AFRC Staff
Travis Joseph
President
Travis was born and raised in Springfield, Oregon but spent eight years in Washington D.C. working for the U.S. House of Representatives. He was a sen[...]
Lawson Fite
General Counsel
Lawson began his career as a Trial Attorney in the Wildlife and Marine Resources Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, focusing on litigation und[...]
Cindi Kaneshige
Office Manager
Cindi grew up in Portland and is a third generation Oregonian. She began working for AFRC’s predecessor, the Northwest Forestry Association, in 1987[...]
Sara Ghafouri
Staff Attorney
Sara Ghafouri joins AFRC after practicing almost three years as an associate at Haglund Kelley LLP, a Portland-based law firm. During her time at Hagl[...]
Matt Comisky
Washington State Manager
Matt was born and raised in Seattle but enjoyed the woods from an early age through camping, hiking, and eventually exploring the backroads of western[...]
Andy Geissler
Federal Timber Program Director
Andy moved to Oregon to join AFRC as its field forester from Washington state, where he worked for six years in the woods of Lewis County.[...]
Heath Heikkila
Government Affairs
Heath works at the intersection of government, policy, and communications advocating for solutions to some of the Pacific Northwest’s most challengi[...]
Irene Jerome
Oregon/Idaho Consultant
Irene grew up on the family homestead west of Maupin, Oregon. Her ancestors traveled the Oregon Trail in the 1840s originally settling in the Willamet[...]
Tom Partin
OR/WA/Panhandle Consultant
Tom is a native Oregonian and grew up in a logging family in Prineville, Oregon. His love of the outdoors led him to studying forestry at Oregon State[...]
Jerry Jensen
California Consultant
After graduation from Humboldt State University, I served two years in the US Peace Corps, 1964-66 in an applied forestry research program in the Hind[...]
Scott Stawiarski
California Consultant
Scott retired from the Forest Service as a Supervisory Forester with 32 years of experience planning and implementing forest management programs and p[...]
Jerry van Hees
California Consultant
Jerry was born on the east coast and studied forestry at Paul Smith’s College in upstate New York. When he finished college, Jerry moved to Central [...]
Nick Smith
Public Affairs
As a member of multi-generation farming family, Nick has a passion for natural resources and rural communities. Nick has a background in public policy[...]