Ellen Stein, a believer in community conversations with a background that includes the Peace Corps in West Africa, an agriculture conservation organization in northwest Colorado and environmental and media positions, has joined The Durango Herald’s editorial board.
Greg Moore has also come on board on a part-time basis. He should be familiar to readers as a former Herald sports writer and Outdoors editor.
They succeed Megan Graham, who became La Plata County’s first public affairs officer in April.
Stein has most recently been director of development for Axis Health System, and has raised money and membership for several other local organizations such as KDUR radio and Great Old Broads for Wilderness. She has a bachelor’s degree from Colorado College and a master’s from Tufts University in public policy and planning, and was the initial executive director of the Mountain Studies Institute in Silverton in 2002. She was a founding board member and DJ at KSJC Silverton Community Radio. She has lived in Durango since 2005.
Stein wrote in her application for the position, “I would especially love to convene, lead and listen to community conversations important to our region. ...”
Moore has a degree in literature and writing from the University of California at San Diego. Besides the six years he previously spent at the Herald, his experience includes working as a college English instructor, as a technical writer crafting user guides for digital equipment and as communications specialist for Trout Unlimited.
Stein and Moore join editorial board chairman Richard G. Ballantine; Bill Roberts, editorial page editor; Doug Bennett, CEO of Ballantine Communications; and Suzy Meyer of Cortez. Meyer was formerly publisher of the Cortez Journal.
The editorial board meets to consider editorial topics and opinion commentary that will appear in print and online, and to interview political candidates and issue advocates.
