FIRST WILDERNESS TEAM
Students from Skidmore College, SUNY Plattsburgh, and SUNY Adirondack are driving our storytelling collaborations.
Our Editorial Board oversees our collaborations. Our Production Team is led by three Editorial Board members: Warren County GIS Administrator Sara Frankenfeld and Cliff & Redfield Interactive's Dan Forbush and Bill Walker. Our grant from the Warren County Department of Planning and Community Development enables us to pay stipends to interns who are learning and applying spatial and collaborative tools in preparing for careers in journalism, public relations, education, planning, and digital media.
Our team is responsible for producing Trip Reports, Features, A Collaborative History, and Living with Wilderness. We soon will launch Explore Warren County, a mobile app that delivers GPS-triggered audio narratives to visitors’ phones.
Warren County GIS Administrator Sara Frankenfeld has been making GIS-enabled maps for 25 years. A San Francisco Bay Area native, she spent the summers of her childhood at her family's camp near Lake George.
Cliff & Redfield Interactive Managing Director Bill Walker and Founder and Editor Dan Forbush have been friends and professional colleagues for more than 40 years. Beginning their work with Warren County in 2021, they coordinate storytelling collaborations in CRI’s content engine.
Allison Comstock
A senior at SUNY Plattsburgh, Allison is developing Warren County's Underground Railroad as a StoryMap in ArcGIS while also producing pieces on the same subject for Stories from Open Space. Also interning at the North Star Underground Museum in Ausable Chasm, she brings a base of knowledge to the project.
Annie Kiernan
A junior at Skidmore College, Annie joined three other Skidmore students last spring in producing this build-out analysis in ArcGIS StoryMaps for the Town of Warrensburg. Now pursuing a career in GIS, she'll help us produce StoryMaps focused on How Skiing Came to North Creek and Warren County's First People.
Stephen Dixon Jr.
A SUNY Plattsburgh senior history major, is keenly interested in spatial storytelling with aspirations to put the technology to use in journalism, broadcasting, or museums. His first assignment is to develop an audio tour in STQRY that supports the Warren County Historians' Challenge.
Catherine Ficke
A SUNY Plattsburgh senior education major, Catherine spends her summers as a whitewater rafting guide on the Hudson River, having made more than 60 runs. She's writing for several of our collaborations, including How Skiing Came to North Creek and our Gore Region StoryCloud.
Dominic Giordano
A Skidmore College sophomore majoring in political science, Dominic is driving Warren County's First People, an ArcGIS Story Map. In a prior internship with the Warren County Historical Society, he developed a popular exhibit, Historic Maps of Warren County. For us, he'll research explore archaeological surveys of 200 Warren County sites.
Carmelina Albanese
A Skidmore College senior majoring in English and minoring in Environmental Studies and Science, Carmelina has solid internship experience with two web publications. For Smartacus, she'll serve in the role of production manager, publishing our content to platforms in Squarespace, ArcGIS Story Maps, and STQRY.
Mackenzie Lawler
A senior history major at SUNY Plattsburgh, has a special interest in environmental conservation and social justice. She's writing for several of our collaborations, including our First Wilderness Film Series, How Skiing Came to North Creek, and our Gore Region Story Cloud.
May Braaten
A junior English major at Skidmore, May drove five of the articles we posted to A Collaborative History last spring in a 45-hour credit-bearing experience. She’s heading to France this spring for a term abroad. We hope she can rejoin us when she returns.