Silver SPRUCE Academy Executive Board
The Executive Board Members are responsible for implementing the organization's misson, making strategic decisions for the non-profit, and governing the organization.
Board Chair
Jonathan Drake
Jonathan was raised in Oberlin Ohio and currently lives in Grand Junction Colorado with his wife and four children. Jonathan is a business owner and works as an online consultant. He has been our Board Chair since Aug. 2021 and jokingly likes to be called
"El Presidente."
Board Treasurer
Rylee Meshew
Secretary
Kristin Gerela
Kristin has called Colorado her home for the past 25 years. She was a neonatal nurse practitioner before deciding to stay home with her two daughters, one of whom attends Silver Spruce. She is now a full time, stay at home, homeschooling mom. In her free time, she enjoys reading, helping others in their pursuit of health and wellness, and being a taxi driver for her girls and their activities.
Member At-Large
Open Position
Rylee was born and raised in the Bayfield Colorado area and has loved every second of it. She still happily lives in Bayfield and has no plans of leaving anytime soon! She is a former student of Silver SPRUCE Academy and is excited to still be a part of such an amazing school! Rylee works with her mom bookkeeping while also doing freelance art and website designing.
Member At-Large
Open Position
Advisor
Luri Owen
Luri Owen is the Learning Center Coordinator at Southwest Colorado Community College (PCC) in Durango, CO, and a Library Assistant at Ignacio Community Library in Ignacio, CO. She previously taught at the Pine River Community Learning Center in Ignacio and Bayfield, and she has also taught for schools in Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas. She is a firm advocate for lifelong learning. She has served on several non-profit boards and was a founding partner for a non-profit language school in Montgomery, Alabama. She lives in Bayfield, CO.
Advisor
Susan Visser
Susan has 30 years of business management experience, 10 of those in non-profits. She and her family resided in Colorado while her daughter was young, but have moved to Idaho where her daughter graduated from Boise State University. Following her father’s example, Susan believes that learning should never stop; serving on the Silver SPRUCE Academy Board of Directors gives her the opportunity to provide continuing contributions to the field of education.
