA FUNDIS Staff
Taye Bright
CA FUNDIS Collector
Sebastopol, CA
Warren Cardimona
CA FUNDIS Fungarium Assistant and Collector
San Leandro, CA
Thea Chesney
CA FUNDIS Collector
Penryn, CA
Rudy Diaz
CA FUNDIS Collector
Corona, CA
Michelle Torres-Grant
CA FUNDIS Collector
Avila Beach, CA
Marinna Grijalva
CA FUNDIS Collector
Southern California,
Mandy Hackney
CA FUNDIS Collector
Eureka, CA
Sadie Hickey
CA FUNDIS Collector
Graton, CA
Jaren Hockert
CA FUNDIS Collector
West Sacramento, CA
Fiorella Lema
CA FUNDIS Program Manager
CA
Dean Lyons
CA FUNDIS Collector
Oakland, CA
Scott Ostuni
CA FUNDIS Sequence Validator
Deland, FL
Justin Paulin
CA FUNDIS Sequence Validator
Menlo Park, CA
Stu Pickell
CA FUNDIS Collector
North Hollywood, CA
Christian Schwarz
CA FUNDIS Collections Lead
San Diego, CA
Sharon Squazzo
CA FUNDIS Sequence Validator
Bellingham, WA
Aaron Tupac
CA FUNDIS Collector
Alhambra, CA
Bat Vardeh
CA FUNDIS Collector
Pasadena, CA
Valerie Warhol
CA FUNDIS Sequence Validator
Pittsburgh, PA
Volunteers
Aaron Keaton
Northeast Rare Fungi Challenge
MA
Alisha Millican
Southeast Rare Fungi Challenge
Crane Hill, AL
Deana Tempest Thomas
Northeast Rare Fungi Challenge
North Sciutate, RI
Rick Van de Poll
Sandwich, NH
Else Vellinga
Conservation Committee
Berklee, CA
Board of Directors
Nathan Wilson
FUNDIS President
North Falmouth, PA
Greg Mueller
FUNDIS Vice President
Chicago, IL
Gabriela D’Elia
FUNDIS Treasurer
Kingston, NY
Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
FUNDIS Secretary
Albany, NY
Adam DeMartino
FUNDIS Board Member
Brooklyn, NY
Todd Elliott
FUNDIS Board Member
Union Mills, NC
Anne Lee Foster
FUNDIS Board Member
Paonia, CO
Michael Heim
FUNDIS Board Member
Lafayette, CO
Emeritus Board Members
Sigrid Jakob, Ken Buegeleisen, Rob Stevenson, Lauryn Hart, Joanne Schwartz, Joan Kutcher, Barbara Thiers, Bitty Roy, Alija Mujic, Christian Schwarz
Founders
Bill Sheehan
Product Policy Institute, GrassRoots Recycling Network
Stephen Russell
Mycota, MycoMap, Hoosier Mushroom Society
