ELCR Staff Members
To contact ELCR or a staff member please contact the national office at (859) 455-8383, Info@ELCR.org or click on staff member name, to utilize individual email accounts.
Deb Balliet
Chief Executive Officer
Leading ELCR brings together two of Deb's passions; horses and open space. Her love of the land was hereditary, and nurtured by her father. The love of horses started early, but regular riding and horse ownership did not start until the late 1990's. A recreational rider, Deb is a member of the Fort Harrod Back Country Horsemen and the Eastern Mountain Ranch Horse Association. Deb's horse, registered as GMG Devilmademedoit and affectionately known as "Taz," is an appendix registered quarter horse.
Professionally, Deb has 23 years of experience in not-for-profit management, consulting and fund-raising with organizations such as The University of Vermont, Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, Open Space Preservation Trust, and National Audubon Society. Deb holds a M.Ed. from the University of Vermont and a B.A. from the State University of New York.
Rounding out the Balliet household is Henry, the lop-eared rabbit and Emmie, the yellow cat that just moved in.
Photo courtesy of Performance Horse Magazine. Taken by Jennifer Munson Photography at Plainfield Farm, Lexington KY.
Staff Members
Jessi Jump
Administrative Coordinator
Jessi brings seven years of nonprofit fundraising and operations experience to ELCR. Her experience with LexArts, the united arts fund for central Kentucky, and Girl Scouts-Wilderness Road Council have provided her with multiple opportunities in fundraising, communications, administration and nonprofit operations. Jessi has a B.A. from Georgetown College in English Literature.
Jessi's passion at ELCR is providing resources and education for horsepeople and landowners. Land conservation is essential to maintaining the culture and beauty of our world. Land loss is not only a huge threat to our horses and our equestrian endeavors, but to us as well.
Jessi lives in Sadieville with her husband, Bob, daughter, Brynna and dog, Marley-Bones.
Carol Hienzsch
Conservation Partner Coordinator
Carol is a lifelong horse enthusiast. She spent her summers in Colorado and Wyoming riding any horse that was offered to her, usually bareback and never in an arena. After purchasing her first horse she began taking lessons and started showing first in the eventing world then on to hunter/jumpers. One horse quickly became two; two became three, and so on and so on!
Having lived both in the mountains and along the Front Range in Colorado, Carol has witnessed first hand the loss of open space and farmland on a large scale. Being a farm and horse owner this loss was felt personally in the closing of land to horseback riding, loss of horse show venues, and in the increased price of hay.
The position of Conservation Partners Coordinator at ELCR provides Carol with the chance to bring her education, affinity for the equestrian lifestyle, past work experience along with her passion for environment together in what is a very unique opportunity to serve other like minded individuals.
She and her husband, Stephan, relocated to Lexington from Colorado trading in the Rocky Mountains and ski slopes for bluegrass and horse farms. They live on their farm in Georgetown, Kentucky along with (at last count) four horses, two goats, three dogs and three cats.
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