board and staff list

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. Nikhil Aziz is the Executive Director of Grassroots International. Before joining Grassroots, Nikhil was Associate Director at Political Research Associates, where he led a team that studied the conservative movement and the political right in the United States. As a progressive, immigrant, gay man of color, Nikhil continues to speak, teach and write on human rights, international development and social change. He has served on the Boards of Africa Today Associates, Resist, Massachusetts Asians & Pacific Islanders for Health, and MASALA; and currently serves on the steering committee of the International Human Rights Funders Group and the Funders Network on Transforming the Global Economy.
Term ends 12/31/14
Member of the Grants Committee

3. 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
Planning Committee Chairperson, Member of the Communications and Executive Committees

4. 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 and his wife own and operate an organic hay farm in eastern Washington.
Term ends 12/31/10
Member of the Grants Committees

5. 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
Grants Committee Chairperson, Member of the Nominating, Planning and Executive Committees

6. Jim Enote, who is a Zuni tribal member, high altitude traditional farmer, and an interrupted artist, is the director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center at Zuni, New Mexico. He is a board member of the Grand Canyon Trust and a senior advisor for mountain cultures at the Mountain Institute. For over 30 years, he has tackled land and water conservation issues around the world and is committed to preserving and protecting his own and other Native cultures. He currently is involved in reviewing and correcting misidentified Zuni objects in several museum collections, creating a new generation of museum collection catalog that includes Zuni descriptions and comments, and facilitating cultural mapping at Zuni with Zuni artists and cultural advisors.
Term ends 12/31/15
Member of the Communications and Grants Committees

7. 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

8. 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 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, Communications Committee Chairperson, Member of the Grants and Executive Committees

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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 of the Sugar Bush Foundation, which is affiliated with the Ohio University Foundation.
Term ends 12/31/11
Vice-Chair of the Board, Member of the Grants, Planning 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 and Executive Committees

13. Martha Matsuoka is an Assistant Professor in the Urban and Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She teaches courses and conducts research in the fields of urban policy, organizing, community development, environmental justice, community-based research and regional economic development. Martha is a founding member of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network and the East Asia –U.S. – Puerto Rico Women’s Network Against Militarism, and she served on the board of the Center for Third World Organizing. Martha received her Ph.D. in Urban Planning from UCLA and she previously worked for the Urban Habitat Program, an environmental justice organization in the San Francisco Bay area.
Term ends 12/31/15
Member of the Grants and Planning Committees

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, Planning 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 and Nominating  Committees

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 Planning 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 in his fifth year as Mayor. 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. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.