Board of Directors

Barcy Fox has been a long-time member, supporter and volunteer at the famed Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis before moving to Santa Fe in 2010.  She has dedicated many years to working with arts and cultural organizations. In addition to working with a variety of non-profits, Barcy has had a robust career in management consulting, marketing/communications and training with Maritz Inc., Arthur D. Little Management Consulting and Russell Reynolds Associates. Her work in the not-for-profit world includes stints with the Saint Louis Symphony, St. Louis Art Museum, Maryville University and Saint Louis University. Board memberships include Mayor’s Commission on the Arts and Humanities (St. Louis), First Street Forum Gallery, grass/roots women’s’ spirituality center, Brainbank, Inc, Tangerine Wellness and other community organizations. She is a lifelong gardener and says she is particularly excited to be in at the start of building the Museum Hill garden to complete the environments offered by the Santa Fe Botanical Garden. As a member of the SFBG Board, she is on the Governance Committee and Master Planning Committee.

Kevin Flores has been involved with SFBG for almost 10-years. He is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Anderson School of Management at the University of New Mexico. Originally from Southern California, he moved to New Mexico in 2003 and settled in Santa Fe in 2011. Kevin has spent the past 20-years in the relationship building business in one form or another.  He has experience with multi-national companies, small businesses and non-profit organizations in a variety of roles including Accounting and Finance, Strategic Planning, Sales and Marketing, Research and Development and Business Management. When Kevin is not helping clients, he spends as much time as he can outdoors. He enjoys hiking with his family and dogs, mountain biking, road cycling, snowboarding and skiing.

Amy McCombs’ lifelong love of New Mexico, its land, its people and its culture began at the age of 5 with a family visit. It culminated in 2017 when she became a New Mexico resident and steward of an historic John Gaw Meem home tied to Santa Fe’s rich history. McCombs spent her career in journalism, holding president/CEO positions at the Chronicle Publishing Company in San Francisco and the Broadcast Division of the Washington Post Company and as an entrepreneur focusing on digital media and emerging technologies. An advocate for the importance of journalism to democratic societies, she is Professor Emeritus at the Missouri School of Journalism after holding the Lee Hills Chair in Free-Press Studies and a position at the Truman School of Public Affairs. She is the recipient of many prestigious media, business, and community awards but among the recognitions that are the most meaningful for her is a National Park Service iconic hat. The award recognized her service to the Bay Area’s Golden Gate National Recreation Area as a board member of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy its partner organization and for her commitment to the education of future stewards of Mother Earth as board member and then Interim President of the Presidio Graduate School (San Francisco). Heralded as a pioneer, Presidio was recognized by Fast Company as one of the top five green MBA Programs in the country. She has served on corporate boards and is actively involved in national nonprofits. These include the National Advisory Board of the Commonwealth Club of California, the nation’s oldest and largest public affairs forum, and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Board. She is a graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Senior Executive Program and Harvard Business School National Association of Broadcasters General Management Program. She holds a Master of Arts and Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Missouri. She also attended Pennsylvania State University.

Liz Marie Crews retired to Santa Fe in 1994 after a technology centered career in Silicon Valley, CA. During her time in Santa Fe she has been on the Board of Santa Fe Cares, Advisory Trustee for the Museum of New Mexico Foundation for 17 years, an active member of United Church of Santa Fe, and PEO. She is a Passionate Advocate for the Arts and Land Sustainability and enjoys fabric arts and watercolor painting.

At Xerox Electro-Optical Division she led a software group building explorative publishing systems for “National Geographic” magazine, Ginn & Company and University Microfilm.

As Xerox Corporate Font Center Manager she negotiated contract for Mergenthaler Lintotype to produce 10 typeface families for the first high performance laser printer; as well as, license for typeface design from Charactêres SA in Switzerland. She supported standardization of character set to include publishing characters and developed relationship with type foundries, typographers, and type designers.
In 1983 she joined Adobe System where she negotiated font licensing agreements with Linotype, Monotype and ITC, and defined the first set of typefaces included in the Apple LaserWriter printer. As Director of Marketing Communications at Adobe she built a graphic design group that produced all marketing communication materials, developed their public relations and advertising programs and served as corporate spokesperson at industry conferences and trade shows.

