WBFI Staff

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Emma Bennett, Executive Director
Emma Bennett has worked in association management for over 7 years with groups focused on resource conservation. For other organizations, she has focused on program management including standards development, fundraising, and event coordination. Emma is a South Dakota native, with a degree in Business Management with an emphasis in Global Business and Nonprofit Management from Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, CA. Emma can be reached at [email protected]



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​Kristen Thayer, Program Director
Kristen, known as Krissy to friends received her education in Business Marketing and Management at Lake Area Technical Institute. Her experience as an Office and Marketing Manager makes her a perfect match for the WBFI team. With her background in agriculture, she pulls in a great rural work ethic and taking pride in everything she does. Krissy’s time outside the office is spent volunteering around her community and chairing the local Action Club. She enjoys the beautiful great outdoors of South Dakota, yes, even in negative degree weather, as much as she can. What makes her the happiest is lending a helping hand wherever she can. 



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Jenna McCollough, Partnered Researcher
Jenna is a PhD student at the University of New Mexico and the Museum of Southwestern Biology, where she studies evolution, systematics, and natural history of birds in the South Pacific. An Idaho native, Jenna is a third-generation female birder and regularly birds across the western U.S. and internationally. She is also an associate editor of the North American Birds magazine and began working with WBFI in 2021. Jenna can be reached on Twitter @Jenna_merle or via email at [email protected]

WBFI is managed by Nonprofit Resources, an association management company. Nonprofit Resources is currently the most experienced, and only accredited organization of its type in a five-state area. To learn more about services provided, please visit Nonprofit Resources.