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 Audit and Executive Committees

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 – Vice-chair of Evaluation Committee, Member of Finance and Grants Committees

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 – Secretary, ­ Member Evaluation, Grants and Executive Committees

Betty Emarita is a 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 Communications, Evaluation and Grants Committees

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 – Member Communications, Finance and Grants Committees

Betty Hung is the Directing Attorney, Employment Unit of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, where she combines law and organizing to fight for low-wage workers’ rights. A founding member of the Los Angeles Taxi Workers Alliance, Betty is helping to lead a campaign against corporate corruption and sweatshop conditions in city’s taxi industry. She also played a key role in the re-authorization of a California law to improve working conditions in the car wash industry. Betty serves on the boards of WorkSafe and the Liberty Hill Foundation's Fund for a New Los Angeles. She was an Echoing Green Fellow at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center. Betty also was the Southern California Regional Director/Organizer for Asians and Pacific Islanders for Reproductive Health, a former Noyes grantee.
Term ends 12/31/2009 – Grants Committee Chairperson, Member of Executive Committee

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 Finance and Executive Committees

Bruce M. Kahn, Ph.D., is an Investment Management Consultant with Smith Barney, where he advises clients on socially responsible investing. 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 Finance and Grants Committees

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 – Member Evaluation, Grants and Nominating Committees

Pamela Kingfisher was born and raised in the shadow and secrecy of the nuclear bomb era, becoming an activist at a young age by asking questions. She is a former board president and community organizer of Native Americans for a Clean Environment in Oklahoma and former Executive Director of the Indigenous Women’s Network, both former Noyes grantees. Pame was awarded the U.S. Surgeon Generals Award for Outstanding Performance in 1990 and the Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa Award for Community Activism in 2003. A resident of Minnesota, Pame works with the consulting firm, Larson Allen, and continues to assist American Indian women and their communities.
Term ends 12/31/10 – Secretary, Chair of Communications Committee, Member of Evaluation, Grants and Executive Committees

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 – Member Audit, Communications and Finance Committees

Leslie Lowe is Director of the Energy and Environment Program at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a Noyes grantee. An attorney in New York State for over 20 years, Leslie previously served as Executive Director of the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, a former Noyes grantee. She serves on the boards of the Social Investment Forum, Housing Works, Inc., and The Weeksville Society.
Term ends 12/31/08 – Board Chairperson, Chair of Evaluation Committee, Member of Nominating and Executive Committees

LaDonna Redmond began working on sustainable food security issues after her son Wade, at age seven, was diagnosed with asthma induced by food allergies. Wade’s diet required organic food products, which LaDonna found 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. Her current initiative is a grocery store, Good Food Market, which is scheduled to open in the fall of 2008. LaDonna, who lives outside Chicago, is a board member of Food First and serves on the Illinois Governor’s Advisory Council on Agriculture and the Chicago Public School Task Force to Improve Healthy Eating. She is also a 2003 Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Fellow. Prior to being a food activist, LaDonna worked in various fields, including women’s reproductive health and substance abuse.
Term ends 12/31/11 – Member Evaluation and Grants Committee

Belvie Rooks is a writer, educator and producer whose work weaves the worlds of spirituality, feminism, ecology, racial and environmental justice and a passion for dialogue. She is vice-president, special projects development, Carrie Productions, Danny Glover’s production company. Belvie also is executive producer of Watts Up! Demaria's Journey from Watts to the Frontiers of Consciousness. And she is the Producer/Host of ConverZations that Matter: Frontiers of Race, Cosmology, and Consciousness, which brings consciousness studies down to earth, making them real and relevant for everyday life. She lives in California.
Term ends 12/31/12 – Member Communication and Grants Committees

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. Other board memberships include the Boston Estate Planning Council. 
Term ends 12/31/10 – Board Vice-chairperson, Chair of Finance Committee, Member of, Nominating and Executive Committees

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 Audit, Evaluation and Nominating Committees

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.

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.

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 was director of the Ironbound Community Corporation, a Newark community-based organization. He is Treasurer of the Funders Network for Population, Reproductive Health and Rights, a board member of 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 third three-year term on the Maplewood Township Committee (NJ), currently serving as vice-mayor. From January 2001 through December 2003, he served as Maplewood’s Mayor. Vic also 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.

Edna Iriarte, Program Officer for New York City Grantmaking
Edna has been involved in social justice initiatives providing research, community organizing, organizational development, and administrative services. The daughter of working-class immigrants from Ecuador and Guatemala, she began her career working with progressive foundations that support grassroots organizing to strengthen and expand civil rights and promote the active civic participation of all people.

As part of her graduate degree program in urban planning, Edna conducted research to identify organizing opportunities to promote community and labor partnerships in New York City’s immigrant worker communities. Her study led to the formation of La Fuente/New York Civic Participation Project (NYCPP), a labor-community collaboration working at the policy and grassroots level for immigrant and worker rights. Edna’s most recent work with LaFuente included identifying ways to bring together labor unions, community based organizations, and advocacy groups on Long Island around a mutually beneficial immigrant rights agenda.

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.

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.

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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