Get to know the team behind Ned Fritz Legacy. The project arose from the Ned and Genie Fritz Texas Buckeye Trails, where Kristi Kerr Leonard leads the restoration team. As Amy researched the Buckeye Trails chapter for her book Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature Around Dallas-Fort Worth, and Kristi developed educational handouts for the trail, they realized that information on Ned was lapsing online and becoming hard to find. Sites with in-depth material were primarily appealing to researchers. His legacy was in danger of slipping away.
Both had long-standing ties to Genie and her daughter Eileen Fritz McKee. So with the family’s support [link to Genie letter], they sprang into action to begin creation of the Legacy website. They hope you’ll become as enthusiastic about the project, as the more funds that are raised, the more interesting the website can be with videos, Powerpoints, and other engaging storytelling methods. For a complete list of the tasks needed to create this website, please see What it Takes.
After spending three years as a back-to-the-land cucumber farmer in Northeast Texas following high school, Amy Martin returned to Dallas. Her first journalism foray for Over the Garden Fence won an award from Ned’s Texas Committee on Natural Resources. It inspired her to get a bachelor’s degree from Southern Methodist University and become a professional journalist. Amy has enjoyed a 45-year career writing for local and national publications, including Dallas Observer, Dallas Times Herald, Dallas Morning News, and D magazine, alternating between entertainment and environmental journalism. She is currently senior features writer for 
Kristi’s love of nature developed in childhood exploring Oak Cliff creeks and interactions with her brothers’ Boy Scout troops. After receiving an MBA from the American School of International Business, she began her career at The Richards Group advertising agency, developing marketing strategies across a wide variety of clients. While raising two children, she uses her business skills to manage estates of high-net-worth families. She is the Marketing Director for C3 Financial Services and Special Events Director of Ron Mill’s Wild Birds Unlimited store in East Dallas, tapping into skills honed in a nine-month certification program from SMU in Social Media and Digital Communications. Kristi spends all her spare time volunteering with North Texas Master Naturalists as Project Lead on the Ned & Genie Fritz Texas Buckeye Trail, the Piedmont Trail System and Ned Fritz Legacy.
A new media specialist for over 40 years, Scooter was among the first wave of computer artist-animators. He helped usher in the digital video age with Video Post & Transfer, was a founding member of the technologically innovative production company Dreamtime Imagineering, and taught New Media at The University of Texas at Arlington.
