Director
EMAIL: alaffely05@alumni.unity.edu
Audrey’s love of the Appalachian Trail started as a child hiking Katahdin with her family. It continued into college, with her love of the outdoors influencing her undergraduate degrees in Maine at Unity College in Parks, Recreation, and Ecotourism and Landscape Horticulture. After completing a thru-hike of the AT, she served as the Gulf Hagas Ridge Runner for a season. Since then, she has been active in the MATC serving as an Executive Committee member, site supervisor for the Horn’s Pond Caretaker, maintainer of a section around White Cap, and has served on the CARE, Finance, and Nominating Committees as well as doing member mailings. She has also earned a graduate certificate in Geographic Information Systems, completing a project on AT view-sheds, and a Master of Science in Plant Soil and Environmental Science focusing on Carbon release of rewetted soils, both at the University of Maine. She currently works as a Research Scientist at the University of Maine.
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Mike Stillman
Director
Farmington and Hamdpen, ME
EMAIL: poepaddy@hotmail.com
Mike has a long history in conservation and trails: he served on the National Park Service Historic Landscape Preservation Team from 1990-1992; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Wetland Restoration Service, 1990-1992; as a crew leader for Baxter State Park, 1988-1990; a crew leader for the Maine Conservation Corps, 1993-1994, and a crew leader for the MATC’s Maine Trail Crew, 1995-1996; he has also served as a board member for the Friends of Baxter State Park, 2012-2015. Mike is a fly fishing guide and maker of bamboo fly rods.
Tony Barrett
Director
Harpswell, ME
EMAIL: barretttony@mac.com
In 1998, Tony left the corporate world and moved to Maine taking on various part-time occupations – most recently in Maine’s seafood economy. With more flexible hours, he has pursued his life-long interest in trails and long-distance, non-motorized travel. He has bicycled through Europe, in the Middle East and across the United States. Tony has also thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail and currently maintains a section of trail in Maine. He is a life member of MATC, AMC, ATC, Adventure Cycling and the League of American Cyclists. He serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Maine Appalachian Trail Club. He also serves on the Board of the Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust. Tony earned a BA in 1975 and a MBA in 1977 from the University of Chicago.
Lester Kenway
President
Trail Champions Committee Chair
Bangor, ME
EMAIL: president@matc.org
Lester worked as the Trails Supervisor at Baxter State Park for 22 years, spent two years with Maine’s Land Use Regulation Commission, and served as the Field Team Program Coordinator for the Maine Conservation Corps until his State retirement. He owns a trail tool business, Trail Services, which provides equipment, support, and advice to trail organizations throughout the United States. He has volunteered with the Maine Appalachian Trail Club throughout his career, serving as its President for the last 10 years. Besides working on trails, Lester has enjoyed hiking and mountaineering throughout North America and in several other parts of the world. A resident of Bangor, Lester earned a degree in chemistry from Bates College in 1975 but prefers to think he majored in Outing Club.
Holly Sheehan
Club Coordinator
Portland, ME
EMAIL: coordinator@matc.org
Holly has worked as the Club Coordinator for the Maine Appalachian Trail Club since 2004. She works with MATC’s Board of Directors, volunteers, organizational partners, seasonal staff and other stakeholders in helping the organization meet its mission to maintain, manage & protect 267-miles of the Appalachian Trail.
Portland, ME
EMAIL: coordinator@matc.org
Holly has worked as the Club Coordinator for the Maine Appalachian Trail Club since 2004. She works with MATC’s Board of Directors, volunteers, organizational partners, seasonal staff and other stakeholders in helping the organization meet its mission to maintain, manage & protect 267-miles of the Appalachian Trail.
Holly co-founded and co-managed environmentally themed camps for children ages 4-13 at both Turkey Hill Farm, in Cape Elizabeth, and Wolfe’s Neck Farm, in Freeport. Activities centered on agriculture, wildlife, pond and forest ecology. Prior to this Holly taught life science at Portland’s King Middle School.
Holly holds a M.S. in Environmental Studies from Antioch New England, in Keene, NH.
She and her husband Steve Niles, three sons and two dogs enjoy time spent outdoors including maintaining the A.T. from Safford Notch campsite to the summit of Little Bigelow Mountain.