Jeri Meeks joined the site Steward Program after retiring from Arizona State University, where she served as the Associate Director of Finance for the Office of the Senior VP, Research.  

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Jeri supports the Program and Foundation with her 30 years of not-for-profit business management experience, grant writing and website support skills.  She is a lobbyist for the ASU Retirees Association and the Arizona Site Steward Program Foundation.  Jeri is a Project Archaeology Master Teacher. 

Trudy Mertens has been a site steward almost since it's inception. Her dedication to the site steward program has been extraordinary. She is currently an ARC for both the Agua Fria and Cave Creek Regions. She is also a member of the FAFNM (Friends of the Agua Fria National Monument) and very active in it's Cultural Resources Committee.

Yvonne Naimey is a Senior Public Health Sanitarian with the Arizona Department of Health Services Office of Environmental Health. In this role she supports schools with School Garden food safety practices and garden certification. She also conducts inspections at various food facilities within Arizona. Yvonne has been in the environmental health and food safety field for 15+ years including on land, in air, and at sea. She is a registered sanitarian with the state of Arizona and the National Environmental Health Association and is credentialed by FDA as an agent commissioned to perform activities in Arizona relating to food.

Doug Newton has been a Site Steward for over 25 years. For 15 years, he monitored a site in the Eagletail Mountains in west central Arizona. Then he moved to sites in the Tonopah Region. After retiring, Dough attended ASU and completed a degree in plant biology which involved preparing a flora study of the plants growing the in Eagletail Mountains, of which there are 300 species. Dough currently serves as Regional Coordinator for Tonopah and Central Arizona regions. 

Van Newville is a second generation Arizonan-born in Globe, Arizona. He is ARC for both Tonopah and Central Regions and is very active in field visits to the majority of the sites in both Regions. He is in the field, on average, at least 2 weekdays a week . Van has been requested for some visits based upon his past history. He has been a Site Steward since May of 2013. Since becoming a Site Steward he has accumulated more than 2000 hours in the field. Before becoming a Site Steward Van spent many hours exploring back county Arizona: via horseback , by canoe, and backpacking . He has been to the bottom of the north rim for a 5 day backpacking trip on Thunder River., canoed from Blythe to Yuma twice, and many similar experiences

Van is a past recipient of the Thief of Time award. The incident for this award involved human remains, pot hunting and desecration of a site. And many hours reviewing the damages with the Land Manager.

Jason Nez is Zuni Edgewater born for the Salt Clan.  His maternal grandfather is Tangle Clan and his paternal grandfather is from the Mexican Clan.  He has been an archaeologist in the four corners area for the past fourteen years and has surveyed, excavated and monitored sites all across his reservation during this time.  He has worked as an archaeologist for this tribe, various federal agencies and cultural resource management companies across the southwest.  He currently works on wildfires as a Firefighter, Archaeologist and a Resource Advisor.  Jason feels that his mission, as an archaeologist, is to help educate others about what we do as scientists and to help non-native people develop and understanding of who the 1st nations people are and their strong cultural connections to the world around us.  

Sergio is the program manager and health educator for the SunWise Skin Cancer Prevention Program. He received a Master of Public Administration from ASU and is originally from the Midwest. He has over a decade of community health education experience working in child/maternal health, injury prevention, chronic disease prevention and environmental health.

Wanda Raschkow joined Friends of Cedar Mesa in 2017 to develop a stewardship program for the Bureau of Land Management throughout Utah. That program helped lay the foundation for the current statewide, all-agency, Utah Cultural Site Stewardship Program (UCSS) administered by the Utah SHPO's office. Wanda currently serves as Regional Stewardship Coordinator for lands managed by the Forest Service and Utah's School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) and assists with the BLM's program within the Bears Ears region. She also manages FCM's Visit with Respect Ambassador program. Prior to joining FCM, Wanda worked at Death Valley National Park and the Palm Springs Office of the Bureau of Land Management.

