IATC Welcomes Three New Board Members

The Issaquah Alps Trails Club is excited to welcome three new members to its board this March, Kelly Jiang, Mark Griffith, and Gaurav Sharma.

A native Washingtonian, Kelly now lives in Issaquah and loves being able to hike and run the network of trails in the Alps from her front door. By day, she works in the clean energy field, researching and conducting pilots for technologies to reduce the carbon footprint of the electricity system. After hours, she can be found running in the Issaquah Alps, backcountry skiing, or climbing all over Washington. She believes firmly in the value of wilderness accessibility for all, and is excited to work with IATC to preserve these wild spaces for future generations and ensure equitable access to these trails in our backyard.

Mark graduated in history and ended up helping build an e-commerce website in 1996, and joined a startup in San Francisco in 1999. In 2004 he and his family moved to Seattle where he subsequently joined Amazon in 2005 where he has worked for the last16 years managing software teams for various business divisions. Mark and his family first settled in Talus on Cougar Mountain because of the access to the local trails. They now live on Squak mountain. Mark is an avid hiker, trail runner and mountaineer. He has run a 100 miler in the Issaquah Alps and is looking forward to another great spring in the local mountains the greater Cascades.

Gaurav is an IT consultant by profession with 16 years of Industry experience, working on Retail business transformations. He is passionate about photography, hiking, sports, trail running, bird watching and wildlife conservation. He is also an avid user of trails and after living in some very densely populated cities he’s become a believer in “Public lands for Everyone, Everyone for Public lands.” He has volunteered with the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival in 2017 and with both Evergreen & WTA at trail maintenance work parties. He also enjoys bird watching and wildlife tracking (Favorite Birds – Hummingbirds and Birds of Prey).

To see all of our current board members please visit: https://www.issaquahalps.org/our-board