Meet Our Team
Millie Reidy
Program Director and Director of Post Secondary Student Experience, CCE
Millie has over ten years of college and career counseling experience. While at Wood River High School, she significantly increased the first generation Go-On rate. In addition to her experience in education, Millie worked as an engineer for Frito-Lay and as a technical sales representative for Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems.
Laura Rose Lewis
Executive Director, Far + Wise
Laura Rose-Lewis is a nonprofit executive who brings extensive private and nonprofit sector experience to her work. After graduating from the University of Oregon, Laura moved to the Bay Area, where she worked in sales for private sector firms before transitioning to the nonprofit sector.
Impassioned by nonprofit sector work, she earned a master’s degree in public administration from Lewis & Clark College, in Oregon, with program emphasis on nonprofit management. She subsequently founded a nonprofit consulting firm in Portland and worked with a range of nonprofit organizations on organizational development, strategic planning, and growth. Laura then received her Executive Coaching Certification from the Hudson Institute in Santa Barbara to focus on her work with executive leaders of nonprofits.
Laura has consulted for nonprofit organizations for over two decades, supporting leaders to build organizational capacity through strategic planning, development, communications, and public relations. Laura has demonstrated expertise in organizational capacity building through the development of strategic growth, partnership engagement, organizational strategy, management, and operations.
In addition to her leadership work as an Executive Coach, Consultant, and Executive Director, Laura has served on the boards of social service and educational nonprofit organizations, including Catlin Gabel School in Portland, Oregon, Cascade Aids Project, The Children’s Cancer Association, Temple Beth Israel Social Action Committee, and The Advocates in Hailey ID.
When not at work, Laura is passionate about spending time with her husband outdoors and spending time with their three adult children and their significant others in NY or Sun Valley and any other place they can find time together.
Jennifer Gennuso
Associate Director, CCE
Jennifer Gennuso comes to us with over 17 years of non-profit experience serving the Stanford University School of Medicine. She grew up in Mammoth Lakes, California, and graduated from the University of San Francisco with a degree in communication and a minor in music. Her non-profit career at Stanford Medicine began with working on major grants, then to educational program accreditation, design, and management for the Office of Continuing Medical Education. She became Associate Director of medical alumni relations in 2017.
Jennifer is highly specialized in stewardship, strategy, marketing and communications, grant writing, high-profile program design, and event management.
She is passionate about the value of education, and upon moving to Hailey was thrilled to be offered a position supporting operations, fundraising, and expansion of programs.
When not at work, Jennifer enjoys spending time with friends, family, and her rescue pitbull mix, Hazelnut. She loves to cook, is an incredible gardener, a bonsai enthusiast, and an avid outdoor enthusiast. You can often find her in the mountains camping, hiking, or backpacking.
Tayler Sorensen
Administrative Manager, Far + Wise
Tayler is an Oregon native who moved to the Wood River Valley with her husband and Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Snoopy, in 2021. After graduating from the International Air and Hospitality with a degree in Hotel, Restaurant and Event Management, she started work as an administrative assistant at a small dog training company. Over the next 6 years, she helped grow the business into Portland’s number-one dog trainers.
With a passion for helping those around her succeed, she finds that the most rewarding part of her job is being able to support the educators who are making such a difference in the lives of the children they work with and their families.