our Team

CAELAN MCGEE

Founder and Senior Mediator / Facilitator

Caelan is the Principal of Zephyr Collaboration, which he formed in 2017, and is a Senior Mediator with 24 years of experience helping stakeholders develop more effective policy for land use, environmental, public health and security issues. Caelan has extensive practice working on high conflict and technically complex projects in transportation and forest planning. He has worked nationally and internationally on public policy issues regarding mining, fisheries management, air quality, and environmental justice. He also has extensive experience in strategic planning and interagency coordination. 

JENNIFER MAIR

Senior Facilitator

Jen Mair has 12 years of experience working with local, regional, state, and federal agencies providing facilitation, public outreach and engagement, tiered stakeholder engagement, situation and stakeholder assessment, collaborative strategic planning, and inclusive and equitable process design, as well as delivering trainings and courses to staff and planners on these skills.  She facilitates collaborative decision-making informed by stakeholder and public engagement processes in many contexts, with extensive experience working with agency leaders, staff, and consultants to inform long term planning projects, design/implementation options, and decision-making bodies.  She is committed to providing multiple and creative platforms for broad and diverse stakeholders to understand the issues at hand and to voice their interests and perspectives.  She is dedicated to ensuring equitable opportunities for engaging in critical plans and decisions that impact and shape our communities.  Jen delivers a course called Community Involvement and Communication in Planning at University of California, Davis, an accredited course for planners seeking professional certification.

MEAGAN WYLIE

Senior Facilitator

Meagan is a Senior Facilitator with Zephyr Collaboration, joining the firm in 2018. She has worked in the field of collaborative policy for 16 years, and her experience includes work on marine and coastal issues, water supply and management, natural resource management, ecosystem dynamics, and climate adaptation planning. Her projects involve cross-cutting jurisdictional issues and priorities, working with stakeholders of diverse backgrounds and cultures, and require the integration of complex scientific and technical information and community knowledge in consensus-building. 

Karen dibari

Senior Facilitator

Karen has focused her career on supporting dialogue and problem-solving at the intersection between natural resource managers and conservation, recreation, and business interests. She has worked since 2006 with place-based and state-level forest collaborative groups and is a leader in designing and facilitating collaborative processes, mentoring the next generation of collaborative leaders, supporting national dialogues around issues such as wildfire, recreation, and environmental analysis, and engaging public land managers and partner organizations to leverage resources and optimize impact. 

JOANNE MARCHETTA

Change Consultant

Joanne is practiced in strategies and techniques of transformational change for individuals, teams, organizations, communities, and cross-sector networks. She joined Zephyr Collaboration in 2023 to leverage her talents from a 40-year career in complex environmental and land use policy development, management of natural resource conservation and restoration programs, conflict resolution, and cross-sector networked leadership for environmental and socioeconomic change. Her 20 years in executive management emphasized building partnerships and collaborative networks to achieve systems transformation through multi-sector collective impact. She is an expert by experience in collaborative leadership, systems change, organizational development and effectiveness, organizational culture change, leadership coaching, impact network development, and complex conflict resolution. She has deep knowledge in how to successfully navigate politically charged, highly visible, and contentious land use, environmental, and natural resource policy disputes, and organizational development and culture change initiatives.