Greta is a senior project manager for North Wind Resource Consulting, LLC (North Wind), and has served as program director for the company’s historic preservation team for the last five years. She completed her M.A. research at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she focused her research on carriage houses and how the function of these structures changed over time. Since relocating to Arizona in 2006, she has supervised archaeological excavations, architectural surveys and inventories, historic streetscape assessments, and historic preservation projects in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, as well as the U.S. Territory of Guam. She has also completed National Register of Historic Places nominations and determinations of eligibility and Cultural Landscape Inventories and Reports for ten National Parks. She is a skilled artifact analyst and is responsible for the in-field and laboratory analysis of historic artifacts recovered from all North Wind projects. Greta currently serves on the Historical Archaeology Advisory Committee (HAAC), an advisory body to the Governor’s Archaeology Advisory Commission (GAAC) which convenes on a quarterly basis to address issues related to the treatment of historic sites in Arizona. She is also vice chair of the City of Phoenix’s Historic Preservation Commission, an appointment she has held for the last two years.

Entering into the world of volunteer management without any experience or knowledge of how to administer such a program was challenging and motivating. Now, with 17 years of volunteer management experience behind me, it’s always a privilege to share with those who are new or less experienced in the field some of what I've learned in regards to volunteer engagement and coordination. My journey in volunteer management began in June of 2004 after having been given the task of rebuilding and strengthening a volunteer program for a law enforcement agency in Colorado. At the time, this program had approximately 300 volunteers and when I left in 2017 over 600 volunteers were actively serving the agency. Moving from Colorado to Arizona in 2017, I joined the Department of Economic Security and managed its volunteer program until I became the current Volunteer Program Manager for the AZ State Parks in January of 2020. Through the years it's been my pleasure to glean knowledge from some of the best in the field of volunteer management, and even more rewarding to bestow my knowledge with those who wish to improve their programs. 

As Program Manager for Pima County’s Office of Sustainability and Conservation, Cultural Resources & Historic Preservation Division, Dr. Courtney Rose focuses on ensuring that development and construction projects meet cultural resources requirements, managing cultural resources protections on rangelands and conservation lands, and overseeing the site stewards monitoring program. Prior to starting with Pima County in 2008, Dr. Rose worked in the private sector, while instructing archaeological field schools and teaching college-level courses in anthropology and archaeology. Her doctoral research focused on South American archaeology in Bolivia and she received her doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh in 2001.

Samantha Rubinson is a scientifically trained archaeologist who runs the Nevada Site Stewardship Program for the Nevada State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). She has a Ph.D. in Archaeometallurgy from the University of Bradford in Bradford, U.K.. She has worked as a professional archaeologist in both Europe and the U.S.. Since moving to Nevada in 2011, she has worked as a contract archaeologist and for SHPO. She has been in her current role for the last nine years.

Tina Snelgrove is a Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigations in Phoenix, AZ and has been with the agency since 2006. Prior to her assignment to the Intellectual/Cultural Property Group in late 2018, Tina has worked financial, crypto currency, asset forfeiture, human smuggling, human trafficking, and narcotics smuggling cases. Since receiving her first cultural property case, she has been completely captivated and has worked to identify and work cases either within Arizona or in transit through Arizona.  As part of her interest in cultural properties within Arizona, she became involved with the Arizona Site-Stewart program in January 2021.

Carmen Tirdea is an Epidemiologist with the Arizona Department of Health Services, Office of Environmental Health. She has a MPH from the University of Arizona. Carmen works with different programs within the Office of Environmental Health including the Climate and Health Program, Environmental Public Health Tracking Program, and Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program. Her main role includes supervising and planning program evaluation projects, designing, manipulating, and using databases for evaluation of health problems, and providing scientific and technical assistance to communities and outside partners.

Mary-Ellen is the Cultural Resources Compliance Manager, where she provides technical assistance to state, federal and local agencies, and tribes, involved the compliance process. She worked in the private sector for 28 years before coming to SHPO in 2013.