{"id":8618,"date":"2023-01-30T08:50:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T15:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=8618"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:13","slug":"meet-sbfcs-new-executive-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=8618","title":{"rendered":"Meet SBFC&#8217;s new Executive Director!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-30-084747.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8619\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-30-084747.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-30-084747.jpg 584w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-30-084747-300x105.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>Greetings SBFC members and friends,<\/p>\n<p>It is my privilege to announce the hiring of Ryan Ghelfi as the next Executive Director of the Selway Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation. Ryan brings with him a lifelong passion for all things Wilderness. Ryan has a degree in Business Administration\/Accounting from Southern Oregon University. In his resume, Ryan describes himself as \u201can outdoor professional with a wide breadth of experience in the mountains and in business with a lifelong passion for Wilderness, trails, and maintaining access to our vast public lands.\u201d When you meet Ryan, you will see why we are so excited to have him leading our team.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan and his family will be moving from Ashland Oregon to McCall, Idaho in February. Ryan and his wife have two children with a third due in April. In Ashland, Ryan owned two Wilderness related businesses and was the treasurer for the Siskiyou Mountain Club. Ryan was a professional long distance runner from 2014-2020. He held speed records for ascents of Half Dome and Mt. Shasta. Please join me in welcoming Ryan into the SBFC community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-30-084813.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8620\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-30-084813.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-30-084813.jpg 269w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-30-084813-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a>Ryan will begin his new position on March 1 after spending time working with outgoing Executive Director, Sally Ferguson, to assure a smooth transition.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nJim Heidelberger; SBFC Board Chair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings SBFC members and friends, It is my privilege to announce the hiring of Ryan Ghelfi as the next Executive Director of the Selway Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation. Ryan brings with him a lifelong passion for all things Wilderness. Ryan has a degree in Business Administration\/Accounting from Southern Oregon University. In his resume, Ryan describes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8621,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618\/revisions\/8621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}