Staff

  • Bill Hodge

    Bill is the Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewardship Coordinator. Before joining The Wilderness Society in May of 2011, Bill had already started Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards (now a project of TWS) to serve 11 wilderness areas across the Southern Appalachians.

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  • Brent Martin

    Brent Martin has spent most of his adult life working in forest and farmland conservation in the mountains of north Georgia and western North Carolina. Most of this time was spent with Georgia Forestwatch and the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee.

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  • Hugh Irwin

    Hugh is Landscape Conservation Planner and joined the southern Appalachian office of The Wilderness Society in November 2011 after a fifteen year run as Conservation Planner for the Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition.

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  • Jill Gottesman

    Jill Gottesman brings the skills of a diverse work history in nonprofit management, environmental education, wilderness therapy and social work to her role of Outreach Coordinator for The Wilderness Society’s southeastern regional office.

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  • Meredith Gower

    Meredith joined The Wilderness Society in January 2006 and currently focuses her time working with donors in the Southeast to “keep it wild” in the Southern Appalachians and other special landscapes across the United States.

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  • Spencer Phillips, PhD

    Spencer Phillips, PhD, is Senior Director for Economics Research for The Wilderness Society.  With more than 20 years' experience in the field, his goal is to help people, communities and institutions understand and attain the benefits of improved land stewardship.

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  • Travis Belote, Ph.D.

    Travis Belote has served as a research ecologist in the Northern Rockies Office of The Wilderness Society in Bozeman, MT since 2009.

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