Staff & Consultants
Melissa Lopez, Staff
Operations Manager
Melissa Lopez was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area before moving to Monterey to attend CSU Monterey Bay majoring in Social and Behavioral Sciences with a minor in atypical human development. Melissa began her professional career in the Special Education field before switching to the nonprofit sector.
Before leaving Monterey, Melissa was the Program Director of MEarth, an environmental education nonprofit where she started an internship program for high school and middle school youth, led several fundraising events a year, and grew and managed youth programming.
Melissa moved to Plumas County with her two children and husband in 2020. She worked as the Program Manager of Plumas CASA for two years, before becoming the Operations Manager for the Almanor Foundation. She is also President of the Feather River Food Co-op and an active member of Mountain Valley Parents Club in Indian Valley.
Alisha Wilson, Staff
Community Services Manager
Alisha, a resident of Greenville, has worked in the non-profit sector since 2014. Many of her early years involved tribal work with both The Greenville Rancheria and The Maidu Summit Consortium. Here she engaged both the tribal and broader community in the areas of environment and cultural preservation. Following the Dixie Fire, Alisha became involved in Disaster Response and Recovery work. Her networking skills and desire to connect stakeholders, community members and resources make her a great fit for the position she now holds at TAF.
As a mother to two children, Kendall and Zoe, Alisha found the Plumas County area to be the perfect place to live and work. Alisha and her girl’s favorite thing to do during their down time is frequent Lake Almanor with the family dog, a German Shepheard named Rumor. Here, in beautiful Plumas County, Alisha and her children enjoy the beautiful mountains scenery, the lakes, streams and long afternoons paddleboarding and swimming.
Katherine Sansone, Consultant
Sansone+ PR & Marketing
Katherine, a new local, having moved to Lake Almanor full-time in 2019, has been coming to the lake since she was a child. As the founder and principal of SANSONE+ PR & MARKETING since 1986, Katherine remains busy with clients such as The Almanor Foundation while participating and contributing to her new community.
Katherine is our consultant for marketing and PR. She volunteers on the development committee for the Town Plaza and is Chair of the Lake Almanor Community Foundation for the LACC community. katherine@sansoneplus.com