After Adobe, she helped found (EFI) Electronics for Imaging and its color marketing communication. In 2017, she was acknowledged as a “Pioneer in Desktop Publishing” by the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

John Duncan first came to Santa Fe in 1973 and from 1974 through the early 1980s came every year to Ghost Ranch while falling in love with Santa Fe and northern New Mexico. In 1979 he helped his parents, Jim and Colleen Duncan, find a townhouse in Santa Fe. They ultimately retired, becoming deeply involved with the Museum of New Mexico Foundation (MNMF), the Santa Fe Community Foundation and SAR. John has visited Santa Fe every year since 1973, encouraging his 6 siblings also to do so. Jim Duncan, Jr., moved here, was very active in the MNMF and was made one of only seven Honorary Trustees after he left Santa Fe for health reasons.

John and Anita Sarafa were married in Loretto Chapel in 2005, and in 2010 bought Jim’s house in Casas de San Juan. John has split his time since 2019 between Santa Fe and Chicago, and they plan to retire here full-time. As members and supporters of the Garden since shortly after its inception, they will tell you proudly of using the Garden’s own plant guide here to create four gardens focused on pollinating plants and their pollinators (bees, moths, butterflies and hummingbirds).

John graduated from Yale College and The University of Chicago Law School. He headed for many years the banking and finance practice at the international law firm Jones Day and subsequently at Kozusko Harris Duncan, where he continues to represent family offices and single- and multi-family private trust companies in pursuing their highest calling as trustees–building strong families by developing strong and caring beneficiaries. John also wrote trust and trust company laws adopted by states throughout the U.S.

John’s other charitable activities include Trustee of MNMF (Chair of the Legacy Society; member of the Finance and Executive Committees), Director of the nation-wide, environmentally-focused Sand County Foundation (Chair of the Risk Management Committee) and a Garden Heritage Society Ambassador of the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Carmen Gonzales has spent more that 40 years as an educator at every level. She began teaching in the elementary school system (including in Hawaii and Honduras), developed and taught specialized education programs for gifted and talented students, skills development for teachers, and blind adult education. She received her doctorate in curriculum and instruction from the University of New Mexico. She was on the faculty at New Mexico State and became a Vice President and Dean at the College for Extended Learning, Office of Distance Education and Weekend College. She later served as Vice President for Student Success at Santa Fe Community College, as well as President of the Santa Fe Community College Foundation. She is currently a member of the Santa Fe School Board and on the board of the McCarthey-Dressman Education Foundation, a grant-making foundation whose purpose is to enhance innovations in education. Carmen has also served on the Higher Learning Commission and as a volunteer advisor on education to Mayor Webber and a board member of Kitchen Angels.

Larry Good is a retired architect and planner who built a large, award-winning practice (GFF) in Dallas over 38 years. He chaired numerous boards in Dallas dealing with matters of urban design, city planning and quality of life. Larry has received three lifetime achievement awards for his depth of community service and contributions to his industry and Downtown Dallas revitalization. Barbara and Larry designed and built a new home on Museum Hill in Santa Fe in 2007, and now spend half their time in their adopted city. In addition to his interest in SFBG, he currently chairs the El Zaguan Master Plan Committee for Historic Santa Fe Foundation. The Goods are part of the investor team which purchased the historic La Fonda in 2014. Larry is a collector of rare books, Navajo textiles, Pueblo pottery and art by northern New Mexico artists. Barbara has the gift of hospitality and is the accomplished gardener. He and Barbara are avid hikers.

