Christina Medved is Director of Community Outreach at Roaring Fork Conservancy. She has waded into many rivers across the U.S., Peru and Costa Rica, in search of fish food called macroinvertebrates. In the last 25 years, Christina has taught thousands of people how to identify these aquatic organisms (fish food!). Christina was born and raised in Cleveland and did a lot of spin casting with her family on the many lakes and ponds that make up Northeast Ohio. (To this day she still believes her big brother is the best angler she knows!) She was used to catching bluegill and bass, but it was when she moved to Colorado that she started putting her aquatic insect knowledge to the test with fly fishing our world-class rivers. Her favorite fly to tie and fish with are her very own Wooly Buggers. As a certified teacher-trainer of the National Fishing in Schools Program, Christina has taught hundreds of youth and adults how to fly fish through RFC's fly fishing camps and clinics over the last 9 years.
Rick Lofaro is the Executive Director at Roaring Fork Conservancy. As a Colorado Native, he has been trout fishing for 50 years. At age 13, Rick learned to fly fish and tie flies, and he has been doing so ever since. He landed his first guiding job at age 19 on the Eagle River. After graduating from Colorado State University in 1993, he became a guide in Northwestern Montana and learned to row rafts and drift boats. He returned to the Roaring Fork Valley in 1997 and began working for RFC where he has been for the past 28 years. Rick has fished internationally in Mexico, Belize, the Bahamas, and Christmas Island (Kiritimati). Rick enjoys fishing with his dad and his daughters the most, sharing his passion of fly fishing across three generations. His favorite fly to tie and fish with is his own Western Coachman variant. As a certified teacher-trainer of the National Fishing in Schools Program, Rick has taught youth and adults how to fly fish through RFC's fly fishing camps and clinics over the last 9 years.
