Board of Directors

Director

Alisa Graham made her home in Utah 1993 to attend Utah State University and enjoy the state’s great outdoors. For over the last 25 years, Alisa has worked with people with cognitive disabilities through DSPD provider services, working her way from a staff member to a Regional Program Manager. She also has spent several years volunteering with Special Olympics, 10 of which she was a Regional Program Coordinator with SOUT.  Her passion for people, the outdoors, and volunteer work has given her many diverse and rewarding experiences. She has been a part of Heart of America mission and has delivered several thousand educational kits for children on the Navajo Reservation during the pandemic, as well as supplies and food. She has also been involved with a team of incredible people who install solar panels, bring light to homes of the Navajo. Alisa is also an assistant soccer coach with RSL Unified Soccer Team, promoting inclusion at all levels of competition through the unified mission.

Alisa has spent years exploring Utah’s desert and mountain ranges. It was not until January 2020, when the Onaqui wild horses and Alisa’s path crossed on the Onaqui HMA. This was the beginning of learning and understanding what was happening to our wild horse in the United States and to Utah’s mustangs.  Over the last two years, Alisa has spent time out in the west desert, observing and photographing the Onaqui wild horses. A passion, a deep respect, and a need to understand more about mustangs and how they are managed became a focus for both Alisa and her wife, Paula. They have adopted two beautiful Onaqui mares, Kona and Emse’ and gelding Johnny Cash who was rescued from an Oklahoma Kill Pen 2 years after the '21 Onaqui roundup. They continue to volunteer, learn, and work for the mustangs in Utah and Nevada.