Pesticide Action Network North America's Board of Directors include:
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.
Jonathan Harrison
Rubicon National Social Innovations
Jonathan is a social entrepreneur who has devoted his career to economic justice and building and running community-based enterprises. He is presently the Director at Rubicon National Social Innovations, a think/do tank building new models for social enterprise implementation and expansion. Previously, he led lending programs at MACED in Berea, Kentucky, a community development financial institution focused on lending to viable but unbankable businesses in Appalachia. Jonathan co-founded alt.Consulting, a social mission-driven consulting firm and was a fellow of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise in North Carolina. His big city experience includes marketing management at Carnegie Hall and teaching in Xi'an, China. He has an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
Judy Hatcher
Environmental Support Center
Judy is Executive Director of the Environmental Support Center, which helps build the capacity of environmental justice and advocacy organizations around the country through grants and other resources. 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. Judy also serves on the boards of directors of the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. She is a program committee member of the Twenty-First Century Foundation, and a member of the coordinating committee of the Environmental Capacity Builders Network.
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, 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.
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.
Shawna M. Larson-Carmen
Pacific Environment
Shawna is aligned with two Alaska Native groups. She is Ahtna Athabascan (Indian) from Chickaloon Village on her father’s side, and Supiaq (Aleut/Eskimo) from the village of Port Graham on her mother’s side. Shawna has established an international reputation because of her successful efforts to garner support for the U.N. treaty to eliminate twelve of the most deadly chemicals worldwide. She was identified as one of thirty young U.S. visionaries by the Utne Reader in 2002 and took part in the Environmental Leadership Program in 2004. Shawna was effective in establishing programs in hospitals and clinics throughout Alaska for safe disposal of medical waste. She is one of the trainers for the Democracy School in Alaska and she served on the Traditional Council of the Village of Chickaloon, where she was elected to the executive committee as Secretary. Before her work with Pacific Environment, Shawna was the Environmental Justice Program Director with Alaska Community Action on Toxics and was supported by the Indigenous Environmental Network. Shawna was a youth representative to the International Indian Treaty Council.
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
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 (Ph.D., University of California, 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.
Ana Duncan Pardo
Toxic Free North Carolina
Ana is the communications coordinator for Toxic Free North Carolina (NC), 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.
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.
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 US EPA and National Academy of Sciences. He practiced medicine primarily in New England for many years.
Amy C. Shannon
C.S. Mott Foundation
Amy Shannon is a Program Officer in the Environment Program of the C.S. Mott Foundation, working on sustainable international finance in South America. Prior to joining the foundation, she served as Associate Director and Acting Director of Enlaces América, a program of the Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights dedicated to enabling Latino immigrant-led organizations to become more effective advocates for progressive public policies in the U.S., and in their countries of origin. Ms. Shannon has also worked as a non-profit management consultant, primarily assisting foundations and NGOs with program design and project evaluation. 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 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.
