1. Dorothy Anderson is a great granddaughter of Jessie Smith Noyes.  She has worked in publishing for more than 25 years and runs an editorial services firm in Connecticut. 
Term ends 12/31/2011
Nominating Committee Chairperson, Member of the Audit and Executive Committees

2. George Beardsley, a family member, has spent over 25 years in various technical and business leadership positions, working with government, nonprofit organizations and businesses. He lives in northern California.
Term ends 12/31/10
Evaluation Committee Co-Chair, Member of the Communications, Grants and Executive Committees

3. Jerry Beardsley, a family member, is a former Peace Corps Volunteer. He lived in Puerto Rico, Panama and Ecuador building schools and aiding various organizations to sustain adult education and agricultural programs in rural areas. He’s worked on fishing boats, deep sea vessels and Alaskan canneries. Jerry lives with his wife in Seattle and they own and operate an organic hay farm in eastern Washington.
Term ends 12/31/10
Member of the Evaluation and Grants Committees

4. Betty Emarita is an ideation and strategic change consultant.  Her company, Development and Training Resources, a firm she established in 1986, works with nonprofit institutions, foundations, educational institutions, government agencies and businesses to help them absorb new information, manage change, and move concepts to action.  Betty helps clients attain targeted outcomes in a changing economic environment with increasingly diverse populations. She and her associates work with organizations to design and launch bold initiatives, build inclusive environments, design curricula, conduct evaluations and assessments, and develop and implement strategic plans.  She infuses local action with global thinking in her national and international work.  A native of North Carolina, Betty lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Term ends 12/31/12
Member of the Nominating, Evaluation and Grants Committees

5. Ann Fritz is a great granddaughter of Jessie Smith Noyes. She is a registered nurse who has worked in the health field for over 20 years. Presently employed as a visiting nurse, she has also worked in hospitals and as a breastfeeding counselor, positively impacting maternal and child health. As a lifelong vegetarian, she has been active in supporting environmental practices that are congruent with the Foundation’s commitments. Ann resides in Providence, RI with her teenage son, Samuel.
Term ends 12/31/2011
Member of the Communications and Nominating Committees

6. Jenifer Getz is a great–granddaughter of Charles F. Noyes and daughter of Ann Wiener, a board member. Jenifer has worked in the Aviation field for the last 17 years as a flight school owner. She is currently an Instructor Pilot for Eclipse Aviation, a jet manufacturer. She has among others, a degree in fine arts with an emphasis in textile design. Jenifer has been active politically and is an advocate of recycling and environmental issues. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Term ends 12/31/12
Secretary, Member of the Communications, Grants and Executive Committees

7. Betty Hung is Special Counsel at Inner City Law Center and Senior Attorney at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, advocating for low-wage workers' rights.  A co-founder of the Los Angeles Taxi Workers Alliance, Betty is helping to lead a campaign against corporate corruption and sweatshop conditions in the city’s taxi industry. She also played a key role in the re-authorization of a California state law to improve working conditions in the car wash industry. As an Echoing Green fellow at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, she created a leadership program for high school youth in the Chinatown area who are the children of garment workers and also was part of the legal team that litigated the groundbreaking El Monte Thai and Latino garment worker case that set national precedent in establishing manufacturer and retailer accountability for the dismal working conditions of garment workers. While in private practice at an international law firm, Betty initiated several diversity efforts in the areas of race, gender, and sexual orientation.  Betty also was the Southern California Regional Director/Organizer for Asians and Pacific Islanders for Reproductive Health, a former Noyes grantee.  Betty serves on the board of Worksafe, and is a former board member of the Liberty Hill Foundation's Fund for a New Los Angeles and the Sexual Assault Crisis Agency. 
Term ends 12/31/2009
Grants Committee Chairperson, Member of the Audit and Executive Committees

8. Nick Jacangelo is a managing partner of McGrath, Doyle & Phair, CPA, which has been the Foundation’s accounting firm since its beginning.  Nick’s firm does extensive work in the not-for-profit field, and he is a board member of several private foundations. He is a tenured member of the Noyes Board, having served since 1982. Nick lives in New Jersey.
Tenured
Treasurer, Member of the Finance and Executive Committees

9. Bruce M. Kahn, Ph.D., is Director and Senior Investment Analyst at Deutsche Asset Management, where he advises portfolio managers and product developers on the thematic trends of climate change in both traditional and alternative investments.   Previously Bruce was a sustainability consultant with Cameron-Cole, an engineering firm in Boulder, CO. There he worked with Fortune 500 companies on strategies to improve their financial and environmental performance and reporting.  Bruce received his doctorate in Environmental Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was awarded a J. William Fulbright Scholarship and a National Science Foundation Fellowship. A former Peace Corps Volunteer who served in the Republic of Cameroon, Bruce lives in Brooklyn.
Term ends 12/31/13
Member of the Finance and Grants Committees

