Craighead Institute Board of Directors
Tom Fiddaman
Tom works with Ventana Systems, where he develops software and consulting methods that help people to understand complex systems and make robust decisions. With Climate Interactive, he developed the C-ROADS simulator, a simple, widely-used model that connects country emissions commitments to future climate projections. He has done extensive energy-economic modeling, bringing together industry, governments, and environmental organizations. He has also build models for residential real estate mass appraisal, STEM workforce dynamics, B2B e-market strategy, commodity cycles, and marketing science. Tom is the Chairman of the Bridger Canyon Property Owners’ Association, working on land use issues and zoning in the Bridger/Bangtail region.
Kent Madin
Kent is the Vice-President and Director of Boojum Expeditions, Inc. and Honorary Consul of Mongolia for Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. He is the founder of the Boojum Charitable Fund, a non-profit supporting social projects in Mongolia. He also serves on the board of the Montana Center for International Visitors.
Eldon J. Spencer, Jr.
Eldon is a named shareholder in the Minneapolis law firm of Leonard, O'Brien, Spencer, Gale & Sayre, Ltd. He graduated from Carleton College (Magna Cum Laude) in 1969; University of California Berkley (MA in Economics/Forestry) in 1971 and Harvard Law School, where he served as a Senior Editor of the Harvard Law Review in 1974. His major areas of interest include Real Estate/Environmental Law. A former NCAA All-American freestyle wrestler and U.S. Finals Olympic Participation, "Eldie" is also an adjunct professor of law at both Hamline University School of Law and William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, and a former Chair of the Bloomington, Minnesota Planning Commission.
Tony Thompson
Tony is a conservation biologist who operates his family’s Willow Lake Farm in Windom, Minn., where he raises corn and soybeans, and manages a large expanse (250 acres) of native prairie for seed harvest. He also oversees a practical, farm-based program for the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Minnesota in sustainable agriculture and actively works to preserve wildlife habitat and movement corridors in his region.
Danielle Chi
Danielle Chi, Ph.D. – Danielle has over 30 years of experience working in resource management and conservation. She discovered her love of wildlife while pursuing a Master’s degree in psychology at San Diego State University in 1989, where she studied the behavior of captive cheetahs. In 1991, she continued to Utah State University where she began a doctoral program under Dr. Barrie Gilbert. Following completion of her PhD., she served in a wide range of Federal positions including Senior Wildlife Biologist (US Fish and Wildlife Service), Regional Wildlife Program Lead (US Forest Service), Intermountain Regional Director for Natural Resources (US Forest Service), and California Deputy State Director for Resources (Bureau of Land Management), a position she retired from February 2024. During her 25 years of Federal service, she worked on a wide range of issues, including but not limited to, wetlands, special status species, carnivore conservation, management of roadless areas, renewable energy development, and broad scale land management and conservation planning. She currently resides in Fair Oaks, CA with her husband, Mike Roberts.
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