Ray Williams, Mayberry Property Manager

Ray Williams has lived in Moab off and on since 1976 when he spent the summers working for his Uncle Mitch at Tag-A-Long Tours running shuttles, providing kitchen packing support, and fulfilling many other roles including as a jet boat captain for shuttles to Spanish Bottom. He moved here permanently in 1986 and recently restored his great-grandfather’s home on 100 N as his residence. He is the propagation center manager at Mayberry and the general repair man, logistics coordinator and all-around troubleshooter. Ray has previously filled his time in Moab driving for Sysco, working as the frozen food manager at the Moonflower Community Cooperative, and spending a season with Western Rivers. He can often be found at Mayberry enjoying the time away from people, and figuring out how to meet our most recent challenge.

When not at Mayberry, Ray can be found doing all manner of fix-it things, or cooking amazing food.

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Gavin Belfry, Project Manager, Native Plant Propagation

Gavin moved to Moab in the Summer of 2021, after graduating from University of Tennessee with a B.S. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, focusing his studies on Plant Community Ecology. His experience includes conducting forest health surveys across 5 watersheds within the West Elks Range of the Rockies, leading field crews for the USGS surveying restoration efforts across the Colorado Plateau, and studying fungal pathogens that infest common crops in East Tennessee.  Gavin joined the Rim to Rim team early in 2023.  He coordinates field crews working on restoration projects, manages native plant materials collection and propagation for future projects, and only occasionally bores his coworkers with too many plant facts. In his free time, you can find him lecturing his dog Moose about native plants, weaving baskets, and dangling his wife off of cliffs (at the end of a climbing rope).

Bryce Rogers, Project Coordinator & Restoration Specialist

Bryce is an experienced planning professional who manages Rim to Rim’s revegetation and restoration projects. In this role, she develops scopes of work, oversees project operations and budgets and manages partner collaboration.

Bryce most recently served as an associate planner for Grand County, where she reviewed and advised on commercial and residential developments and managed zone changes. Previously, she worked as the City of Moab’s assistant planner and floodplain administrator. Bryce has also held positions in numerous other fields, serving as a geophysicist, high-school math teacher and technical analyst for Shell Oil Company.

Bryce holds a B.S. in Earth and Environmental Science from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and earned a secondary mathematics teaching endorsement through the University of Utah.

When not working, Bryce can be found hunting mushrooms in the mountains or chasing her kids around the desert.

Sophia Fisher, Fire & Flood Outreach Specialist

Sophia is a public information professional and journalist dedicated to producing accessible, evocative information to mold a better world. At Rim to Rim, she empowers the Moab community to reduce fire and flood risk and nurture healthy creek corridors. Sophia previously worked as an award-winning reporter for the Moab Times-Independent and as a program developer for the nonprofit Science Moab, where she still serves as a board member. A University of Chicago graduate, Sophia traded academia for axes when she first moved to Utah in 2018 to work for a conservation corps. In her free time, she enjoys backpacking, river rafting, reading, and pointing out cool clouds in the big desert sky.

Jeanine Saia, Grant Administrator & Bookkeeper

Bio coming soon

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