Support Office

Rachel Folk Team Director

Rachel began as the Program Director for the Western Hardrock Watershed Team in October 2011.  Prior to that, she was coordinating the OSM/AmeriCorps Trainees in a pilot program to give college graduates the opportunity to train with OSM employees. Hailing from Charleston, SC, where she earned her B.A. in Communication from the College of Charleston, Rachel moved west in 2009 for a year of OSM/VISTA service to build capacity for the Upper Pecos Watershed Association in Pecos, New Mexico.

Phone: 970.403.0140
Email: teamdirector [at] hardrockteam.org

Cora McCold Program Administrative Assistant

Cora McCold has been coordinating the WHWT OSM/VISTA program since spring 2010. Before joining the WHWT staff, she joined the Team in the fall of 2008, serving as an OSM/VISTA member with the Blue River Watershed Group in Summit County, Colorado.  Cora holds a Bachelor’s of Political Science from Appalachian State University.  In 2008, Cora was one of six recent graduates selected to participate in the Student Conservation Association’s National Park Congressional Internship program.  During this internship she worked for a Member of Congress in Washington, D.C. and assisted the Chief of Planning and Resource Management in Valley Forge National Historical Park, PA.  Cora’s professional experience also includes working as a researcher, teaching assistant, and tutor in universities.

Phone: 970.403.0137
Email: info [at] hardrockteam.org

Adrian Uzunian  OSM/VISTA Leader (based in Albuquerque, New Mexico)

Adrian joined the Western Hardrock Watershed Team in August of 2010 as an OSM/VISTA Leader. Prior to his current position he served as an OSM/VISTA with the Appalachian Coal Country Team in Western Maryland with the George’s Creek Watershed Association. Before starting his two year exploration into the world of mining in the East and West, Adrian briefly did canvassing work with Citizen’s Campaign for the Environment in New York and volunteered with the Cloudbridge Nature Preserve in Costa Rica tracking spider monkeys. Adrian received his bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology with a minor in Environmental Policy from Fordham University in New York City. He has been planning his move from the Northeast to the West since he can remember and is content in his new home. In his free time he enjoys all of the mountains, parks and sun the Southwest has to offer, often hopping in his car on a whim and driving to the first place that sounds appealing.

Phone: 505.761.8746
Email: osmvistaleader1 [at] hardrockteam.org

Alex Brooks - OSM/VISTA Leader (based in Durango, Colorado)

Alex joined the WHWT support office in May 2011 and started in July 2011 as the Colorado-based OSM/VISTA Leader. Prior to his current position, he served for year with the Western Hardrock Watershed Team as an OSM/VISTA volunteer at the Grand County Water Information Network in Grand Lake, CO. There he worked on developing education, volunteer monitoring & watershed planning programs. Alex grew up in and around Boston and graduated in 2008 from Grinnell College (in Iowa) with a degree in Political Science and a concentration in Global Development Studies. Upon graduation, he was awarded a year-long fellowship to work as an intern coordinator & research assistant at the Gobabeb Research & Training Centre — an environmental center in the Namib-Naukluft National Park in Namibia. It was there, living among the sand dunes, scorpions, and sun that he worked on an ephemeral river hydrology project and developed his passion for water sciences and conservation.

Phone: 970.403.0136
Email: osmvistaleader2 [at] hardrockteam.org