DEBORAH KOEHLER
Houston, TX
Deborah Koehler has been involved with Ucross since 2006. She is responsible for continuing the philanthropic vision and direction of Ucross Founder Raymond Plank (1922 to 2018), for whom she served as principal executive after his retirement from Apache Corporation in 2009. In addition to numerous other charitable activities and responsibilities, Deb is Executive Director of the Raymond N. Plank Philanthropy Fund, overseeing portfolio management and grant allocation. She lives in Houston, Texas, spends significant time in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Ucross, Wyoming, and has traveled the world extensively. Prior to joining Mr. Plank at Apache in 2006, Deb had a successful twenty-year career in healthcare management in the Houston area. Her artistic loves include dance, photography, Western art, film, and musical theater. 

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Photo credits: Board and staff photos courtesy of William Coupon; additional website images courtesy of Martirene Alcantara, Trine Bumiller, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Bill Megalos, and Neerja Kothari: video on homepage courtesy of Bill Megalos.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Ucross Foundation acknowledges with respect that it is situated on the aboriginal land of several Indigenous communities, including the Cheyenne, Crow, and Lakota nations. Indigenous people continue to live in this area and practice their teachings and lifeways. Today, this region remains an important place for many Indigenous peoples. As a Wyoming institution, we recognize and respect this historical context and are working to build reciprocal relationships with the Native nations on whose lands we are situated. In partial fulfillment of that commitment, Ucross established a Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists in 2017, which will expand to include Native American writers in 2021.