Nicole Buecker
Administrative Director
Focused on executing the passion and ideas of Danielle and her team, Nicole Buecker is the administrative and logistical support for Connect 3. She graduated from the University of Washington with a B.S. in Economics and a minor in Environmental Science.
Her undergraduate research includes the topics of fisheries management and macroeconomic impacts of recreational, public land use on local communities. Her field experience includes time in Morocco studying the agricultural supply chain and implementing farming and processing strategies for a remote community in the High Atlas Mountains. In her free time she enjoys mountain biking, fishing and hiking in the Pacific Northwest.
Nicole Buecker
Administrative Director
Focused on executing the passion and ideas of Danielle and her team, Nicole Buecker is the administrative and logistical support for Connect 3. She graduated from the University of Washington with a B.S. in Economics and a minor in Environmental Science.
Her undergraduate research includes the topics of fisheries management and macroeconomic impacts of recreational, public land use on local communities. Her field experience includes time in Morocco studying the agricultural supply chain and implementing farming and processing strategies for a remote community in the High Atlas Mountains. In her free time she enjoys mountain biking, fishing and hiking in the Pacific Northwest.
Nicole Buecker
Administrative Director
Focused on executing the passion and ideas of Danielle and her team, Nicole Buecker is the administrative and logistical support for Connect 3. She graduated from the University of Washington with a B.S. in Economics and a minor in Environmental Science.
Her undergraduate research includes the topics of fisheries management and macroeconomic impacts of recreational, public land use on local communities. Her field experience includes time in Morocco studying the agricultural supply chain and implementing farming and processing strategies for a remote community in the High Atlas Mountains. In her free time she enjoys mountain biking, fishing and hiking in the Pacific Northwest.

Brant Girard
Board Member
Brant Girard is the legal counselor of Connect 3 as well as a director and has run his own law firm for the past 20 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has broad experience in Business/Corporate Law, Corporate Formation/Administration/Fund Raising, Real Estate, Real Estate Development and Litigation and acts as outside general counsel to several clients in very diverse fields. Prior to his law career he was a molecular biologist working for DNA Plant Technologies in Berkeley and the Plant Cell Research Institute in Dublin, California. In his private time he is an avid scuba diver and enjoys travel to exotic locations.
He attended Santa Clara Law School and Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.