10. Carol Kuhre is an organizational development and fund raising consultant and a volunteer with grass-roots groups in Appalachia, particularly those dealing with global climate change. She served for fifteen years as executive director of Rural Action, a community-based organization working on sustainable development in the Appalachian counties of Ohio and former Noyes grantee. She is Rural Action’s Executive Director Emerita. Previously, she served as co-director of United Campus Ministry at Ohio University and in campus ministry at Penn State University and Ohio University. Carol is a trained fiber artists and owner of Cabin-Craft Handweavings. She is president of the Athens Foundation and vice-president the Sugar Bush Foundation, which is affiliated with the Ohio University Foundation.
Term ends 12/31/11
Vic-Chair of the Board, Co-Chair of the Evaluation Committee, Member of the Grants and Executive Committees

11. Pamela Kingfisher, an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is an organizational development consultant providing services to non-profits, community based organizations and foundations. In her national practice, she specializes in visual and consensus facilitation, diagnosis & intervention, strategic planning, and governance training.

Her background includes owning/operating family businesses and providing 14 years administrative and operational support for the Indian Health Service in Oklahoma. She served as Executive Director of the Indigenous Women’s Network in Austin, TX, and volunteered for many years as a community organizer and board chair for Native Americans for a Clean Environment- both former Noyes grantees.

Pamela has been awarded the Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa Award for Community Activism (2003) and the U.S. Surgeon General’s Award for Outstanding Performance (1990). She also served five years on the U.S. EPA’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council. In her spare time, she volunteers on the board of directors for Selu Circle in Oklahoma; grows organic food and creates art in Austin, Texas. 
Term ends 12/31/10
Chair of Communications Committee, Member of the Grants, Nominating and Executive Committees

12. Ben Lovell, a resident of Maine, is a vice-president with Robert Brooke Zevin Associates in Boston. He has been managing socially responsible investments since 1985 and holds the Chartered Financial Analysts designation. He has been involved with a number of nonprofits, including Maine Businesses for Social Responsibility, Maine Initiatives Fund, the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League, and the endowment committee of York Hospital.
Term ends 12/31/12
Chair of the Finance Committee, Member of the Audit, Communications and Executive Committees

13. LaDonna Redmond began working on sustainable food security issues after her infant son Wade was diagnosed with asthma induced by food allergies. Wade's diet required foods that avoided all dairy products, eggs, peanuts and shell fish. La Donna searched for organic food products to avoid allergens and food that contained GMO's and pesticides. However, organic foods were hard to come by in her Chicago neighborhood. To broaden consumer choice and address food security concerns, she created the Institute for Community Resource Development and the Chicago Food Systems Collaborative. LaDonna is working to develop a local grocery store, Good Food Market.  La Donna is also involved in the Green Jobs movement with Green For All.   She is developing a green business that monetizes sustainable food systems projects to support the development of local food systems. La Donna, who lives outside Chicago, is a board member of Food First. She is also a 2003 Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellow and A Green For All Fellow. Prior to being a food activist, LaDonna worked in various fields, including community organizing, women's reproductive health and substance abuse. 
Term ends 12/31/11
Member of the Finance, Evaluation and Grants Committee

14. Belvie Rooks is a writer, educator and producer whose work weaves the worlds of spirituality, feminism, ecology and social justice with a passion for engaged dialogue as way of bridging various divides. She is the creator of, Hey Listen Up: Race, Cosmology and The Environment, a ground -breaking multi-media based, urban eco-literacy project and curriculum, supported by The Earth Island Institute. Her published works have appeared in a number of books, publications and anthologies. Belvie is one of the producers of a feature film about the relationship between Paul Robeson and Albert Einstein during the McCarthy era, a work in development, by Louverture Films, one of Danny Glover's production companies. She is a former board member of Bioneers, The Urban Habitat Program, and the Positive Futures Network/Yes Magazine. Currently she is Chair of the Board of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and a board member of the Institute for Noetic Sciences. She lives in California.
Term ends 12/31/12
Member of the Communication and Grants Committees

15. Chitra Staley, a resident of Massachusetts, has worked in the investment field for the past 25 years and prior to that she was an environmental biologist working in wetlands protection. After many years as a money manager, Chitra is now with The Program Works, assisting individuals and families in managing their wealth and providing clients with guidance in philanthropy. Beyond her role in investments, Chitra is interested in women's rights and providing opportunities for children from deprived backgrounds. She is the president of AASRA, an organization based in Boston, which helps women from South Asian countries to achieve economic self-sufficiency. Chitra is also on the board of the Boston Estate Planning Council. 
Term ends 12/31/10
Chairperson of the Board, Member of the Finance Committee

