Meet our Board of Directors

  • Elizabeth Baker

    BOARD CHAIR and SECRETARY

    Chorister, San Francisco Opera

    Berkeley, CA

  • Bernard Shanks

    TREASURER

    Former Director, Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife

    Orcas Island, WA

  • Yvon Chouinard

    Yvon Chouinard

    BOARD MEMBER

    Founder, Patagonia, Inc., Chouinard Equipment Ltd., and Great Pacific Iron Works.

    Ventura, CA

  • Ron Lovitt

    Ron Lovitt

    BOARD MEMBER

    Attorney (ret.), Lovitt & Hannan, Inc.

    Mill Valley, CA

Our Former Board Members

  • Huey Johnson

    Huey Johnson


    Founder and former President of Resource Renewal Institute; Former Secretary for Natural Resources, State of California; Founder and former President, The Trust for Public Land; Former Western Regional Director, The Nature Conservancy

  • Bill Bryan

    Bill Bryan


    President, One Montana;
    Co-Founder, Off the Beaten Path

  • Annette Gellert

    Annette Gellert


    Trustee, The Fred Gellert Family Foundation

  • Alfred Heller


    Co-Founder, California Tomorrow

  • Sylvia McLaughlin

    Sylvia McLaughlin


    Co-Founder, Save the Bay

  • Marion Rockefeller Weber

    Marion Rockefeller Weber


    Founder, Flow Fund, and Founder/Director, Arts and Healing Network