Ellen Stein

Ellen Stein cut her teeth in environmental advocacy in 1991 as a board member of the Telluride-based Sheep Mountain Alliance. She was the founding director of the Mountain Studies Institute in Silverton and the executive director of the Community Agriculture Alliance in Steamboat Springs. As the membership coordinator for Great Old Broads, Stein is responsible for organizing far-flung, ad hoc, watchdog groups — “Broadbands” — which form around local issues that adhere to the organization’s mission of protecting wilderness-quality public land.