Caitlin Horigan, President
Caitlin Horigan has been advising small businesses and non-profit organizations in marketing and fundraising for more than two decades. Although she is no longer consulting as her primary work, she has enjoyed offering these skills as a board member of Thistle and Commonterra Land Trust. Caitlin has appreciated the opportunity to collaborate with local community members and organizations to support initiatives bringing regenerative change.
Moriah Helms, Treasurer
Moriah Helms has been participating in raising and redistributing funds for for social and environmental causes for over two decades. Her beginnings were in fundraising for environmental groups lobbying for legislation to address climate change in the mid 2000s. After learning more about mutual aid and the history of horizontal organizing, she then began to focus on direct giving by organizing community fundraisers to support food security, housing and medical care for marginalized individuals and families. Moriah also has four years of experience in participatory grant making, with a focus on land and food sovereignty projects led by Black and Indigenous people. Moriah is delighted to help direct funds towards projects supporting environmental education and reciprocal care for the natural world through her role on Thistle’s board.
Kyla Windbloom, Secretary
Kyla brings decades of experience in facilitating small groups and structuring new organizations to her work strengthening Thistle’s board, guiding processes, structures, policies, and facilitating internal communication. She also brings this experience to facilitating group decision-making and workshops on a variety of topics in the midcoast area and beyond. Though she is happiest with a cat on her lap while surrounded by family, Kyla is also passionate about exploring the ecosystems that include her home. On any given day you may find her examining lichen on a little-used trail, processing nettle fibers, or making lotion bars scented with weeds that grew near her house.
Meg Gilmartin, Board Member
Meg is a clinical therapist with training in Somatic Experiencing and has been teaching tracking, birding and developing naturalist skills for the past fifteen years. She is deeply committed to youth autonomy and has supported the organizing of many youth-led efforts. Her approach is based in biocentrism, ecology, self-determination, and moving towards a decolonial way of life. When she is not volunteering her time or working, she enjoys foraging for wild foods, especially seaweed, making plant medicine and studying mammals and birds.