Our Advisory Council

  • Kimberly Miller

    Skokomish Tribal Member

  • Redwolf Krise

    Squaxin Island Tribal Member

  • Exhtep Gaspar

    Q’anjob’al Maya Nation

Our Staff and Board

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Julianne Gale⎢Executive Director, President

Julianne Gale dedicated her life to climate justice in 2015 and co-founded Mason County Climate Justice in 2018. A volunteer community organizer with nearly two decades of experience, Julianne has also worked professionally in tribal youth programming, education, oysters, youth-led economic justice, theatre for social change, union construction work, healing art for survivors of domestic violence, community mental health, nonprofit management, and more.

Julianne was valedictorian at the University of Southern California, where she earned an M.A. in Teaching, an M.A. in Applied Theatre Arts, and a B.S. in Computer Science.

Sherri Dysart⎢Treasurer

Sherri has resided in Washington State for most of her life, and currently lives on a small farm in Mason County. She cares for her horse, two goats, a flock of 12 chickens, and one cat to rule them all! She graduated from Washington State University in 1982, with a B.S. in Forest Management. During her college years, Sherri worked for the USFS Dale Ranger District (OR) as well as the USFS Twisp Ranger District (WA) as a field technician. From 1983 until retirement in 2013, she worked for a privately-owned industrial timber company in Washington. In retirement, she volunteered with the League of Women Voters of Washington as Issue Chair-Forests during the 2021 and 2022 Washington State legislative sessions. She served on the Board of Directors for the Center for Responsible Forestry at the organization’s inception. As a mother of two children, she asks a question each morning, “how can I be a better ancestor?” The answer is always “Protect the forests!”

Marisa Kaneshiro⎢Secretary

Bio coming soon.

Michael (Firefly) Siptroth⎢Board Member

Firefly has been an active environmental justice advocate and educator for decades, through personal stewardship, teaching environmental science at local elementary schools, and being a board member at the Pacific NW Salmon Center in Belfair, WA. He has protested against nuclear power/weapons and militarism, which are huge contributors to the climate crisis.

He believes in the power of nature, regenerative agriculture, and legacy forests to help heal wildlife and humans and address the climate crisis. He advocates for decreasing consumption and using resources more effectively and equitably, especially when it comes to energy, transportation, affordable housing, and public spaces.

Robert D. Wilson-Hoss⎢Board Member

Robert D. Wilson-Hoss received his J.D. from the University of Washington in 1978, served several terms as Mason County Judicial Commissioner, and worked in civil rights, nonprofit, and real property law from 1981-2021. He also served in the US Peace Corps in North Africa, worked for the Evergreen Legal Services Native American Project, helped establish the Northwest Intertribal Court System, and was the first Reservation Attorney for the Squaxin Island Tribe.

Named Mason County Citizen of the Year in 2018, Rob has received numerous awards for his community work. Rob was part of establishing Mason County’s local homeless shelter, Habitat for Humanity chapter, domestic violence shelter, and YMCA.

Rob and his wife, Wendy, live on a small conservation forest in rural Mason County. They have three children and eight grandchildren and were also foster parents to many. His landscape and vegetable garden have been featured twice on Mason County’s Garden Tour.