At the Green Mountain Club’s 116th Annual Meeting on Saturday, June 13, 2026, two general seats will open on the board of directors. Directors are elected to three-year terms, with a limit of six consecutive years of board service.
The GMC Nominating Committee presents the following candidates for approval. Read their bios and vote below. The deadline for voting is June 1.
Delia Clark, First Term
Delia Clark is Principal at Confluence, based in Vermont, and is a frequent trainer and facilitator in place-based education, strategic planning, and community engagement throughout the United States and internationally for organizations that include US National Park Service, US Forest Service, Appalachian Trail Conservancy, and Iditarod Historic Trail Alliance. Delia’s wealth of trails management experience includes serving as board member for Appalachian Mountain Club, Stewardship Council member for Appalachian Trail Conservancy, and co-chair of ATC’s Wild East Women. She is currently co-chair of the World Trails Network Advisory Council and the WTN Education & Inclusive Engagement Task Team. Her work experience includes serving as lead trainer for Appalachian Trail to Every Classroom, Iditarod Trail to Every Classroom, and Forest for Every Classroom. Delia is co-author of several books and manuals on place-based learning in public lands, which have collectively been translated into seven languages.
A sixth generation Vermonter, Delia lives in Taftsville, Vermont with her husband, Tim Traver. She has three grown children and two grandchildren, all of whom enjoy frequent trail time. An avid hiker since childhood, Delia has completed thru hikes of the John Muir Trail, Camino de Santiago and half of the Colorado Trail, as well as an end-to-end hike of the Long Trail completed in 2019. www.deliaclarkconfluence.com
David McNally, First Term
David grew up in south Louisiana outside of New Orleans where his connection to the natural world was formed. As a young kid in high school, he explored the pine bogs, hiked bottomland swamps, and explored the bayous that connect the land to the Gulf of Mexico. Once in college at LSU, he studied Environmental Science (BS) and Oceanography (MS). During these years, he became involved in environmental and social justice activism, made frequent expeditions to Big Bend National Park with friends, and spent summers volunteering and traveling in Central America.
This international experience inspired David and his wife Julianna to buy “round-the-world” tickets, where they backpacked for 6 months traveling in India, hiking in the Nepal Himalaya, and traversing Indonesia. The itch to learn from other cultures resulted in David eventually spending 10+ years in Niger and Ghana with the US Peace Corps. Overall, he worked 25+ years in the environmental field and in international development/conservation in West and Central Africa.
For the last 11 years, David has pursued a second career teaching high school science at Winooski High School in Vermont, helping to build the next generations of science learners. After the COVID shutdown, he began hiking the Long Trail to re-energize and reset. It was a transformative experience. Since then, he has organized day hikes for his students in partnership with the GMC, and is currently co-facilitating the Winooski high school outdoor club. In 2025, he succeeded in completing the last section hike of his LT journey. David is excited to support and strengthen this unique natural treasure we have in Vermont, encourage more youth to explore it, and expand GMC’s educational programs.
*Voting is now closed
