State Offices & Staff

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Jono McKinney

CEO / President

Before coming to MCC, Jono was the director of an environmental education program in Alaska, an instructor with NOLS for ten years, and a high school teacher. With this background in experiential learning, Jono’s focus has been to make MCC a premier AmeriCorps national service experience and one of the most fulfilling outdoor learning adventures you’ve ever had. Expect to see Jono swinging a tool alongside you on a project or helping you decipher a topo map. Jono lives in Bozeman with his wife, Laurie, and two young children, Bridger and Erin.

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Lee Gault

Program Director

Lee has been with MCC since 1995 and has served as Program Director since 1998. Prior to joining MCC, Lee spent 10 years with the Colorado and North Carolina Outward Bound Schools. He has also served as a wilderness therapist, classroom teacher; and counselor. He holds master’s degrees in Experiential Education and Counseling. Lee, his wife Teresa, and daughter Sadie recently moved to Bozeman and look forward to putting down roots in their beautiful new home town.

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Wendy Wigert

Director of Operations

Wendy has worked with MCC since 1995. She grew up in Ohio and lived in Boston where she met her partner in life, Sven. The two moved to Bozeman in 1993. Wendy enjoys spending quality time with Sven and their two children, Svea and Jack, finding bugs, singing songs, reading books, and playing with Legos. If you’ve got a question, Wendy will most likely have the answer—if you can catch her with a free moment.

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Shannon Stober

Program Manager

Shannon is a true National Service junkie who is known to suffer from chronic enthusiasm. Her experience with AmeriCorps in Montana includes two VISTA service terms, employment in the Governor’s Office of Community Service as the statewide Training Officer, and a run with the Montana Campus Compact as the Campus Corps Program Director. A native of Colorado, she graduated from Fort Lewis College in 2002 with a BA in Sociology. Shannon can most often be found singing a song and looking for trouble with her big mutt Monty

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Doug Posdon

Accountant

Originally from Delaware, Doug moved to Colorado and got his MBA from the University of Denver in 1999. Not a fan of long lift lines, he moved to Montana in 2004, and the Headwaters became his stomping ground. In his spare time, he honed his accounting skills at Moonlight before joining MCC in 2008. An avid outdoor enthusiast, Doug can be seen skiing and mountain biking around the mountains of southwest Montana as often as fatherhood permits. A self-admitted sports fanatic, you can also find him managing & playing for the MCC softball team during the summertime. Doug and his wife, Andrea, have two sons, Jeremy and Jacob, as well as a dog named Bennett.

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Jennifer Rusnak

Recruitment and Outreach Coordinator

Originally from Ohio, Jen came to Bozeman for the first time in 2005, after living in Gainesville, where she earned a BA from the University of Florida. She left briefly to explore Oregon in 2008 but was excited to return in the spring of 2009 to join MCC. She brings with her an abundance of nonprofit experience and a passion for youth development. Jen loves music, coffee, cooking, spending time outdoors, playing sports, building ceramic vessels, reading Forest Service cabin journals, and hanging out with her dog, Buckley.

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Aimee Severson

Member Management Coordinator

Aimee is originally from the great state of Wisconsin. During college she caught the travel bug and explored Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and Europe. Upon graduation she realized she had never been out west so she moved to Montana in 2007 to be a corpsmember and fell in love with the mountains. She enjoys the outside, trees, music, dancing, grapes, and the color green.

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Jesse Gentner

Accounting Technician and Payroll Specialist

Having lived in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Jackson, Wyoming, Jesse settled in Bozeman where he received a BA in Finance and Economics (with distinction) from Montana State University in 2002. Before joining MCC, Jesse gave in to his love of snowboarding and perfected his terrain park building skills at Big Sky. In his spare time you can find him collecting coffee rings on his desk, winning karaoke competitions, watching TV on DVD, golfing, and hanging out with his significant other, Chuck. Jesse’s superpower is sarcasm.

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Gregg Harris

IT Administrator

With over 20 years of IT experience, Gregg has been the system and network manager for MCC since 2006. Originally from California, he and his wife Renee live in a 112-year-old house with their cat, Buster. Following the recent completion of a rather lengthy renovation of their historic home, Gregg now spends most of his available free time fly fishing, working with environmental organizations, and xeriscaping his yard.

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Christine Armstrong

Administrative Assistant

A Montana native, Christine dabbled in Motion Picture and Film studies at MSU before ultimately graduating with a BS in Community Health. When not busy donating her time to area nonprofits, she can be found hiking, camping, boating, reading a good book, swing dancing, finding the best movies, baking recipes, and salsas, and finding the best angles possible with her Sony point-and-shoot. Christine joined the MCC team in the summer of 2011.

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