16. Ann Wiener is a granddaughter of Charles F. Noyes. She has been connected to the Foundation since childhood and remembers discussing scholarship applications with her mother and father.  Ann has been in education most of her life and is a retired principal of a small, diverse public New York City middle school which she founded. She now is a coach/facilitator at the New York City Leadership Academy. A New York City resident, Ann joined the Noyes Board in 1962 and is a tenured member.
Tenured
Member of the Audit, Evaluation and Nominating Committees

1. Millie Buchanan, Program Officer for Toxics and Environmental Justice
Millie came to the Noyes Foundation in August 1994 after directing a statewide non-profit environmental organization, the Clean Water Fund of North Carolina, a former Noyes grantee. She was a member of the Management Board of the Environmental Grantmakers Association for three years, serving as chair in 1998.  Before entering the non-profit world, Millie was city editor for an eastern North Carolina daily newspaper and had lived all her life in the South. After nine years as a Manhattan resident, she moved back to her Asheville, NC, mountain home in late 2002, where she continues to work for the Foundation.

2. Pat Carozzo, Administrative Assistant
Pat works part time to provide support for the program staff and president on Board books, Noyes News, the Diversifying Leadership for Sustainable Food Policy initiative, and logistics for Board meetings, in addition to other work necessary for the functioning of the Foundation. She also acts as a liaison for those seeking to use the Foundation's conference room.   It is her interest in a fairly and equitably shared, healthy world that keeps her working at the Foundation.  Pat lives in Woodside, NY.

3. Victor De Luca, President
Vic joined the Foundation in 1991 as a program officer and became its president in 2000. A former VISTA Volunteer, Vic spent 15 years as director of the Ironbound Community Corporation, a Newark community-based organization. He is a board member of the Funders Network for Population, Reproductive Health and Rights and the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers, a member of the Council on Foundation’s Committee on Family Philanthropy, and an adviser to the Diversity in Philanthropy Project. Vic is serving his fourth three-year term on the Maplewood Township Committee (NJ), currently serving as Mayor, a position he also held from 2001 through 2003. Vic is board member of the Springfield Avenue Partnership, a local economic development organization, and a founding and current board member of New Jersey Citizen Action.

4. Edna Iriarte, Program Officer for New York City Grantmaking
Prior to joining the Noyes Foundation in 2007, Edna provided administrative and programmatic support to several social justice initiatives. She conducted research that led to the creation of La Fuente’s New York Civic Participation Project and the Long Island Civic Participation Project, two partnerships between labor and community-based organizations to promote immigrant and workers rights.

Edna’s philanthropic experience began in 1994 as a Women and Philanthropy intern with the Norman Foundation. At the New World Foundation, she helped to launch the Phoenix Fund for Workers and Communities, which supports organizing for economic justice and human rights in the U.S. and Mexico. In addition, she helped carve out an apprenticeship program for succeeding New World program associates. As an independent consultant, she partnered with the Racial Justice Collaborative Fund and the Ottinger Foundation at Public Interest Projects.  Edna is also a part-time program officer with the New York Foundation and holds a masters in urban planning from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.

5. Wilma Montañez, Program Officer for Reproductive Rights Since 1974, Wilma has been a reproductive health and rights advocate, community organizer, educator, doula and administrator in Rhode Island, New York City and California. She joined the Foundation in 1996 after serving as Executive Director of the Latina Roundtable on Health and Reproductive Rights, a former Noyes grantee. Wilma has served on the boards of the Women’s Funding Network, Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights, and Women and Philanthropy.

6. Margaret Segall, Director of Administration Margaret is a long-time resident of Greenwich Village. She serves on the Board of Directors of Citizen Action of New York City, working on state and national electoral and issue campaigns, and is a graduate of the Camp Wellstone training for citizen activists. Since 2001, she has studied and practiced Zen with Bonnie Myotai Treace of Hermitage Heart in Cold Spring, NY. In spring and fall, she can often be found in the wilds of Central Park enjoying the bird life.

7. Kolu Zigbi, Program Officer for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Kolu joined the Foundation in 2000 and has been an active member of the Sustainable Agriculture and Food System Funders group, co-chairing its steering committee in 2005 and 2006. She currently serves on the Increasing Diversity in Philanthropy Committee of the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers and the Retreat Planning Committee of the Environmental Grantmakers Association.

Her prior experience includes serving as a group therapist, coordinating peer-education programs for community organizers, advocating for affordable housing and designing training and grants programs for small non-profits. She also did a year-long fellowship at Columbia University through the Charles H. Revson Fellows Program on the Future of New York.

Kolu completed coursework for a Masters degree in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University and has an undergraduate degree in Rural Development Studies with a focus on West Africa from Stanford University. As much as her formal education and work experience, Kolu is influenced by her grandfather, Leh Leh Crawford, an upland rice farmer and traditional town chief who organized clan members to take control over the local development process rather than allow outside investors to dictate land use decisions. Kolu grew up in the Bronx, and now resides in Central Harlem with her family.

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