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Staff

  • Duane Ninneman, Executive Director
    Joining CURE in 2005, Ninneman was named Executive Director in 2013. He has taken the lead on broadening and deepening the conversations needed to achieve meaningful and lasting results in About Me
  • Peg Furshong, Director of Constituent Relations and Special Projects
    Peg Furshong joined CURE in August of 2012.  Over the years, Peg has worn many administrative hats, currently she is working on constituent engagement, leading our water work under the About Me
  • Erik Hatlestad, Director of Rural Cooperative Energy
    Erik grew up on a small family farm in the Norway Lake community and is a lifelong resident of rural Western Minnesota. Since 2013 Erik has joined a proud tradition About Me
  • Maggie Schuppert, Director of Strategic Initiatives
    Maggie joined CURE at the end of 2021 as Director of Strategic Initiatives. She is helping to build CURE’s capacity for strategic communications, campaigns, and advocacy. Maggie is a Minnesota About Me
  • Misty Butler, Director of Digital Media Communications
    Misty joined CURE as a team member at the beginning of 2023. She brings to CURE a passion for digital design and branding. She collaborates to design, implement, and manage About Me
  • Anne Borgendale, Communications Director
    Anne Borgendale is CURE’s Communications Director. She joined CURE in 2017. Anne works to communicate CURE’s grassroots, progressive vision for the future rural places as it relates to CURE’s work About Me
  • Sarah Mooradian, Government Relations & Policy Director
    Sarah joined CURE in the fall of 2021. Sarah graduated from Vermont Law School with both a J.D. and a Master of Environmental Law and Policy. She is passionate about About Me
  • Hudson Kingston, Legal Director
    Hudson Kingston, Legal Director, joined CURE in 2023 with a background in environmental law, public health law, and consumer protection. He brings experience partnering with tribes, local nonprofits, low-income advocates, About Me
  • Andy Pearson, Senior Organizer, False Climate Solutions
    Andy Pearson (he/him) joined CURE in 2024. His focus is on “false solutions” to the climate crisis along with fossil fuel infrastructure including crude oil pipelines. He brings over a About Me
  • Eugene Strowbridge, Policy & Outreach Strategist
    Eugene joined CURE in early 2025 with a focus on advancing environmental justice and just climate solutions in rural Minnesota communities. Previously, Eugene served as a Tribal Planner and Sustainability About Me
  • Sara Wolff, Rural Policy and Democracy Strategist
    Sara is a lawyer and climate policy strategist. She joined CURE in the summer of 2022 as a Minnesota Rural Democracy Project and Democracy and Climate Pledge Organizer. Between 2017 About Me
  • Clovis Curl, Communications and Research Strategist
    Clovis Curl joined CURE in the Fall of 2021. As the Communications and Research Strategist, Clovis assists with a variety of projects, from investigative research to community outreach. With a About Me
  • Mitchell Hancock, Research and Digital Media Strategist
    Mitchell joined CURE as the Research and Digital Media Strategist in the summer of 2022. He originally moved to west central Minnesota to attend college. During that time, he grew About Me
  • Maureen Laughlin, Financial Manager
    Maureen started working as CURE’s Financial Manager in February 2021. Maureen served as CFO and Office Manager for Hasslen Construction for over 20 years. Prior, she spent six years working About Me
  • Andrea Fox Jensen, Consultant
    Andrea Fox Jensen is an independent planning consultant based in Litchfield, Minnesota and Rudkøbing, Denmark. She provides a range of expertise to organizations that serve the public good, including comprehensive About Me
  • Marek Chorobski, Legal Intern
    Marek is a third-year JD/Masters of Energy Regulation and Law dual degree student at Vermont Law and Graduate School. He grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA, living next About Me
  • Dina Crouch, Legal Intern
    Dina Crouch is a third-year law student at the University of St. Thomas. She holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. Originally from About Me

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