Staff
Bryan von Lossberg - Executive Director
Bryan brings over twenty years of business and non-profit management experience to AERO, having served as the Executive Director of the Tahoe-Baikal Institute (TBI) and as a program and engineering manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials. At TBI Bryan helped train emerging environmental leaders in an immersive, place-based watershed education program and international cultural exchange between Lake Tahoe and Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. At JPL he worked on several projects, including the Hubble Space Telescope and Mars Pathfinder programs. Upon returning to Missoula in 2009, he founded an energy conservation business, Commons Link, which uses real time energy use information and feedback (the “Prius Effect”) to help homeowners conserve energy. His formal education includes an MS in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Bryan has been recognized for his conservation work by the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment and was a recipient of a Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship while at the University of Montana. He is particularly grateful for his wife, Genevieve Jessop Marsh, an inspirational community of friends, cold Montana beer, and trout that look past his marginal fly fishing skills. Email Bryan
Kevin Moore - Sustainable Ag & Food Systems Program Manager
Kevin is excited to be AERO’s Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Program Manager. He is responsible for working with a broad array of people to further develop this program in a way that meets the needs of AERO members and promotes the organization’s vision. Sown in his grandparent’s garden, Kevin’s interest in food and agriculture has led him into different aspects of the food system, such as working in food service during college, and volunteering on an organic farm in West Africa. In 2005, Kevin earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Policy from Fort Lewis College in Colorado, which focused on environmental justice, public land management, and sustainable agriculture. Kevin then moved to Montana as an AmeriCorps member in Grow Montana’s FoodCorps project, and spent two years helping to pilot a local food program at the University of Montana-Western. Kevin then enrolled in the University of Montana’s Environmental Studies graduate program and emphasized food and agriculture through both in-class and on-farm coursework, as well as through internships with the Grow Montana coalition and North Carolina’s Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP). Kevin was selected as a 2009/2010 recipient of the Montana Good Works Fellowship, and is in the process of conducting research on the development of an online local food guide for Montana. While in school he has been coordinating the statewide Farm to Cafeteria Connections network, which facilitates dialogue and provides resources to Montanans working on local food programs in institutions. Kevin is looking forward to bringing a renewed enthusiasm to the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems program, and is as eager to serve the AERO community as he is to learn from it. Email Kevin
Sarah Lesnar - Energy Program Manager
Sarah helps facilitate community-based energy conservation initiatives, organizes tours of on-the-ground renewable energy and efficiency projects, and works with members to advocate for clean energy policy. Before joining AERO Sarah worked as a policy organizer for the Land Stewardship Project in Minnesota, where she organized rural citizens against factory farm expansion in the Upper Midwest and in support of sustainable agriculture and stewardship. Sarah has spent many seasons working in Montana, including organic farming, hydrology work for the Forest Service and concessions in Glacier National Park. Sarah grew up in rural Southeastern Minnesota along the Mississippi River bluffs. She graduated in 2008 from University of Minnesota Twin-Cities with a BS in Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Email Sarah
Caroline Wallace - Membership and Communications Manager
Caroline served with the AERO energy program as an AmeriCorps VISTA member from January 2011 to January 2012 and is staying on as the Membership and Communications Manager. Caroline comes to us with a deep-rooted belief in the value of community, a pressing need for local communities to once again be self-sufficient, and the great satisfaction that can come from living locally. Caroline is no stranger to community organizing; her experiences include work with non-profit and community groups at the Community Design Assistance Center in Blacksburg, Virginia and at the Catawba Sustainability Center. She has a degree in Landscape Architecture from Virginia Tech. Email Caroline
Grant Williams - Energy Data Coordinator
Grant is a student intern with AERO working as the Energy Data Coordinator for the Repower56 campaign to provide renewable energy source calculations, data analysis, and real-time data display. Grant is passionate about the necessary transition to alternative energy sources and the importance of localized energy and agricultural production. Grant was raised in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains outside of Denver; an environment that developed a life-long love for the outdoors and environmental preservation. Grant is finishing his final semester at Carroll College in Mathematics and Physics and has plans to pursue a career in Energy Engineering.
