Pesticide Action Network North America's Board of Directors include:
JD Doliner
Opus 4
JD Doliner is a principal of Opus 4, Arlington, Virginia, consulting with environmental businesses. She has been active in promoting socially responsible investment for more than 19 years. Before co-founding Opus 4 in 2002, JD was Senior Vice President at Environmental Enterprises Assistance Fund (EEAF) and she also managed a portfolio of direct investments for Solar Development Group, building an investment team for Latin America and Asia. During her tenure at EEAF, JD designed the first environmental venture capital funds for Latin America, and led efforts to engage $70 million in investments and $25 million in grants for four funds and several smaller programs. Before joining EEAF in 1993, JD was Director of Communications for Temple University Health Sciences Center. JD also serves on the boards of IBENS (Viabilizando negócios éticos e sustentáveis, Brasil), Fiber Futures and Oley Institute.
Martha Guzman
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation
Martha is Legislative Advocate for the CRLAF in Sacramento, focusing on farmworker health and safety issues, environmental justice and education justice, including environmental hazards of heat-related illness and pesticide exposure. In 2003, she served as the Legislative Coordinator for the United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO, covering a range of labor and environmental issues. She is currently a member of the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water, and is a council member of the Roots of Change Fund working towards the transition to a healthier food system in California, and a board member of Ag Innovations Network and Community to Community Development. She is a gubernatorial-appointed member to the California Water Commission and a member of the California Agricultural Leadership Program.
Judy Hatcher
Environmental Support Center
Judy is Interim Co-Director for the Environmental Support Center in Washington, D.C. She has nearly 25 years of experience as a grantmaker, program manager, consultant and trainer for social justice organizations all over the country. Before joining Environmental Support Center, she worked for Amnesty International, the Funding Exchange, the Community Resource Exchange and the Center for Community Change. In addition to serving on PANNA’s board, Judy is on the boards of Home Care Partners, Changemakers, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, the Institute for Public Accuracy, and the Black Philanthropic Alliance.
Ellen B. Kennedy
Calvert Group
Ellen is a social investment research analyst with the Calvert Group in Bethesda, Maryland, a socially and environmentally responsible investment firm. She joined Calvert in 2000 where she specializes in consumer safety, health and other product-related issues, as well as animal welfare and toxics. She focuses in particular on the food and agriculture industries. She has over ten years experience in environmental research and advocacy, and has also worked on international development, gender, and agricultural projects. She previously worked for Winrock International and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. Ellen holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies and International Development from the University of California, Berkeley.
María Elena Martínez-Torres, Ph.D.
Desarrollo Alternativo and International Network of Women's Funds
María Elena is the Director of Desarrollo Alternativo, a Mexican non-profit working on alternatives to corporate globalization for rural areas, and Coordinator of the International Network of Women's Funds. An anti-globalization activist, social science researcher and lecturer, María Elena, holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, has also been a visiting scholar at the CIESAS and PROIMMSE social science research institutes in Chiapas, Mexico. She was formerly the Elenaxecutive Director of CorpWatch and was Mexico Program Coordinator at Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy.
Nikiko Masumoto
Masumoto Family Farm
Nikiko grew up on an 80-acre farm in Del Rey in California’s Central Valley and is committed to building a foundation for the next generation of farmers. She holds a B.A. in Gender and Women’s studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the daughter of David Mas Masumoto—a third generation farmer of organic peaches, grapes and nectarines, acclaimed author, newspaper columnist, and sustainable farming advocate. Nikiko is serving as apprentice in preparation for inheriting the farm and business. She is also a Taiko Japanese drummer, writer and poet and runs Central Valley school youth leadership programs that focus on issues of self esteem, sexism, body image, racism and language barriers.
Clara Nicholls, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley & Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia)
Clara is originally from Medellin, Colombia, and divides her time between teaching and research in Berkeley — where she is a professor with the Center for Latin American Studies; Colombia where she is an adjunct professor with Universidad de Antioquia; and travel throughout Latin American to work with NGOs. An entomologist (UC Davis) specializing in biological control, Clara’s research and advocacy focuses on participatory integrated pest management (IPM) strategies for small farmers in Latin America and agroecological strategies for conversion of conventional agricultural systems to low-input organic management. With Miguel Altieri, she coordinates the Latin American Consortium on Agroecology and Sustainable Development (CLADES) based in Chile.
Michael Picker
Lincoln Crow
Michael is a co-founder of Lincoln Crow, a strategic communications firm in Sacramento. He has 30 years of experience in policy development, government, grassroots policy campaigns, coalition building, community organizing, nonprofit management and press relations. Before founding Lincoln Crow, Michael served as Chief of Staff to Sacramento Mayor Joe Serna, Jr., as Deputy Treasurer of California, and Deputy Assistant to the Governor for Toxic Substances Control. He helped found the Toxics Coordinating Project, a coalition of environmental, farm, labor and neighborhood groups that framed local and statewide policy on toxic hazards in California. He was West Coast Director of the National Toxics Campaign, supervising coalition building and organizing in six Western states. His political experience includes serving on the Steering Committee for environmental initiatives Prop 65 (1986) and Big Green/Prop 128 (1988). A former lecturer at UCLA's Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning and instructor at Occidental College's Urban and Environmental Policies Institute, Michael holds an MBA from the University of California, Davis.
Amy C. Shannon
Enlaces America
Amy is Associate Director of Enlaces America, a program of Chicago-based Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights. Enlaces America seeks to maximize the potential for transnational leadership and regional policy advocacy within Latino immigrant communities in the United States. In addition to her work with Enlaces, Amy has worked since 1997 as a non-profit management consultant, supporting foundations and NGOs with program design and project evaluation. Prior to that, she was a program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation with responsibilities for grantmaking and strategy on biodiversity conservation in Latin America and sustainable development policy. She also serves on the board of Asociación Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente. She holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where she conducted research on rural financial systems, sustainable enterprise, and social marketing.
Jennifer Sokolove
Compton Foundation
Jennifer is program officer for the environment and the Family Advisory Board at the Compton Foundation, Menlo Park, California. Jen is currently working to implement grant programs in the fields of fresh water, climate change, and community-based conservation in the western U.S. She also manages a small grants program in healthy food and farming, the arts, spirituality, children and youth. She 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.