Our current instructors are Mary Cerise, Katie Cooper, Jeff Cooper, Jeri Guzman, Merry Logan, Suzanne Nebeker, and Joyce Scott. Instructors in training: Angie Hurley. See below for more specifics.
More coming soon!
JERI GUZMAN
Jeri began working at Whitewater Therapeutic and Recreational Riding Association in 2010 and was certified as an instructor in April, 2011.
She graduated from Oregon State University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Rangeland Management. Her horse background includes
owning and training her own horses since childhood and working for various ranchers and cattle operations. Jeri also has experience
packing horses in the mountains, gathering wild horses in Eastern Oregon, has taken jumping and beginning dressage lessons and enjoys
volunteering in every capacity at Whitewater. Jeri’s current passion is riding freestyle with her horse partner, Dundee. Her other
interests include skiing, rafting and anything that she can do with her family.
MARY CERISE
Mary Cerise is a mother of two little girls, local rancher and director for local non-profit the Salmon Arts Council. Her lifelong love of horses has taken her in many different directions. She has driven teams with carriage, skidded logs (for low impact logging on BLM & Forest Service grounds) with draft horses, spent time on the race track rehabilitating retired horses and breezing horses, various levels of ranch work, trained and raced competively endurance horses, instruction and a lifelong passion for learning about horsemanship and the remarkable bond between horse and rider. She appeared in the September 2003 Smithsonian Magazine in an article with Native American Horseman Stan Addison. She has worked closely with Leslie Desmond and numerous other accredited clinicians and instructors. She is a graduate of the University of Montana Western where she earned a B.S. in Business Administration as well as a B.S. in Natural Horsemanship, being in the very first class of graduates for the program. She has training in entry level dressage, western and english. In 2010 she become a PATH certified instructor.
