Winter Fishtrap Presenters

Nils Christoffersen is the Executive Director of Wallowa Resources. He has diverse experience in place-based natural resource management from working around the world, including ranching in Australia, farming in Israel, fishing and forestry in Norway, and forestry and wildlife in southern Africa. He is passionate about working landscapes and the role of rural communities in their stewardship. Nils is a graduate of both Williams College (B.A. in Economics) and Oxford University (M.S. Forestry) and has served on many local and national boards – including the National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry, Oregon Board of Forestry, and World Forest Center. He also served on the Enterprise School District Board from 2004-2017 and the Winding Waters Medical Clinic from 2014-2020. He is currently the chair of Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition’s steering committee. RVCC advances placed-based policy solutions from across the rural West to advance stewardship economies associated with public and private working lands.

Marcia Franklin has been a producer and host at Idaho Public Television since 1990. She is currently the lead producer for “createid,” the station’s program covering the arts in Idaho. For more than 25 years, she was the producer and host of Dialogue, a statewide conversation program focusing on the humanities. She also produces programs for the station’s history and outdoors series. Marcia has also produced special documentaries, including “Barbara Morgan: No Limits,” “Hearts and Minds: Teens and Mental Illness,” and “The Color of Conscience.” Her programs have garnered some of the highest media honors, including a George Foster Peabody Award, the Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar Association, and five regional Emmy Awards.

In 2003, Marcia traveled to Iran for six weeks on a Pew Fellowship in International Journalism. She produced, filmed and edited a documentary about the environmental movement in that country. Marcia is a founding board member of the non-partisan City Club of Boise and a past president of that organization. For many years, she was a “Big Sister” in Big Brothers, Big Sisters, and is still close to her “little sister.” She’s a frequent moderator at events around the state.

Prior to taking her position at IdahoPTV, Marcia worked as a general assignment reporter at KIFI-TV in Idaho Falls and was the assistant to the news director at KQED-TV in San Francisco. A native of Washington, DC, she has an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University. She enjoys reading, cycling, traveling and cats.

Dr. Kristine F. Hoover is a professor and chair of the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership program where she leads the Change Leadership concentration. Some of her past leadership positions include director of the Gonzaga Center for the Study of Hate, chair of the Washington State Legislative Ethics Board, and trainer for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). She came from Bowling Green State University in Ohio to Gonzaga in 2009, drawn by its Catholic, Jesuit, Humanistic mission.

Under Dr. Hoover’s directorship, the Gonzaga Center for the Study of Hate has continued to publish the Journal of Hate Studies, a peer reviewed academic journal, and honored the legacy of holocaust survivor Eva Lassman through the Take Action Against Hate and Student Research awards. She designed new courses at the freshman, senior, and graduate levels to support students’ understanding of why people hate and leadership to counter hate. Her most recent publications include Countering Hate: Leadership Cases of Nonviolent Action, which explores the leadership of ordinary people who have accomplished extraordinary things to build inclusive communities and counter hate groups across the United States.

Projects currently underway include the creation of a digital archive honoring the leadership of photographer Diana Gissell, who documented the demise of the Idaho Aryan Nations compound; the creation of a documentary honoring the lifetime achievements of Dutch Resistance fighter Carla Peperzak, a woman whose leadership directly saved the lives of 40 people from Nazi extermination and who continues to educate the next generation about the importance of tolerance and inclusion; and the PNW MOSAIC, an online storytelling resource to acknowledge and celebrate people and places of the Pacific Northwest: Mapping Othering, Strength, & Allyship In Community.

Seth Kinzie is a peace ambassador and pianist from Joseph, Oregon. He was a 2021 Rotary Peace Fellow at Makerere University, in Uganda, where he received a post-graduate Diploma of Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation. He performed field research on the indigenous research methodology for a grassroots peace index in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Malawi. In 2022, he founded the African Peacemaking Database, based in Malawi, where he works in partnership with the Ministry of Peace and African Union. He has previously served as an interfaith director for Peace Ambassadors Pakistan and Monks Without Borders. He currently works as a piano composer and teacher, and writes for the impressionist instrumental quartet, Kinzie Steele.

Steve Radcliffe is a blue-collar boy from Western Pennsylvania, now retired on a mountainside in Southern Oregon. He spent the first half of his working years with the tools and the rest with a necktie. And he’s a Bluegrass guitar player with a degree in philosophy. He co-organized the first Braver Angels Workshop in southern Oregon, a Red/Blue, late in 2018 and then a Common Ground Workshop on the abortion issue a year later. Since then, he has been working to develop a local Braver Angels Alliance and is also working on a statewide initiative to address the Rural/Urban Divide in Oregon.

“I realized in the spring of 2017 that I could not, in good conscience, sit still for what I saw going on in the country. I wondered what to do; what’s my niche, where can I do the most good? After lengthy and careful reflection, I decided that civility would be my target. I have been troubled for many years by what I see as a lack of civility in our society, particularly in political discourse. I fell in with a small group of like-minded folks; we were meeting regularly and sharing a lot of “do-gooder” ideas, and I persuaded them to focus on civil discourse. Then one day something drifted across my screen from Braver Angels. And the rest is history.”