Meet Our Team

John’s credentials include 30 years in youth development, a private practice as a landscape architect, co-founder of Swan Center Outreach and executive director and founder of Blue River Horse Center for Education. His 40 years as a business entrepreneur, life coach/youth mentor, working with clients nationwide, equips John with an in-depth understanding of the demanding world we live in today. His compassion, skills, and “lessons learned experiences” help guide youth and adults to navigate the world with a personal focus, while maintaining a sense of balance and peace in their lives.

Craig and his wife, Lisa, were involved in boarding horses for the past twenty years on their ranch in Delray Beach, Florida, prior to moving to Breckenridge five years ago. Their two daughters were raised tending to the horses and riding from the time they were six years old through high school. Equine therapy was a natural part of their family life!

Craig ran a custom home building company for thirty years, so working around a ranch comes naturally. Hands on carpentry is one of his favorite pastimes, as well as fixing all sorts of machinery and buildings. In addition, Lisa both loves horses and ran a preschool in Florida, and she was a counselor for young adults and couples. All of these past pursuits fit so well with the BRHC mission.

Carole is a retired Executive Recruiter who is originally from the UK. After moving to the US in 2005 she lived and worked in San Francisco for 8 years. Carole and her husband learned to ski in Breckenridge in 1991, and they loved Summit County so much they moved here in 2013. By 2015 they were lucky enough to retire from paid employment and concentrate on skiing, hiking, and biking as well as walking their two Bernese Mountain dogs. Carole volunteers for the Frisco Animal Shelter, the Breckenridge Theater, the Summit Foundation, and is on the board of the Breckenridge Music Festival. She has volunteered at BRHC since its inception and enjoys sharing her love of horses with others. She finds it rewarding to help the BRHC program participants realize their potential while assisting in the rehabilitation and adoption of rescue horses.

Kristina “Rev” Revello, who currently works as an alpine coach for US Ski and Snowboard, joins the board after two seasons of volunteering with BRHC. While coaching aspiring athletes has been her professional life for nearly 15 years, she was born riding horses and spent much of her formative years training and riding horses in the mountains of western Idaho and Wyoming. Her foundation in equine knowledge began with 4-H at a young age as well as doing rodeo, trail rides, and backcountry pack trips with friends and family. In her spare time off the hill and away from the ranch she enjoys exploring beautiful Colorado on her mountain bike, hiking, and attempting to bake yummy treats at high elevation.

Britt is a Southern transplant but has called the mountains of Colorado home since 2008. Her love of horses stems from growing up on a farm in North Louisiana where her parents raised and rode cutting horses. After a long hiatus for college, travels, and to start a family, Britt has finally made her way back to horses thanks to the volunteer programs at the Blue River Horse Center. Britt is currently working on her masters degree in clinical counseling and will continue to incorporate equine-assisted therapy into her practice. She is a PATH International certified therapeutic riding instructor and Horse Boy method instructor. When Britt isn’t studying or hanging out with her BRHC-adopted horse, Dutch, she can be found skiing trees at Mary Jane or chasing her five-year old son down the blues at Keystone.

In 2016, after raising two sons, teaching middle school special education, managing a special education department, and owning a horse farm in Maryland, my husband and I retired and made the move to Colorado. After visiting Summit county in 1967, I fell in love with the area, and after completing college, I moved to Glenwood Springs to teach. Life and marriage moved me back to the east coast but I always vowed to return. My boys are living in Denver with our three grandchildren, so the decision to move was easy. Not so easy was leaving the horses, so here I am at Blue River Horse Center.

I became a board member for BRHC because of how my experience with this organization exceeded any expectations I ever had. I thought I was bringing out my children to model service and how to “give”, instead I GET much more than I could ever give. Although I thought I knew quite a bit about horses, my past several years at BRHC has been quite an education! It has been an incredible journey of unlearning, and new learning of a better way! John’s methods of gentling a horse versus breaking a horse have been truly illuminating and carry myriad metaphors for day-to-day life as well. I am intuitive with horses (And often people) and do not fear a horse that acts out due to previous mistreatment. I have a calming energy and often have success with horses that may be tougher (Angel, Legend, etc) My favorite students at school are often the kids that no teacher EVER has claimed as a favorite before.