FUNDIS Team

FUNDIS Staff
Geniva Aguayo-Uribe - CA FUNDIS Fungarium Assistant
Sannah Alimi - CA FUNDIS Fungarium Assistant
Isaiah Bednash - CA FUNDIS Sequencing Validator
Taye Bright - CA FUNDIS Collector
Warren Cardimona - CA FUNDIS Collector and Fungarium Assistant
Thea Chesney - CA FUNDIS Collector
Andrew Claassen - CA FUNDIS Collector
Gabriela D'Elia - FUNDIS Executive Director
Rudy Diaz - CA FUNDIS Collector and Microscopist
Marinna Grijalva - CA FUNDIS Collector
Mandy Hackney - CA FUNDIS Collector
Sadie Hickey - CA FUNDIS Collector
Jaren Hockert - CA FUNDIS Collector
Valerie Warhol - CA FUNDIS Sequence Validator
Fiorella Lema - CA FUNDIS Program Manager
Dean Lyons - CA FUNDIS Collector
Sasha Ospina - FUNDIS Operations Director
Scott Ostuni - CA FUNDIS Sequence Validator
Justin Paulin - CA FUNDIS Sequence Validator
Stu Pickell - CA FUNDIS Collector
Matthew Rozanoff - CA FUNDIS Sequence Validator
Adi Sadeh - CA FUNDIS Collector
Mandie Quark - FUNDIS Communications Lead
Christian Schwarz - CA FUNDIS Collections Lead
Harte Singer - FUNDIS Sequencing Director
Sharon Squazzo - CA FUNDIS Sequence Validator
Michelle Torres-Grant - CA FUNDIS Collector
Aaron Tupac - CA FUNDIS Collector
Bat Vardeh - CA FUNDIS Collector
Nathan Warner - CA FUNDIS Collector
Jessica Williams - CA FUNDIS Sequence Validator
Matthew Williamson - CA FUNDIS Sequencing Technician

Board of Directors

Board Member Bios

Adam DeMartino
President
Co-founder and former Chief Innovations Officer for Smallhold
Brooklyn, NY

Vice President
Vacant

Ken Buegeleisen
Treasurer
Enterprise Resource Planning Consultant
Treasurer Sonoma County Mycological Association
Sebastopol, CA

Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
Secretary
Curator of Mycology at the New York State Museum
International Congress of Armenian Mycologists
Bard Prison Initiative
Albany, NY

Sigrid Jakob
Board Member
President New York Mycological Society
Independent Branding & Strategy Consultant
New York City, NY

Greg Mueller
Board Member
Chief Scientist Chicago Botanic Garden
Chair of Fungus Conservation Committee for International Union for Conservation of Nature
Chicago, IL


Emeritus Board Members

Rob Stevenson 
Bill Sheehan - Co-founder (2018-2022)
Northeast Georgia Funga
Joanne Schwartz (2019-2022)
Macrofungi of the Channel Islands (CA), Macrofungi of Orange County (CA)
Jean Lodge (2019-2021)
University of Georgia (adjunct)
Bitty Roy (2020-2021)
University of Oregon
Barbara Thiers (2019-2020)
New York Botanical Garden (ret.)
Stephen Russell - Co-founder (2018-2019)
Mycoflora of Indiana
Alija Mujic (2018-2019)
California State University-Fresno
Christian Schwarz (2018-2019)
Mushrooms of the Sky Islands (Southwest US)

FUNDIS Volunteers

FunDiS Rare Fungi Challenges
West Coast 
Christin Swearingen - North Alaska Environmental Center
Tiffany Theden - University of California, Santa Cruz
Jack Johnson - Northwest Mushroomers, Evergreen College
Grace Sommers - Minnesota
Mikhael Crystallah-Selk - Sonoma County Mycological Association
Else Vellinga - University of California, Berkeley
Northeast
Liam Nokes - Farlow Herbarium at Harvard
Rick Van de Poll - Northeast Mycological Federation, Ecosystem Management Consultants
Robbie Love - Cercle des mycologues de Montréal and McGill University
Sam Rogers - Foragers Supply, Vermont
Aaron Keaton - Keene State College
Tiffany Theden - Designer

Biodiversity Database
Justin Loucks (Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi at Denver Botanic Gardens)
Mandy Hackney (Humboldt Bay Mycological Society)
Christy Horsley (Oregon Mycological Society, South Sound Mushroom Club)

DNA Sequencing
Harte Singer - Bay Area Applied Mycology (Treasurer), Brian Perry Lab Cal State East Bay
DNA Validators - Jean Lodge, Bitty Roy, Autumn Anglin, Danny Miller, Hayden Tyler Johnson,
Sarah DeLong-Duhon, Porter Reim, Jack Johnson, Sigrid Jakob, Sharon Squazzo,
Robin Rose, Igor Safanov, Dave Wasilewski

Project Registration
Gene Kremer - Paul Bunyan Mushroom Club, MN

Fungaria & Herbaria
Barbara Thiers - New York Botanical Garden (ret.)
Roo Vandergrift - USDA, Miama FL

Website
Andrew MacMillen - Kitsap Peninsula Mycological Society
Ken Buegeleisen - Sonoma County Mycological Association
Trey Richards - fundis.org creator

Academics

Cathie Aime, Purdue University

Danny Haelewaters, Ghent University, Belgium

Greg Mueller, Chicago Botanic Garden; Global Fungal Red List; FunDiS BOD

Bitty Roy, University of Oregon

Rob Stevenson, Univ. Massachusetts Boston & FunDiS BOD

Rick Van de Poll, Ecosystem Management Consultants

Roo Vandegrift, USDA, Miami

Else Vellinga, University of California, Berkeley

Community Scientists & Parataxonomists

Gabriela D'Elia, FunDiS Director

Ken Buegeleisen, FunDiS President & Treasurer, SOMA

Sigrid Jakob, FunDiS BOD

Liam Nokes, Dartmouth College

Lauren Ré, Evergreen College

Joanne Schwartz, FunDiS BOD

Bill Sheehan, FunDiS BOD

Christin Swearingen, Alaska