Founders and Management

The people who make it happen!

Management Team

• Marsha Willard (president, executive director)
• Darcy Hitchcock (vice president, managing editor)
• Dorothy Atwood (secretary, resource manager)
• Christy Nordstrom (education manager)
• Simon Vreeswijk (web manager)
• Ray Berardinelli (marketing manager)
• Ira Feldman (board liaison)

Board Members

The following provide guidance and oversight to ISSP:

• Jill Bamburg, Dean, Bainbridge Graduate Institute
• Christophe Bongars, SustainAsia
• Unmesh Brahme, Managing Director & CEO, SustainabilityCXO Partners Worldwide
  President & Co-Founder, Climate Civics Institute
• Julian Crawford, Eco Steps
• Ira Feldman, Green Track Consulting
• Richard Goode, Senior Director of Sustainability at Alcatel-Lucent
• Steve Lane, Capri Capital Advisors
• KJ McCorry, eco-officiency, LLC
• James Miles, Director Sustainability Services and Research at Perform Sustain
• Robert Pojasek, Capaccio Environmental Engineering
• Laurel Sukup, State of Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
• Fabio Vancini, Sr PM, Fichtner Group
• Rick Woodward

Co-founders

The following people hatched the idea of ISSP around 2005-6 and volunteered untold hours to incubate it:

• Marsha Willard (AXIS Performance Advisors)
• Darcy Hitchcock (AXIS Performance Advisors
• Larry Chalfan (Zero Waste Alliance)
• Dorothy Atwood (Zero Waste Alliance)

Incubators

While ISSP is now its own 501C3, we will be forever grateful to the International Sustainable Development Foundation and the Zero Waste Alliance for their initial support during our start up years.  ISDF and ZWA provided the organizational shell within which we gestated along with administrative, technical and moral support. 

Individual Donors

• Rick Woodward
• Bob Willard

Founding Members

The following people were invited as Founding Members to help get the organization going. We are very grateful for them sharing their resources and their insights.

• Allen Lee, Xenergy
• Anne Landfield Grieg, Four Elements Consulting
• Bob Doppelt, Institute for a Sustainable Environment
• Bob Pojasek, SAI Global
• Bob Willard, author
• Cate Gable, author, Bainbridge Graduate Institute Faculty
• Cheryl Welch, Tualatin Valley Water District
• Doug Freeman, Arnoldcreek
• Ester Mathews, Austin Energy
• Fabio Vancini, Fichtner Economics + Environment
• Joel Makower, Green Business Network
• Karl Ostrum, NBIS
• Kathy Brewer, Hewlett-Packard
• Katie Sullivan, ICF International
• Katy Ansardi, Sustainable North Carolina
• Linda Lovett, City of Corvallis
• Lucie Drummond, DLA Philips Fox
• Lucy Brehm, