Our Team
Our small cohesive team, decades of experience, and extensive partner network enables efficiency and effectiveness.
Scott Linnenburger, MEM
PRINCIPAL
Scott Linnenburger has 25 years of experience in recreation/trail development, conservation planning, and environmental restoration projects. His successful management of more than 200 projects in the federal, state, local, and private sectors demonstrates a keen ability to assist clients in developing projects that fulfill their mission, protect natural resources, and enhance community sustainability. Kay-Linn Enterprises is a member of the Professional Trailbuilders Association and Linnenburger has held Board of Directors positions with American Trails, Professional Trailbuilders Association, and the Boulder Mountain Bike Alliance.
He has led more than 100 trail building best practices seminars for volunteer groups and land managers around the country and assisted dozens of organizations in strategic planning around recreation/conservation stewardship.
Past Professional Experience: Scott worked in the engineering/environmental services sector managing permitting and environmental restoration projects prior to being hired by the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA). While at IMBA, Scott developed the Trail Solutions and Ride Center programs and managed the organization’s field-based education and trail development staff. Scott also was a contributor to the IMBA Trail Solutions and Managing Mountain Biking books and the US Forest Service’s Trail Construction and Maintenance Notebook.
Education: Masters of Environmental Management, Duke University’s Nicholas School, Focus on wetland/stream ecology, restoration, and habitat planning. Bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Secondary Education from Eckerd College.
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Aaryn Kay has worked with more than one hundred non-profits in almost every U.S. state and Canadian province with specialities in development, communications, strategy and assessment over the last 25 years.
Aaryn is also currently the Executive Director of the Professional TrailBuilders Association bringing her non-profit management skill set and two decades of experience in the trail industry to the trail industry’s trade association. In this role, she has tapped her background in education in the collaborative work developing the Trail Skills Project and the Trail Competency Framework.
Past Professional Experience: Prior to founding Kay-Linn in 2009, Aaryn was a freelance grants specialist, coordinated trailbuilding and advocacy events, co-taught 150 weekend long trailbuilding seminars for volunteers and land managers in 32 states at IMBA, instructed a graduate-level environmental education course at Duke University, and directed Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment’s Community Outreach.
Education: Masters of Environmental Management, Nicholas School of Environment at Duke University, Focus on conservation biology and environmental education. Masters of Arts in Teaching, Duke University, High School Science Education. B.S. in Biology, Bucknell University, Magna Cum Laude
Aaryn Kay, MEM/MAT
PRINCIPAL
Working on Trails since 2002
After finishing graduate school at Duke University and working a few years, Aaryn and Scott joined the Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew in 2002. They spent 2 years living out of a brightly colored Subaru with their dog. During those 2 years, they spent every week at a different trail system, working with volunteers and land managers. The passion of every group that they worked with - passion for trails and community - was contagious and is still what inspires Aaryn and Scott more than twenty years later.