ForestEthics Board of Directors
Marika Holmgren (President)
Ms. Holmgren is the founder and principal of Organic Events, a boutique event production firm specializing in sustainable event production for progressive nonprofit organizations. She also produces the annual Goldman Environmental Prize Ceremony, the largest environmental prize program in the country. Ms. Holmgren graduated from the Green Corps Field School for Environmental Organizing, and has worked at several Bay Area nonprofit organizations, including Rainforest Action Network. She is also a Level II certified snowboard instructor, and established the Betty Fest women's snowboarding program in Keystone, Colorado. Length of service: 7 years
Neal Gorenflo (Secretary)
Neal Gorenflo is Project Director of CommonSource, a Tides Center project that publishes Shareable, an online magazine about sharing. Learn more about Neal Gorenflo. Length of service: 8 years
Nadine Weil (Treasurer)
Ms. Weil is
the founder of Heart of Green (www.heartofgreen.org) and a strategic
marketing adviser with over 15 years of experience in the technology,
internet and consumer sectors. She has worked with the portfolio
companies of VC firms including Kleiner Perkins and Benchmark Capital,
published market research in The New York Times, and has client list
which includes Yahoo!, Inktomi, Walt Disney, GTE/Verizon, among others.
She was a Product Marketing Manager for the EV1 electric vehicle in
1996 and won Global Intern of the Year at General Motors. Ms. Weil has
an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Industrial
Engineering from Stanford University. Length of service: 3 years
Jim Clay
Mr. Clay has been a successful entrepreneur for forty years specializing in providing long-term health and rehabilitation care to rural communities. Jim and Andy Leebron-Clay, his wife and fellow ForestEthics Board member, founded the Clay for Earth Foundation to support sustainable solutions for livable communities. Length of service: Started February 2009
Andy Leebron-Clay
Ms. Leebron-Clay is a businesswoman and registered nurse. She is a producer, director, and writer for Clay for Earth Productions, which she and her husband, Jim, founded to assist not-for-profit organizations in producing quality visual promotion and education. Andy Leebron-Clay and Jim Clay are completing Masters’ work in Sustainable Community Development at Goddard College. Length of service: Started February 2009
Kevin Johnson
Mr. Johnson has
more than 31 years experience working with public service
organizations. Since founding Retriever Development Counsel, LLC in
1998 Mr. Johnson’s consulting practice has evolved from jump-starting
major and legacy gifts projects to coaching nonprofit leaders on how to
be more strategic and effective in creating big plans, charting new
directions, and building sustainable funding models. His experience
includes a variety of roles including college Vice President, Director
of Development of a national environmental organization, Acting
Executive Director for a large children’s service organization,
Endowment Director, and Planned Giving Officer for a national
conservation organization. Mr. Johnson earned the designation of
Certified Specialist in Planned Giving (CSPG) from the Institute of
Philanthropic Studies at California State University. He is a current
board member of TACS (Technical Assistance for Community Services), and
a past president of the Northwest Planned Giving Roundtable. Length of service: Started July 2009
Stuart Sender
Mr. Sender is an award-winning broadcast journalist and war correspondent, screenwriter, and Oscar-nominated documentary producer and director. His credits include the acclaimed feature documentary Prisoner of Paradise (nominated for both an Academy Award and a Directors Guild Award), the weekly PBS series South Africa Now (recipient of a New York Emmy Award for best newsmagazine and a Polk Award for excellence in journalism), and
the first exclusive interview with Nelson Mandela following President Mandela's release from prison.
He also writes, produces and directs--with his wife and partner Julie Bergman Sender through their company Balcony Films, a media consulting firm and film production company, specializing in media messaging, merging storytelling with policy and state-of-the-art distribution strategies for social issue campaigns, as well as dramatic and documentary films. Mr. Sender has a degree in politics from the University of California at Santa Cruz and holds a Masters Degree in Journalism from Columbia University. Length of service: 3 years
Mark Westlund
Mr. Westlund was the public relations director for Bill Graham Presents before assuming that same position with the Rainforest Action Network in San Francisco. During his five years at RAN, the organization led Home Depot to stop selling wood from endangered old growth forests. He is currently the Director of Communications and Environmental Education for San Francisco’s Environment Department. This department runs municipal recycling and hazardous waste reduction programs as well as programs designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote alternative fuel vehicles. Mr. Westlund also works closely with the Board of Supervisors and the Mayor's Office to sponsor environmental legislation ranging from municipal bans on mercury fever thermometers to policy statements directing natural habitat restoration. Length of service: 7 years
Angel Kyodo Williams
Ms. Kyodo Williams is a writer, artist, business-woman, spiritual leader, and community activist. She is the acting Executive Director of the Mind Body Awareness Project, the Spiritual Director of the New Dharma Meditation Center for Urban Peace, the Founder of urbanPEACE, and a Senior Teacher of the Lineage Project. She is an ordained Zen Priest and Interfaith Minister, and is currently studying to become a certified Yoga Teacher. In the past, Ms. Kyodo Williams served on the board of the MBA Project, YES!: Youth for Environmental Sanity, and Vision Youth, and was also the Co-Creator & Managing Partner of Kokobar: Internet Café; Founder/Operations Manager of Spy Management: Entertainment Management; and Chief Financial Officer of Flavor Unit Management & Records. She is currently working on two non-fiction works on the relevance of Spirituality in Activism. Length of service: 4 years
Michael Uehara
As President and CEO of King Pacific Lodge in the Great Bear Rainforest Mr. Uehara is the Executive in charge of complete operations of this floating resort in Northern British Columbia with offices in North Vancouver. He is Recreational Property Development Manager for the Morita Company of Honolulu and brings a long history of marketing experience and ecotourism expertise to our board. Length of service: 4 years
