WW’s all-volunteer Board of Directors guide the organization, serve as ambassadors, and provide professional expertise. Some of the Board knew and remain inspired by founders Dottie, Connie, and Joy; all are involved in our community and are deeply passionate about WW’s mission. Questions about the Board should be directed to Executive Director Will Roush. 

Denali Barron, Board President

Denali grew up hiking and skiing in the Roaring Fork Valley and moved to Aspen full-time in 2012. As a teacher and mentor with the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES) education program, she works to connect young people to the amazing place we live. Denali is inspired and humbled by the natural world, and she loves Wilderness Workshop’s tireless advocacy on its behalf. She and her husband Adam live at the Hallam Lake Nature Preserve in Aspen with their two children.

Ted Zukoski, Vice President

Ted first came to Colorado after college, working on Tim Wirth’s successful 1986 Senate campaign. After a stint as a junior policy assistant to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Ted graduated from Yale Law School in 1992. He then worked as an attorney for conservation groups including Earthjustice, Western Resource Advocates, and since 2019 for the Center for Biological Diversity. His work has included litigation and advocacy to protect wildlands, wildlife, communities, and the climate. He fell in love with the White River National Forest on a backpacking trip in the Flat Tops Wilderness in 1990, and has lived in Colorado since 1995.

Andy Welgos, Treasurer

Andy is a Certified Public Accountant and Partner with Reese Henry & Company in Aspen. With nearly 10 years of accounting and tax experience, he brings a unique perspective to the company and its clients. He provides leadership to the team as well as hands-on involvement in financial statement preparation, tax preparation, and accounting services to clients of all types. A lifelong resident of Aspen, Andy takes full advantage of the active lifestyle that the Valley has to offer. He enjoys skiing, mountain biking, fishing, rafting, camping, and ice hockey. But most of all he loves spending time with his wife, Mandy, and their three children, Abby, Georgia, and Jack.

Stephanie Ayala, Secretary

Stephanie is the Grants Manager for the Catena Foundation where she manages grants for six program areas: Clean Energy, Civic Engagement, Immigration, Watershed Health, Trails and Youth Cycling, and Native Partnerships. Stephanie grew up in Carbondale where she has enjoyed skiing, biking, hiking, and volunteering. Stephanie recently joined Voces Unidas de las Montañas, where she helps advocate for the Latino community. She says, “Having WW working full-time on conserving our public lands is extremely important, especially as we see our community growing rapidly. I truly admire WW’s community programs and as a Latina, I am excited for Defiende and the involvement of the Latino community.”

Gordon Bronson

Gordon Bronson was born and raised in the Roaring Fork Valley. His family moved to the valley in the 1970s and instilled in him a passion for adventure in the outdoors, a love of the Rocky Mountains, and a deep sense of responsibility for protecting wild places. Early in his career, Gordon served in the Obama Administration, first in the Department of the Interior and then at the White House working on a portfolio of topics related to energy and the environment. Gordon’s path led him to real estate development, where he found mentors who saw their work as studying and enhancing the human habitat. As a Partner at Continuum, he focuses on projects that blend sustainability and human-centered design. Gordon grew up skiing competitively, and remains an avid skier, rock climber, mountaineer, cyclist and endurance athlete, competing in multi-sport ultras each year.

Chris Dominick

Chris credits the time spent growing up at his family’s dude ranch in Sunlight Basin, Wyoming, as a formative introduction to the power of intact ecosystems. Whether it’s the peace he finds cross-country skiing alone through sagebrush, or the bonds he feels while counting wildflower species on hikes with his family, he is inspired by Wilderness Workshop’s dedication to preserving all forms of our connection to wild places. Chris is honored to follow in the footsteps of his grandmother, Mary Dominick, who served on the WW board for 27 years, from 1997-2024. Currently the Managing Director of ZipFit Ski Boot Liners, Chris and his wife, Alex, live in Carbondale with their son.

Cici Fox

Cici became a WW board member in XXXX. Her mother, Dottie Fox, was one of the founders of the Aspen Wilderness Workshop and stayed involved for close to 30 years. Cici wanted to continue to carry on her mother’s legacy and passion for protecting the environment and is honored to serve on the Board. Cici’s life and spirit has been spent living in the Roaring Fork Valley, always cherishing our great outdoors. She particularly enjoys WW’s public programs and events, which are a great chance to learn about the natural world and to connect new people with the important work of protecting public lands.

Allyn Harvey

Allyn Harvey is the principal at Allyn Harvey Communications, a public relations and media management company he built around more than two decades of award-winning journalism at newspapers in Colorado and Washington state. He lives and works in Carbondale where until recently he served on the elected Town Board of Trustees. He helped found the Sopris Sun, Carbondale’s local nonprofit newspaper. Allyn is an avid outdoorsman and powerful advocate for our local public lands.

Craig Mackey

Craig founded Mackey Partners, LLC, a firm focused on the protection and management, recreational access, and use of America’s public lands and waters. He was a Director of Business for Water Stewardship, a 1,100-member business coalition working on sustainable water use and healthy rivers in the Colorado River Basin; he was a founder of and served as Director of Government Affairs for the Outdoor Industry Association. Craig has worked in the use and management of public lands and waters for the last 30 years on issues related to river protection, outdoor recreation, outfitting and guiding, and wilderness and backcountry designations. He has served as a board member of numerous other prominent environmental organizations.

Michael McVoy

Michael dedicates a substantial portion of his time to nonprofit work. A former board member at the Aspen Valley Land Trust,  he also serves on the Pitkin County Retirement Board, the Roaring Fork Transit Authority Retirement Board, heads the Roaring Fork Community Development Corporation, and is on the board of Aspen Journalism, among others. He has owned a bookstore, worked as the publisher of the Aspen Times, and was a restauranteur. But his primary occupation is being a financial adviser in Aspen, an industry he has been involved with since 1982. Michael especially appreciates the core mission of WW to protect existing wilderness and designate new wilderness.

Aron Ralston

Aron Ralston is an American outdoorsman, mechanical engineer, and motivational speaker known for having survived a canyoneering accident in southeastern Utah in 2003 during which he amputated his own right forearm in order to free himself from a dislodged boulder which had him trapped in Blue John Canyon for five days. The incident is documented in Ralston’s autobiography “Between a Rock and a Hard Place” and is the subject of the 2010 film “127 Hours.” Aron has been involved with WW for many years, beginning with the Hidden Gems campaign in the mid-2000s.

Michael Stranahan

Michael was a self-described “indoors person” until he moved to the Roaring Fork Valley, where he reveled in the discovery of the backcountry and soon became an outdoors person. A civic leader, he has served on several environmental, science, and educational non-profit boards, including as former chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute and the Aspen Global Change Insitute. WW founder Connie Harvey asked him to join the board in 2001, and he’s been involved ever since. Michael is grateful to live in a place with so much outdoors to get into. He wishes to preserve it and share it with all the world.

Elizabeth Velasco

Liz joined the WW Board in February 2021. Born in Mexico, she has lived in Colorado for over 18 years and worked with diverse teams while managing the Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch. Liz has worked with the Western Slope Latino Community – first with the local School District, then as a medical Interpreter; her work has expanded to include community interpreting, translation, voice-over, and consulting. Elected to the Colorado House of Representatives (HD-57) in 2022, she is a Board Member of Young Latino Philanthropists, an adjunct professor at Colorado Mountain College, and volunteerrs with Voces Unidas de las Montañas.