NNFP Team

Colin Donohue, Executive Director

Colin Donohue serves the National Network of Forest Practitioners as the Executive Director, helping NNFP to nurture sustainable relationships between people and forests by supporting organizations and individuals that help create sustainable forest-related income and livelihoods.

Colin has been involved with a wide variety of forest-related organizations, activities, and issues for over 17 years, most notably, he developed the Sustainable Forest Economies program at Rural Action, bringing it to national prominence in his 9 years there. Rural Action worked with private landowners on a variety of projects from cultivation and sustainable use of Non-Timber Forest Products to innovative projects (Call Before You Cut and New Landowner Welcome Wagon), and development of forest landowner cooperatives to sustainably manage land and market their wood.

He lives in Athens County Ohio in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains with his Fiancee, Ana and his cat Kisa. He enjoys playing bluegrass music and hiking.

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Scott Bagley, Program Director

Scott serves as NNFP's Program Director.

He has had a variety of work experiences that have led him to his work with NNFP, from fieldwork to writing to business planning, and many things in between. He first encountered NNFP while coordinating the Sustainable Forestry Program at Rural Action in southeastern Ohio, and is excited to reconnect with NNFP's members and partners.

He grew up in northeastern Wyoming, finished high school in eastern Kentucky, then earned degrees from Miami University (Ohio) and the University of Montana. He lives in southeastern Ohio with his wife, Rachel.

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Debra McBride, Operations Director

Debra McBride serves as NNFP’s Operations Director and is responsible for ensuring the effectiveness of the organization's internal operational functions. A longtime supporter of small business, Debra also provides business technical assistance to NNFP members.

Debra has over 20 years of experience in small business development, organization development and training. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer helping women in Togo, West Africa develop income producing opportunities and was Director of the Ohio Small Business Development Center at Ohio University where she advised businesses on a variety of management topics. Prior to joining NNFP, she worked as an independent consultant helping organizations grow through strategic and operational planning, assessment of operations, and development of internal teams and people. Debra is passionate about continuous improvement and has served as a 2009 and 2010 Examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

Bryce Oates, Enterprise Development Specialist

Nora McDougall-Collins, Director of Web Development and Marketing

Starting in Jan. 2009, Nora works with NNFP from Missoula, Montana, where she also teaches a popular series of Web Development courses at Dickinson Lifelong Learning Center. She previously worked for TimberBuySell.com on web development, marketing and sales. During her two years at TBS, the site went from a business plan to a site that received 220,000 visits in its second year.

Nora has been in the web industry since 1997, when she worked for International Newspaper Network. While working at INN, she completed an International Business degree, and while working for TBS, she completed a masters in Computer Science. Her goal is to help small businesses and organizations develop a vibrant web presence.

When not at her computer or teaching, Nora is probably driving her three step-sons to sports practice, working as a writing coach at one of the Missoula High Schools or walking the new lab puppy with her husband, Conrad. Everyone in the family plays acoustic guitar, except Nora and the dog.

Leslie Horner, Landowner Outreach Specialist

Barbara Wyckoff, Leadership and Organizational Development Specialist

Barbara is a certified professional co-active coach (CPCC) by Coaches Training Institute (CTI). She has worked both in the United States and internationally on environmental, community and economic development issues, with collaborations from community groups to international organizations, and from scientists to indigenous peoples.

Bringing experience and solutions from her work with over 40 organizations (including World Wildlife Fund, the Ford Foundation, Rural Action and Appalachia Sustainable Development), Barbara is heading up NNFP's leadership program. Leadership for the Long Haul kicked off a 6 month intensive program to develop the leaders of tomorrow.

Chris Demel, Financial Manager

Pradeep Edussuriya, Media Specialist

Pradeep was born in Sri Lanka and has been residing in the United States since 2000. He received is Bachelor of Arts Degree in Film from Northern Michigan University and MFA in Film at Ohio University's School of Film. Pradeep is an avid versatile filmmaker, experienced in narrative, documentary, experimental, animation and musical modes. He is familiar with various formats of filmmaking including super 8, 16mm, DV and HD.

Apart from directing his own films, he have also served as a director of photography for various narrative film, documentary and commercial productions. He photographed portions of African American Presence In The Ohio River Valley, a feature length documentary produced by Ohio University's Department of African American Studies. Dating to the time of slavery, the film consists of the preserved narrations of African American oral history in the region. He also photographed sections of Amino Kano: Once Upon Nigeria, a feature length documentary that tells the story of one of Nigeria's greatest political and humanitarian icons. He have also served as an instructor of film and photography for undergraduate, high school, and middle school students.You can view short samples of pradeep's film and photography work at his website http://pradeepedussuriya.com.