TEAM
We are part of a community united by love for this land, invested in our environment, and inspired to act on behalf of our planet.
Staff
Julie Mack
Executive Director
As ED of Sundance Nature Alliance, Julie is working with landowners, the USFS, the state of Utah and conservation partners to develop programs to protect and restore the biodiversity of our ecosystem, and to inspire residents, and visitors to connect to nature. Julie brings decades of experience in a variety of roles to engage communities and protect and celebrate the environment. Accepting a position as Environmental Director for Sundance in 1987, Julie worked closely with Robert Redford as his environmental issue’s coordinator. In 1998, she established a non-profit land conservation and environmental education organization focused on the ecosystem in North Fork Canyon of the Provo River. In addition to providing environmental education and programming for the Sundance Resort and North Fork community, she worked with Utah Open Lands to place 1,200 acres of land owned by Sundance and the Redford Family into and a conservation easement and placed another 1546 acres into restrictive covenants.
Megan Ah You
Creative Director
Megan Ah You is the Creative Director for Sundance Nature Alliance. Her prior experience includes management of the Sundance Mountain Resort Art Studio as well as the development of local nonprofit art programs. She is an artist with a great love for the outdoors and for the North Fork of the Provo Canyon in particular. Megan's role with SNA as Creative Director relates to overseeing creative development and establishment of the Art in Nature Programs for the enjoyment of visitors and neighbors of the Sundance community.
Board of Directors
Robert Redford
Honorary Chair
Robert Redford is acclaimed as an actor, producer, director, and champion of independent film. He won an Academy Award, a DGA Award, and a Golden Globe Award for his feature directing debut, Ordinary People (1980), and was nominated for an Academy Award for directing Quiz Show (1994). As an actor, he earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance in The Sting (1973). He has starred in dozens of films in a career spanning over 50 years. His latest, The Old Man and the Gun was released in October 2018.
As the founder of Sundance Institute, Redford has nurtured generations of innovative voices in independent culture through the Institute and Film Festival.
A noted environmentalist, Redford has been an advocate for climate change awareness and clean energy for over 40 years. In 2016 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. He has served as a trustee for the Natural Resources Defense Council, and is the co-founder of The Redford Center with his late son James.
Wendy Fisher
Chair
Wendy Fisher, forged her commitment to land conservation in part from the days spent riding her horse through the foothills of the grandeur of Mt Timpanogos. As the Executive Director of Utah Open Lands since 1990 the organization has been at the forefront of community conservation efforts and statewide has protected landscapes that are integral to the preservation of Utah's unique heritage, beauty and recreational opportunity. Wendy has been engaged in preservation efforts in the Northfork Canyon since the mid 1990s. When not saving land, Wendy can be found out riding her horse, hiking, mtn biking or river running with her family.
Douglas Horne
Co-Chair
Douglas R. Horne has over forty years of experience in planning, land conservation and historic preservation, real estate asset management, and development. He founded D. R. Horne & Company in 1982, which gained a national reputation for the firm's extraordinary standards of design, financial performance, client dedication, and its steadfast commitment to sustainability. In 2019, Douglas formed The Working Group (New York, NY) a real estate practice that provides exceptional expertise as design manager, developer, sponsor, and general partner on projects that require specialized attention in execution. He is Managing Director of that firm. Since 2002, he has advised the Redford Family on land use and conservation matters at Sundance.
Douglas is a former Trustee of The Adirondack Conservancy and Land Trust, Demeter Fund, Rosedale Conservancy, and Chairman of Woodstock Resort Corporation. He currently serves as a Trustee of Laurance S. Rockefeller Fund, Jackson Hole Preserve Inc., and Woodstock Foundation.
Jennifer Maritz
Jenny Maritz is originally from Allentown, PA. She attended the University of Virginia and after receiving a BS in Finance, she moved to San Francisco where she worked for many years in banking and real estate finance.
She is married to Flip (Philip) Maritz and they have three children.
Jenny now splits her time between Avon, CO and Carmel, CA.
She has served on the boards of the Walking Mountains Science Center, TNC New York, NYC Audubon, and she currently serves on the board of the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens in Vail, CO, in addition to The Sundance Nature Alliance.
Spending time outdoors in nature has always been Jenny’s passion. She loves to hike and bird watch-weather in the forests of Pennsylvania, Colorado, CA and Utah, the beaches of New Jersey, the Caribbean and California, Central Park in NYC, or anywhere else she travels!
Amy Redford
Amy Redford lives and works as a director and producer in Salt Lake City, Utah. Growing up, Amy split her time between the Wasatch mountains and the streets of New York. Everything she knows that's of any use, she learned in the mountains. Her protective reflex over this canyon, [The Sundance Canyon] extends from fundamental family values of conservation which she hopes to extend to her own children.
Shauna Redford
Shauna Redford has worked for a variety of Sundance entities for over 20 years and is now a full-time painter who lives with her husband in Carmel California. Her time spent in the Wasatch Mountains as a child and over the years with her own family has helped develop her dedication and commitment to conservation.