Board of Directors

Pesticide Action Network North America’s Board of Directors include:

Judy Hatcher

Independent Consultant

Since 1981, Judy has worked as a grantmaker, a program manager, a consultant and a trainer for social justice groups all over the country. Previous employers include Amnesty International USA, the Funding Exchange, the Crossroads Fund, the Community Resource Exchange and the Center for Community Change. She was a consultant with the Grantsmanship Center and the Women of Color Fundraising Institute, among other organizations. Most recently, Judy served as Director of Programs, then Executive Director, of the Environmental Support Center, which helped build the capacity of environmental justice and advocacy organizations around the country through grants and other resources. Judy also serves on the boards of directors of the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.

Polly Hoppin

University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Sustainable Production

Polly has East Coast roots, growing up in Massachusetts, going to college in New Jersey, attending graduate school in Maryland (Ph.D. in health policy and management and environmental health sciences), and living and working both in Washington D.C. and Boston.  She has also spent substantial time in Latin America, in particular Nicaragua, Guatemala and Ecuador. Polly has worked in public policy as an environmental advocate for Clean Water Action and World Wildlife Fund, then serving as senior staff to the Science Advisor at the Department of Health and Human Services during the Clinton Administration, and subsequently playing a leadership role in children’s environmental health policy on behalf of HHS and EPA in New England. She has designed and implemented programs for NGOs and government aimed at reducing the use of chemicals that pose risks to human health. Her favorite work combines influencing public policy with designing and implementing programs, and she gets to do both in her current role as Research Professor and Program Director at the University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Sustainable Production. There, Polly has combined policy research and analysis with leadership of initiatives that seek fundamental reform in public and private sector approaches to mitigating environmental health problems, with a particular focus on asthma. Polly has held leadership positions with the Environment Section of the American Public Health Association and the Massachusetts Public Health Association. She was a founding Board Member of Protected Harvest, and currently serves on the Board of the national Clean Water Fund.

Ana Duncan Pardo

Toxic Free North Carolina

Ana is the Communications Coordinator for Toxic Free North Carolina, a statewide non-profit organization fighting pesticide pollution.  At Toxic Free NC, she serves as the resident Spanish speaker, media flack, in-house editor and farm worker organizer.  Ana spent most of her early life in rural North Carolina, with a brief stint in Montana.  She graduated from NC State University in 2005 with a B.S. in Botany.  Before joining Toxic Free NC’s staff, Ana worked for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) in the Ohio and North Carolina offices.  In her down time, Ana chairs the Raleigh Citizens’ Advisory Council, and works as a community organizer on issues of environmental sustainability and immigrants’ rights.

Lucia Sayre

Physicians for Social Responsibility

Lucia is Co-Director of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, coordinating all aspects of the chapter’s environmental health programs focused on clinical education and advocacy, pediatric and reproductive environmental health, a healthy foods in hospitals campaign, and climate change. Prior to SF PSR, Lucia worked for 15 years in community and program development and organizing in the U.S., Mexico and South America. Her experience includes fieldwork and curriculum development for the Peace Corps; rural economic development with Mayo communities in Sonora, Mexico; educational outreach for the Field Museum in Chicago; and food security projects on the Mexico/U.S. border with Tucson Audubon Society and the University of Arizona.

Ted Schettler

Science and Environmental Health Network

Ted Schettler, MD, MPH, is Science Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network (www.sehn.org).  He also serves as Science Director of the Collaborative on Health and Environment (www.healthandenvironment.org) and science advisor to Health Care Without Harm (www.noharm.org).  He has a medical degree from Case Western Reserve University and a masters in public health from Harvard University. Dr. Schettler is co-author of Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment; In Harm’s Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development; and Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging. He has published a number of articles on related topics in peer-reviewed journals and has served on advisory committees of the U.S. EPA and National Academy of Sciences. He practiced medicine primarily in New England for many years.

Chloe Schwabe

National Council of Churches

As Program Manager of the National Council of Churches’ Environmental Health Initiative, Chloe coordinates a multi-state campaign to educate people of faith about toxic chemicals and seeks policy solutions that protect people and the environment. Previously she worked to improve environmental justice and human rights in Latin America. Chloe also taught bilingual environmental education for two years as an Americorps volunteer. In her free time, she serves on the board of the U.S. Office on Colombia and co-chairs the Colombia Human Rights Committee. She also performs with a theater group in Washington, D.C. Chloe received her MA in Latin American Studies at the University of Texas and bachelors degrees in Environmental Studies and Hispanic Studies at Mills College in California.

Jennifer Sokolove

Compton Foundation

Jennifer is the Program Officer for the Environment and the Family Advisory Board at the Compton Foundation. Her environment portfolio covers grantmaking in the fields of freshwater, climate change, and community-based conservation in the western United States. She also manages a family grants program in sustainable food systems, youth, the arts, and spirituality. Jen has been working on sustainability issues for the past decade, with a focus on natural resource-based economies and collaborative decision-making. Prior to joining Compton, Jen worked on a variety of community-led projects in California, Montana, and the Pacific Northwest. She conducted post-doctoral research on sustainable food systems in northern California, and completed her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science,Policy and Management. She received her BA from Stanford University in Human Biology (concentration in environmental policy) and English in 1994. She also serves on the board of the Switzer Foundation.

Guy Williams

G.O. Williams & Associates

Guy is principal and founder of G.O. Williams & Associates and is well known nationally for his work as a developer of community programming, leader in urban redevelopment and remediation projects, and as an advocate for environmental justice and sustainability. Recent clients include Michigan State University, Kresge Foundation, Gleaners Community Food Bank and Hantz Farms Detroit. Guy’s twenty years of leadership in business, government, nonprofits and community interests includes past roles as president of S.E. Michigan Sustainable Business Forum and Legacy Land Conservancy, program manager of Fair Food Foundation, and trustee of Great Lakes Fishery Trust. He is currently a member of the Michigan Green Chemistry Roundtable, the External Advisory Committee of the University of Michigan’s Center for Sustainable Systems, and the board of Rails To Trails Conservancy. Guy is a graduate of Bucknell University.