Andrea Shipley
Executive Director
Andrea was born and raised in Wyoming. She is one of Idaho Business Review's Accomplished Under 40, a graduate of the Western State Center's Western Institute for Organizing and Leadership Development, awarded as a Woman Making Herstory by Boise State University, awarded as grassroots leader of the year in 2009 by United Vision for Idaho and holds a BA in English from the University of Montana. Andrea has a sharp political analysis and expertise in advocacy models that cross constituencies and issues. She has served in a variety of roles in non-profits and government throughout the Northwest for more than a decade including: community organizer, educator, advocate, development director and board member. By leading the Alliance with a commitment to environmental responsibility and social justice, she believes we can achieve what others are calling "the impossible."
Contact Info: (208) 344-9161 or ashipley@snakeriveralliance.org
Beatrice Brailsford
Program Director
Beatrice was born and raised in Buhl, Idaho. She graduated from Cornell and was editor of all publications at The Brooklyn Museum, where she also helped unionize the museum's professional, administrative, and technical employees. Beatrice taught at the University of Idaho and joined the Alliance staff in 1989. She has served on state and federal environmental advisory committees, speaks to and writes for a wide range of audiences, has served as a peer reviewer for a number of publications on nuclear issues, and represents the Alliance in the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability.
Contact info: (208) 233-7212 or bbrailsford@snakeriveralliance.org
Jill Krenecki
Office Administrator
Jill was born and raised in California and move to Boise to attend Boise State University in 2005. She received her Bachelors of Business Administration in December 2008 and joined the Snake River Alliance shortly there after. While at Boise State Jill was very involved in programming and volunteering. She was the Director of the Student Programs Board and worked as an Assistant Event Coordinator for the Student Union. Jill is dedicated to giving back to her community, and is grateful for the opportunity to work with the Alliance to assist in stopping nuclear developments in the state of Idaho.
Contact info: (208) 344-9161 or jkrenecki@snakeriveralliance.org
Ken Miller
Clean Energy Program Director
Ken joined the Alliance in May 2007 to fill the newly created clean energy position. Prior to joining the Alliance, Ken represented the Seattle-based NW Energy Coalition as its Idaho energy advocate, working on sustainable energy policies and coordinating clean-energy advocacy in Idaho. Ken was a participated in the Idaho Energy Plan process, as well as on campaigns in 2005-2007 to combat the construction of fossil fuel power plants in Idaho and also the purchase by Idaho utilities of out-of-state fossil fuel energy. Ken has also worked with Idaho’s regulated utilities, participating in regulatory procedures before the Idaho Public Utilities Commission as well as through utility advisory groups on energy efficiency and energy resource planning processes. Prior to joining NW Energy Coalition, Ken worked as education and outreach coordinator and then as policy coordinator for Winter Wildlands Alliance, a national nonprofit based in Boise. During that time, he was involved in local resource protection issues, such as asserting the rights of non-motorized winter recreationists on public lands, as well as national issues such as the Yellowstone National Park winter-use planning and litigation process and the U.S. Forest Service’s ongoing OHV management process. Before joining Winter Wildlands, Ken had extensive experience as an environmental writer, covering a variety of significant issues and working with myriad national and local conservation organizations. His reporting portfolio includes such diverse issues as the introduction of gray wolves into the Northern Rockies; Florida Everglades restoration efforts; habitat issues in the Texas Hill Country (golden-cheeked warbler) and the Coastal California Sage Scrub region (California gnatcatcher and companion species); marine and related fisheries issues in the Atlantic; Hawaii’s tropical forest protection; and human-caused chemical environmental issues such as toxics in “Cancer Alley” along the Lower Mississippi River and Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene Basin.
Contact info: (208) 344-9161 or kmiller@snakeriveralliance.org
Liz Woodruff
Energy Policy Analyst
Liz received a BA in Global Development Studies from Whitman College and an MA in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University. She has used her inter-disciplinary training to promote social justice, peace, and environmental ethics as a student activist, college instructor, environmental educator and community volunteer. Her commitment to these areas was propagated through an internship with Amnesty International, extensive training in curriculum development around liberation pedagogy at Rutgers, and by volunteering extensively in Idaho’s environmental community. After spending a session as an assistant to minority leadership in the Idaho Senate she became acutely aware of the need for a broad-based people’s movement for sensible energy solutions to our current environmental crisis. Using tried and true approaches to community organizing, while developing new and innovative ways of collaborating—all with the intention of facilitating strategic action to safe-guard Idaho’s environment and promote renewable energy—is Liz’s passion and her mission at the Alliance. Liz is also the mother of two beautiful boys, River and Canyon.
Contact: (208)344-9161 or lwoodruff@snakeriveralliance.org