GSRVAA Leadership Team
Kris Klos, Chair
Kris is a Lifetime Girl Scout who proudly earned her Gold Award as a girl while in the Woodlake Service Unit (Richfield, MN). She is a founding member of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and the Lily of the Valleys Garden Club Special Interest Groups and has volunteered her time in different roles at the service unit level and at council and alumnae events. Kris is now a leader for her daughter’s troop.
Kris works at the Minnesota Department of Health as the Supervisor of the Health Risk Assessment Unit.
Juliann Nelson-Duffy, Treasurer
Juliann began her Girl Scout journey as a Brownie and Junior Girl Scout. As an adult, she led both of her daughters’ troops and was a member of the North Pines Service Unit Team, earning the Outstanding Volunteer Award for her service. She is a founding member of the STEM Special Interest Group. She joined the RVAA Leadership Team as Treasurer in 2014. Juliann worked as an actuary for Securian Financial Group for 39 years and retired in 2016.
Becca Mitchell, Secretary
Becca Mitchell is a Lifetime Member who started as a Daisy and hasn’t looked back since. She is a member of the Camp Northwoods Alumnae Association, the Caddie Committee, and the Forever Green Awards Committee.
Becca has a degree in mathematics and found her passion working in biostatistics and health data science. She’s a soccer fan who plays percussion in two orchestras, enjoys cross-stitching, plays too many video games, and is working on gardening. Becca lives in St. Paul with her partner, Sasha.
Mary Selby, Media & Data Management
Mary’s connection to Girl Scouts began when she became a leader for her youngest daughter’s Brownie troop,w hich she led until they graduated from high school. Since then, she has filled many volunteer roles with the Rosewood and Roseville Service Units, incluidng cookie manager, events coordinator and digital media manager. She joined the RVAA Leadership Team in 2013 as Events Coordinator and served for many years as the Forever Green Breakfast Chair.
Mary and her husband, Denny, have two grown daughters and five grandchildren. She retired from her medical records duties in 2015 and enjoys quilting and many other hand crafts.
Emily White, Adult Awards
Emily has been a registered Girl Scout for 67 years, including 57 years as a troop leader. She currently leads a CSA troop and is a caddie trainer and service unit volunteer. She has attended seven national conventions, including serving as a delegate. She has been a day camp director and co-chair of the Friends of Our Chalet USA. She is the chair of the Heritage Committee Special Interest Group.
Besides Girl Scouts, she volunteers for many other community non-profit organizations, including a food shelf, Newport Park Board, North Star Museum and her church council. She enjoys gardening and sewing and spending time with her children, grandchildren and spoiled pug Apollo.
A.J. Steinbring, RVAA Scholarship
A.J. Steinbring has been a Girl Scout since she was in first grade and earned her Silver and Gold Awards. After attending Camp Northwoods for a decade as a camper, she spent seven glorious summers working there and now serves as the chair of the Camp Northwoods Alumnae Association. She also volunteers on the Caddie Committee and chairs the Forever Green Scholarship Committee.
She graduated from Metropolitan State University with a double BA in Research/Information Studies and English Literature and is an executive assistant for General Mills. She spends her free time hiking state parks with her dog, caring for a balcony garden and a growing collection of houseplants, and reading books to her nephew.
Natasha Groth, Member Engagement
Tasha started as a Brownie Girl Scout in Delano and remained a Girl Scout until her leaders moved out of the Service Unit when she was a Cadette. Tasha got back into Girl Scouts when her daughter started Kindergarten and the troop needed a co-leader and cookie manager. A year later she took over the troop, and the girls and Tasha went on many adventures through 16 states. Tasha also served as service unit manager for four years.
Tasha graduated from CSB/SJU with a BA in Psychology and is the HR and Office Manager for a steel erection firm in the west metro. She has a daughter, son and great husband. Her hobbies include running her gluten free cottage bakery and being outdoors as much as possible, including a minimum of 20 camping trips a year!
Karen Klose, Member at Large
Karen Klose began her Girl Scout adventures in 1975, when she took her 8-year-old daughter to day camp. She was a troop leader, service team member and day camp director. She worked for the Minneapolis Council in many camp and outoor programming positions, including Day Camp Coordinator for all council day camps and Director of Camp Greenwood and Camp Ruby Lake. She is the founder of the Second Winds Special Interest Group and a member of several others.
Stephanie Burton, Member at Large
Stephanie became a Girl Scout in 1965 and has been enjoying everything about it ever since — especially spending time outdoors, making new friends, singing around the camp fire, teaching others and working with girls. She earned the First Class Award and was a Mariner Scout. She led her first troop at age 18 and has held nearly every position available (except anything to do with cookies) in three councils. She is chair of the Connections Retreat Committee and a member of the Cambridge/Isanti Service Unit team. Though she does not have any children of her own, she recognized the importance of sharing her wonderful experiences with both girls and adults and continues that today.
The GSRVAA Leadership Team is scouting for new board members. For more information, please email Kris.