Scott McIntyre grew up in Orange County, CA, when there were actually oranges there. He attended Stanford University, majoring in Communications, before heading east to begin a career in financial services in Boston. He returned to the Los Angeles area in 1989, where he managed the Communications department at American Funds; he then moved to the Sacramento area in 2004 to join Washington Mutual, just in time to witness the mortgage meltdown up close. In 2008, when Washington Mutual sold his division to Principal Financial, Scott joined Planned Solutions, a small financial planning firm in Folsom, CA, where he continues to work. In 2016, he and his family moved to Santa Fe full-time and are loving it.

Francis J (Frank) Renz has spent over 45 years mostly in Higher Education, specifically community colleges. He worked in increasingly responsible positions in community colleges in Texas and mainly New Mexico serving as counselor/instructor to dean and then at the state level as founding Executive Director of the NM Assn of Community Colleges for 15 years, managing a Board of Community College CEOs and advancing funding and legislative initiatives on their behalf (retiring from the state in 2006). Renz was then recruited to become a student success Leadership Coach for national initiatives, Achieving the Dream for another 13 years and Caring Campus for additional 2 years. Renz earned his PhD in Educational Administration at UT Austin, a Master’s in Psychology from Villanova University and a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Saint Joseph’s College.

On a personal level, Renz was born and raised in Philadelphia of German immigrants. He served in the Army and is a Vietnam Era Veteran. Renz became a certified ski instructor and taught skiing at various resorts part-time. He has been with his husband, Randy going on 43 years, and was among the first couples to be married when the state approved same sex marriage on August 23, 2013. Renz also enjoys hiking with his dog and with retirement, is now enjoying other avocational interests such as baking/cooking,
gardening/landscaping, singing in a male choral group and traveling. Renz is also now interested in giving back through volunteering and board service. Having built a 10 x 12 greenhouse and multiple raised beds, Renz feels prepared to offer his expertise to this
Board as well as continuing to learn about the craft participating on the Board.

Jerry Richardson calls himself a semi-native New Mexican, as he moved to New Mexico when he was 14.  He is a retired attorney and administrative law judge who retired after a career in New Mexico state government.  He was named the Public Lawyer of the Year by the New Mexico State Bar in 2002.  He first joined the Santa Fe Botanical Garden Board in 2012 and has chaired the Garden’s Governance Committee for a number of years during his Board terms.  He also has been a long-time board member of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation and recently became a Trustee Emeritus in recognition of his long service.  For many years he was also is President of his neighborhood association, the Historic Guadalupe Neighborhood Association.  He has enjoyed gardening for much of his life and especially the pruning of trees, which he regards as long term sculpture.  He did major pruning and thinning of the plantings of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Abiquiu property when working for her for several years in the mid-seventies.  His other hobbies include travel, camping in the American West and hiking.

Doris Roland is a committed Santa Fean and was among the original supporters of the Museum Hill Garden.  With her husband Arnold, she made the naming gift for “Veronica Lake” when the Garden opened in 2013.  Their generous support has continued, including a gift of sculpture to the Garden’s permanent collection.  The Roland’s also spend time each winter in their Tucson home.

After graduating from San Diego State University, Doris began her career in initially in London and later in San Francisco. Moving into financial services with a major US insurance society, Doris gained deep experience in assisting seniors with financial safety and retirement planning.  This experience prepared her uniquely for contributions to non-profits in various aspects of planned giving, and building endowment funds and foundations.

In addition to her service to the Botanical Garden, Doris has spent more than 25 years as a member and officer of the Santa Fe Garden Club. Serving in virtually every leadership position and as a passionate gardener.

Her non-profit commitments include service on the Friends of Indian Arts Board and the Museum of New Mexico Foundation Board. In Arizona, she added service on the Arizona State Museum Board and in the Friends of the Collection organization.  She has been instrumental in the Brandeis University National Committee.

Doris’s substantive knowledge of plant propagation and seed collection as well as her experience and interest in fund raising, planned giving and Board governance  make her a valuable Garden Board member.

