Jann Dorman is FOR’s Executive Director and Board Chair. She has been a member of the FOR board since 2012. Jann worked for over 23 years for a large national non-profit healthcare organization, holding various roles as vice president leading large operations, improvement and innovation efforts. Jann has always been drawn to the power of wilderness, water and rivers. She spent most of the 1970’s as a river rafting guide on the Stanislaus, American, Tuolumne, and many other great western whitewater rivers. Jann now lives across the street from the American river in Coloma with her husband Don.
Jann holds bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, a master’s degree in Physical Therapy from Stanford University School of Medicine, and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.