Meet our PPOS Board Members
Lawrence Rugar, President
Lawrence and his wife Carolyn moved to Pagosa Springs in April of 2021. Lawrence and Carolyn moved to Pagosa to live close to their son Tim and daughter-in-law Laura who have been here for about 12 years and have added to the family three wonderful and happy grandchildren. Tim and Laura own and operate the Thingamajig Theater and The Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts.
Lawrence, by history, was a high school teacher and coach prior to entering the military service as an Army Ranger. Most of his post military experience has been in Corporate Risk Management with children and adolescent RCCF and psychiatric hospital, acute rehab hospital, and high end senior living experiences. The later of which comprised of 50 large senior living communities in 10 states. Lawrence is a life long learner and as such joined the PPOS Board with the goal of reinforcing the PPOS mission and values which includes the development of life long learning instilled in our students for generations to come.
Jesse White , Vice President
Jesse and his wife Emily moved to Pagosa Springs in May of 2019. Emily had grown up visiting Pagosa from Santa Fe since she was a child and brought Jesse here when they started dating in 2008. They moved here with a shared love of skiing and the outdoors wanting both of their children, JJ and Ellie, to grow up in Pagosa Springs.
Jesse is currently employed as a Director of Engineering working remotely for Salesforce in San Francisco and building a career in Leadership. His focus is strategic growth for businesses, setting goals and objectives and achieving outcomes for stakeholders.
Pamela Meade, Treasurer
Pamela Meade is the President/CEO of Designs for Learning, a consulting company that supports charter schools with the complex and inter-related tasks of founding, developing, managing, and growing self-sufficient schools. Pamela incorporates her management skills to coordinate Designs for Learning operations, spearhead strategic initiatives, and create systems and procedures for DL’s core services. She was a Business Manager with Minneapolis Public Schools, and for three charter schools in MN (including a founding staff member), and assisted PPOS with some pre-operational support.
Pamela has a Master of Art Degree in Professional Communications (MPC) and a Master of Science in Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution (MSCM). She has worked in the fields of legal compliance, contract negotiation, project coordination, grant management, and school finance.
Now living in Pagosa full time, Pamela, husband Sean and her 2 kids were part-timers since 2009, splitting their time living in Northeast Arizona on the Navajo Nation and enjoying weekends of skiing, music, and fun here in Colorado. Her continuing work on the Navajo Nation supports Evaluation and Program support for Domestic Violence Prevention, Drug and Suicide Prevention programs and SEL Enrichment for youth and families.
Bill Hudson, Secretary and Co-founder
Catherine Siebel, Board Member