Martha Romero has pursued a lifelong career in leadership development in higher education and board governance. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado and her career has taken her to Texas, Colorado, California, and back to her native New Mexico. While in California, she was a community college president and later developed leadership institutes to prepare professionals for community college presidencies and to develop community leadership skills. She has taught graduate seminars in organizational development at the University of Colorado, University of New Mexico and Claremont Graduate University. Her consulting work has included work with non-profit boards and community colleges in strategic planning and board structure/governance issues. She served for several years on the board of trustees of the Santa Fe Community College, a position elected by the voters of Santa Fe and Santa Fe County.

Alex Speyer (Alexander Speyer III) is a Chemical Engineer who graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.  He is a lifetime trustee of the Chicago Museum of Art.  Alex is on the boards of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC) and the Pittsburgh Botanical Garden.  He is Chairman of the committee of WPC that oversees Fallingwater, the Frank Lloyd Wright designed iconic home in southwestern Pennsylvania.  Hobbies for Alex include hiking, skiing, art and wine.

Roger Stutz, an Ohio native, after graduating from the Ohio State University, joined the Los Alamos National laboratory as a technical staff member in the Theoretical Physics division in 1968. He retired from the Los Alamos National laboratory in 2005 from the Nonproliferation and International Security division. He is an active volunteer for the Del Norte Credit Union with 40+ years of service and an active member of the Los Alamos Kiwanis club for the past 35 years. He and his wife, a native New Mexican, enjoy hiking in New Mexico and the western part of the US and has completed a significant portion of the Continental Divide Trail. During his time in New Mexico, he has been actively gardening in the challenging conditions of northern New Mexico, trying numerous native and non-native plants. He also enjoys photographing the plants and scenery of northern New Mexico.

Lisa Rossbacher is a geologist who served as a university president for 21 years, working at public institutions in Georgia and California. Her interest in the natural world began when she was in grade school, attending (and later working as an instructor) at a conservation-education camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She earned her B.S. from Dickinson College, a master’s degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton (now Binghamton University), and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. Her research was on the role of water and water ice on the planet Mars, and she was once a finalist for NASA’s astronaut candidate program. After moving to Santa Fe with her husband Dallas (who is also a geologist) in 2019, she has focused on writing, reading, learning more about drawing and watercolor painting, trying to wrangle the tumbleweeds in their yard, and catering to the whims of their dog. One of their first actions in New Mexico was becoming members and volunteering at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden. She particularly values the Garden’s educational mission and the
strong sense of place, highlighting the unique environment of this region.

Della Warrior is the recently retired Director of the New Mexico Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (2013-2021). Before that, she served as President of the Institute of American Indian Arts (1998-2006). She is the first and only woman to serve as the Chair and CEO for the Otoe-Missouria Tribe. She graduated from Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, OK, in sociology and received her master’s degree in education from Harvard University. Her career began as the director of social services for Head Start for six counties in Kansas. She then became the Director of Indian Education for Albuquerque, serving 117 schools and roughly 3300 Indian students from over 100 tribes. In 2021, she retired fand became the president and CEO of the Multi-Indigenous Initiative for Community Advancement (the MICA group), an organization she founded with Wilma Mankiller in 2006 as a vehicle to share fundraising and programmatic expertise to underserved Indigenous communities.

Harry Werksman is an accomplished TV writer-producer with over 25 years of experience, known for his work on popular series such as Star Trek: DS9, Grey’s Anatomy, Ugly Betty, and Moonlight. Born in Pittsburgh and raised in Palm Springs, he pursued a BA in History and Political Science from Northwestern University and an M.Litt. in modern history from Oxford University. Transitioning from academia, Werksman worked in crisis management communications before becoming a full-time writer. He has been nominated for multiple prestigious awards and has won a WGA Award, a Golden Globe, and a People’s Choice Award. A history and sci-fi enthusiast, Werksman enjoys cooking and now resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he continues to write and engage in community projects.