Ariel Cherbowsky Corkidi

Executive Director

As the executive director of San Bruno Mountain Watch, Ariel (he/him) oversees the planning, funding, and operation of our restoration, education, and nursery programs, carries out the administration of our non-profit, and implements our strategic plan. Ariel believes deeply in the democratic potential of community-based ecological restoration and in the power of place-based environmental education. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources. Before joining San Bruno Mountain Watch in 2015, Ariel worked with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy’s Park Stewardship Program. In his free time, Ariel likes to read environmental history, explore the Bay Area’s vast trail network, and play guitar.

Aspen Garrido

Ecological Restoration and Education Specialist

Restore and learn about the ecosystems of San Bruno Mountain with Aspen! 

Aspen (she/her) has a degree in Environmental Management and Protection with a minor in Indigenous Studies in Natural Resources from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Aspen helped develop a restoration management plan for The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County’s Santa Rita Ranch and worked as an environmental educator at One Cool Earth and the Pali Institute.

Lucy Malamud-Roam

Nursery Fellow

Grow the native plants of San Bruno Mountain with Lucy at Mission Blue Nursery!

Lucy worked for four years as a field assistant at the Younger Lagoon Ecological Reserve in Santa Cruz, helping restore former agricultural land to native coastal prairie, scrub, and seasonal wetland habitats, and carrying out seed collection and propagation for the reserve's greenhouses. After completing a degree in environmental studies and biology at UC Santa Cruz, Lucy worked as a habitat restoration intern with the National Parks Service in the GGNRA and a field biologist for LSA Associates, Inc. and Kleinfelder, Inc. Lucy is also an experienced environmental educator, having worked as a course technician for the University of California Ecology and Conservation Field Quarter, a recreation leader for the East Bay Regional Parks District, an educator at Nature’s Classroom Institute, a naturalist with Naturalists At Large, and a kayak guide.