Leadership & Board of Directors

Isabelle Arnold founded and directs RLEDC’s programs across workforce development, entrepreneurship, disaster-grant compliance, and rural economic development. She brings more than twenty years of catastrophe claims and FEMA operations experience to the organization, including standing up the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Claims Office.

She leads RLEDC’s grant strategy, its Route 66 Economic Opportunity Initiative, and the RecoveryReady™ disaster compliance program, and represents the organization before municipal and county bodies across the seven-county service region.

Sheryl Gambardella serves as a Director of RLEDC and as Secretary of the Board of Directors. In that capacity she maintains the organization’s corporate records, minutes, and governance documentation, and supports RLEDC’s program work across Eastern New Mexico.

Her dual role connects day-to-day program delivery with the board’s oversight responsibilities — a structure that keeps documentation current for the grant and compliance work that RLEDC’s funders require.