Our Board of Directors consists of long-time northern New Mexico residents who provide a variety of important skills in fund-raising, nonprofit and financial management, outdoor education, job training, case management and New Mexico’s Medicaid waiver programs.
BOARD MEMBERS
Peter Donahue, VICE President
Peter Donahue has been a professional snowsports instructor and river guide since the early 1980’s. Over the years he gained extensive experience in teaching, coaching, and guiding a broad range of individuals with physical and intellectual disabilities participating in snowsports and outdoor recreation.
Peter has 14 years of nonprofit board leadership experience, serving on the Professional Ski Instructors of America’s Rocky Mountain regional and national boards of directors, where he served as the national Secretary, and chaired the National Children’s Education Task Force. Currently, he is the Director of Inclusion Programs for the Taos Winter Sports Team (TWST) where he manages snowsports scholarships for disabled and at-risk youth, coaches the Special Olympics team, and co-directs TWST’s Spectrum Race Camp for Athletes with Intellectual Disability at Mt. Hood, OR.
Stacey Ehlers, BOARD MEMBER
Stacey Ehlers is an outdoor enthusiast, who loves skiing, tennis, golf and hiking. She grew up in Jackson Hole, WY and moved to Santa Fe in 1992 to attend Jay Scherer Academy of Natural Healing to study Massage and never left. At heart, Stacey is an entrepreneur. Beginning in 1999, she owned and operated Santa Fe Massage, successful day spas in Santa Fe, including at Hotel Santa Fe and La Fonda Hotel. She sold Santa Fe Massage in 2017 and officially retired to spend more time focused on her family. She and her husband, Peter Ehlers, are the co-founders of High Country Supported Living, along with fellow board members, Gretchen Grogan and Peter Donahue. She is fully dedicated to HCSL and ensuring that its mission of creating a supported environment where developmentally disabled individuals and their nondisabled peers can reach their full potential is realized.
Peter and Stacey raised their two children in Santa Fe. Their developmentally disabled son, Meade lives full time at HCSL’s property in Jacona along with his parents. Peter and Stacey’s daughter, Emma, is a full time student at the University of Puget Sound in Washington and loves coming home to northern New Mexico whenever she can.
Gretchen Grogan, PRESIDENT
Before retiring in 2023, Gretchen Grogan spent twenty years managing the conservation easement and public trails programs of the Galisteo Basin Preserve, a 9,000-acre open space and community stewardship project in Santa Fe, NM, for its nonprofit owner, Commonweal Conservancy. Prior to helping launch Commonweal Conservancy in 2003, Gretchen worked for many years in publishing, the performing arts and software development. She holds bachelor's degrees in economics and art history from Georgetown University and a master's degree in community and regional planning from the University of New Mexico. Gretchen loves being outdoors whenever she can and is an avid skier, cyclist, hiker and trail runner. She served for eight years on the City of Santa Fe’s Bicycle and Trails Advisory Committee (BTAC). She and her husband, Peter Donahue, are the co-founders of High Country Supported Living, along with fellow board member, Stacey Ehlers and her husband, Peter.
Gretchen and Peter are the proud parents of Eliza, who also loves the outdoors and resides in Bozeman, MT and Liam, their developmentally disabled son. Liam and his parents are currently living part-time at HCSL’s property in Jacona.
LAUREN HENRY, SECRETARY
Susan Sattell, board member
Lynn Taulbee, TREASURER
Lynn Taulbee has extensive experience in non-profit and for-profit organizations in Santa Fe and New Mexico, including marketing and development experience at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, St. Vincent Hospital Foundation, Stereophile, and others. She is currently the ArtWorks Program Director at Partners in Education Foundation for the Santa Fe Public Schools, and loves helping public school students connect to art in Santa Fe in a meaningful way.
Lynn is involved with the Sangre de Cristo Chorale as both a singer and board member. A native Santa Fean, Lynn has a B.A. in Marketing from Missouri State University, and an M.B.A. from the University of New Mexico. Lynn enjoys hiking, camping, and spending time with her husband and two daughters.