Frank Edward Allen is president and executive director of
IJNR.
For more than 25 years, Frank has been a reporter and editor, all
the while slighting his true talents as a painter of landscapes,
performer of card tricks, coach of Little League and impersonator
of Cajuns. He has worked for dailies and news services in Oregon,
Arizona, Minnesota, New York and Pennsylvania without winning a
single Pulitzer Prize.
Frank spent 14 years at The Wall Street Journal, as an editor
for Page One and for the Second Front in New York, as chief of the
Philadelphia bureau for nine years and later as the paper's first
environment editor. Many of the journalists hired and coached by
Frank have since distinguished themselves as award-winning reporters,
foreign correspondents, bureau chiefs and senior editors. One of
them received a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the tobacco industry.
Maggie Bishop Allen is the den mother, bill payer and logistics boss
for all IJNR programs.
This means she is a powerful woman. But she is also
a very nice person. Maggie has bachelor's and master's degrees in
German Language and Literature from Stanford and Oregon, respectively,
that she says come in handy at least once a year.
While Frank was in the Navy, Maggie
worked on Capitol Hill for a senator from her home state of Arizona.
When The Wall Street Journal brought the Allens to New York
in 1979, she joined the headquarters staff of the American Field
Service. In Pennsylvania, she helped a school district transform
its two junior highs into middle schools, and in Montana, she helped
create the Hellgate Writing Center, a volunteer-staffed operation
for coaching students at one of Missoula's three public high schools.
In her spare moments, Maggie climbs into bib overalls and digs in
her garden. In her panic moments, she consults the three Allen sons
for techno assistance in all computer matters.
Melissa Mylchreest is
IJNR's Associate Director for Communications and Research.
Melissa is a freelance writer living in Missoula. She received a B.A. in creative writing from Connecticut College, an M.S. in environmental studies from the University of Montana (UM), and is currently finishing up an MFA in creative writing, also at UM.
But writing all the time sometimes gets boring, so she's done some other things too, including working as a professor, illustrator, chef, government lackey, and barn-dismantler, among many others. A staunch 13th-generation northeasterner who wandered west several years ago, she has been delighted to find that life in Montana is, in fact, very enjoyable too. At IJNR she does whatever needs doing, and when she's not working, she gardens, bikes, makes art, conducts culinary experiments in the kitchen, and spends as much time as possible outside with her two-legged and four-legged buddies.
Adam Hinterthuer is
a project assistant for IJNR.
Adam is a freelance science and environmental writer living in Madison, Wisconsin. When he isn't chasing down story ideas or begging editors for work, Adam spends his free time hiking and camping with his wife, Carrie. He can proudly say he saw his first loon this summer on a lake in Minnesota. His hope for a moose sighting, however, remains unfulfilled. Adam recently received his master's degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin School of Journalism. He has a bachelor's degree from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. He also works on keeping Peter Annin's Web site, www.GreatLakesWaterWars.com, up-to-date and helps put together materials for IJNR's numerous fellowships.