JIM NELSON
Chairman & Treasurer
Big Horn, WY and Houston, TX
Jim Nelson is a founding member of our board and has served as our Treasurer since the inception of the Foundation; our Founder Raymond Plank asked Jim to take over as Chair in November 2013, when Raymond elected to step aside from day-to-day activities. Jim’s entire professional career has been in the Energy industry. Today, he serves on the boards and audit committees of three publicly traded and one privately owned oil and gas company. He also serves on the boards of two other nonprofits: Volunteers of America Northern Rockies and Stop Oil Seeps California. Jim resides in Big Horn, Wyoming, and has offices in Houston, Texas, and Santa Barbara, California. He has a BS from Holy Cross College and an MBA from Harvard University.

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Clearmont, WY 82835

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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 Fellowships for Native American Visual Artists in 2017 and Native American Writers in 2020.
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.