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Board of Directors
Alan Schlenger, Board President
Sue Bowman, Treasurer
Marc Adato
Josephine Fleming
Jennifer Smith Grubb
Joanne Hale
Joe Jordan
Buddy Morris
Celia Scott
Alan Schlenger, Board President
Alan is a retired information technology executive from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Alan is very well positioned in the community to incorporate environmental sensibility into community decision making. He serves on the Public Works Commission for the City of Santa Cruz, the Energy Commission for Santa Cruz County, and on the Board of Directors for the Santa Cruz Community Farmers Market. He is also an Internet instructor for the Senior Computer Center of Santa Cruz. Alan holds a BA from City College of New York.
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Sue works as the Operations Manager at West Marine Products in Watsonville. She earned her B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley in Conservation and Natural Resources. Sue also has an elementary teaching credential, as well as a two year horticultural degree. Her well-rounded experience includes previously owning a large organic farm in Oregon.
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Marc holds a B.A. degree in Environmental Planning and Architectural History from the University of California at Santa Cruz. After a short stint building customs homes, Marc’s academic background was employed in the rebuilding of Santa Cruz after the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 as a Planner for the City of Santa Cruz. Marc worked for the City for over thirteen years, dedicating himself to working on downtown redevelopment and sustainable transportation issues. Marc joined Network Mortgage in 2005 to pursue a career change that brought his talents in planning, program management and collaboration with strategic partnerships to the field of real estate. Marc applied his shared solution philosophy to the affordable housing market and developed a new service that promoted shared property ownership through Tenancy in Common vesting techniques and fractional financing tools. Marc has lived in Santa Cruz since 1975, and married his wife Nan Ferris in 1987. He enjoys the benefits of living in proximity to many great cultural and natural resources and enjoys travel, music and kayaking the Monterey Bay.
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Jo is an Environmental Programs Coordinator for the County of Santa Cruz Public Works Department, where she coordinates incentive-based programs for local businesses to go above and beyond environmental regulations, and coordinates a federally mandated Industrial Wastewater Pretreatment Program. Previous to her public office, Jo worked in environmental consulting, serving Bay Area and local businesses in the technology and public sectors. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from the University of California, Riverside. Her career began in environmental research on pesticide mobility, land application of biosolids, and compost.
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Jennifer serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of Sustainable Silicon Valley. Sustainable Silicon Valley is a business, government, non-governmental partnership whose mission is to achieve environmental sustainability using a regional environmental management system (EMS) approach. The group¹s initial focus is to reduce energy usage from non-renewable sources by targeting a 20% reduction in regional carbon dioxide emissions. Jennifer participates nationally on the board of the Multi-State Working Group on Environmental Performance, and internationally with the United Nations Environmental Programme Best Practices Network. Locally, she serves as a board member for Ecology Action in Santa Cruz, California. Jennifer conducted the California Environmental Protection Agency EMS Project, for which she was given the Sustainability Leadership Award by the Pacific Industrial Business Association. Jennifer has a B.S.degree from the University of California at Davis.
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Joanne is retired from working 25 years overseas in Asia, Africa, South Pacific, and Central Asia in development assistance. Her last 20 years were with the U.S. Agency of International Development (USAID) as a Foreign Service Officer and Diplomat. She was the Director of USAID in Nepal ($50 million annual budget) for nearly 5 years and the Director of USAID in Uzbekistan ($70 million annual budget) for one year. Her technical background includes agriculture and water resource management with two Masters Degrees: Stanford University (M.Sc in Applied Economics); and UC Davis ( M.Sc in International Agricultural Development). Joanne currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors with Ecology Action as well as with Community Bridges.
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Joe is a space and atmospheric scientist at NASA Ames Research Center and the SETI Institute in Mountain View. He holds a B.A. Physics, Oberlin College and an M.S. Computer/Information Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz. Joe currently serves as a Public Works Commissioner for the City of Santa Cruz and formally as a science/math consultant on the Life Lab Science Program curriculum. He also serves as an astronomy/natural sciences teacher and hike leader for the California Academy of Sciences, the Santa Cruz City Museum, local schools, UCSC, and the Lyceum of Santa Clara Valley. Joe is an occasional contributor to the local radio series "Field Notes." Joe's passion is positioning Ecology Action for regional leadership in tapping the vast wealth inherent in our own clean, renewable energy resources (such as solar and wind) -- which he calls "sky power".
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Buddy is the Director of Environmental Health and Safety at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a BS in Biology and received his Masters in Public Health from the University of Hawaii. He has been certified in the Comprehensive Practice of Industrial Hygiene since 1985 and crusading for safety and the environment on University campuses for the past 25 years. Buddy thoroughly enjoys his work in higher education but has also worked on other interesting projects such as remediation of an Agent Orange dumpsite on the island of Kauai, and fuel farm asbestos abatement on Midway Island. He spends hobby time self-educating about computers and exercising.
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Ms. Scott graduated from Oberlin College, Ohio with a B.A. in government, and received her M.Sc. in Political Theory from the London School of Economics a few years later. She also holds a Masters Degree in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since receiving her Juris Doctor from Santa Clara School of Law, Ms. Scott has specialized in land use and environmental law. Celia has over three decades of experience working with community based organizations and government within the Santa Cruz community. During this time she was employed by; the California Coastal Commission, the Sierra Club, the California Court of Appeals in Santa Clara, and the County of Santa Cruz. In addition, she has served the community through membership on numerous committees, Boards, and elected offices, including the Santa Cruz City Council, the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District, the Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District, the Affirmative Action Task Force, and the Santa Cruz Citizens Committee for the homeless.
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