Staff

Dana Stolzman

Executive Director

Dana Stolzman has been the Executive Director of Salmonid Restoration Federation (SRF) for over 12 years as well as the Agenda Coordinator for the Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference. Dana previously worked on Alaska salmon campaigns, producing the Coho Confab, and for ten years worked with an advocacy group that helped to list coho salmon as a threatened species in California. Dana’s background is in community and statewide organizing. She was the Bay Area director of a citizen’s initiative campaign to ban old-growth logging in California and she worked to organize labor leaders in solidarity with the Central American labor movement.

Dana graduated with honors from UC Berkeley with an English degree and minor in Conservation Resource Studies. She specializes in herding cats, whitewater kayaking, and coalition building. She is also an avid foodie which is why she cares so much about your eating experience at SRF events.

Lindsay Davis Kelsey

Program Associate

Lindsay was born and raised in Tempe, AZ. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Art History with a focus in Modernism and Documentary Arts from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ. Prior to joining SRF, Lindsay worked in various hospitality and outdoor industries across Arizona, Oregon, and Switzerland. She moved to Humboldt County in 2020 and began working with SRF as the Project Assistant in March of 2021. She is proud to support SRF’s mission of promoting restoration and stewardship of California's salmonids and waterways.

Denise Dills

Bookkeepper

Denise grew up in San Rafael, and has lived in California all her life. She has raised three boys, and has had her own bookkeeping business since 1987. She enjoys doing bookkeeping; but her passion is helping with wildlife rescue and rehabilitation.

Chris Tevini

Streamflow Monitor Coordinator

Chris has extensive experience in the field of California native salmonids. Christopher has dedicated over 7 years to working with Northern California salmon. During his time as a fisheries technician with Cal Poly Humboldt, he made significant contributions to the Humboldt Bay Coho monitoring program. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology with a concentration in Ecology from Cal Poly Humboldt.

Christine Burchinal

Streamflow Monitoring Assistant

Christine was born and raised in San Jose, CA. She grew up hiking, backpacking, and frolicking in natural spaces with family, which instilled a connection to and desire to protect and conserve natural resources. She served two terms with the Watershed Stewards Program (WSP), where she built extensive field experience across Trinity, Humboldt, and Mendocino Counties, including streamflow and water quality monitoring, stream habitat surveys, meadows delineations, spawner and snorkel surveys, and the design, development, and implementation of instream habitat restoration projects. Passionate about community-based restoration, Christine is stoked to contribute to SRF’s low-flow monitoring efforts and flow enhancement projects in Southern Humboldt.

Christine holds a B.S. in Environmental Science, with a concentration in Earth Science and a minor in Sustainability from the University of Portland. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, hiking, whitewater rafting, climbing, exploring the farmers market, and creating stained glass art.

Nancy Stevens

Project Coordinator

Nancy is originally from the East Coast and relocated to Humboldt County in 2000, drawn by the region’s towering redwoods and wild rivers. Shortly after arriving, she was invited to participate in a training to identify and count salmon redds—an experience that launched close to two decades of work blending her business operations expertise in support of watershed restoration and conservation throughout the region.

Nancy currently serves as a Board Member of the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District, where she sits on the Water Rights and Instream Flows Committees. She works part-time and when outside the office, is deeply engaged in strengthening the local arts community by supporting the production of year-round events.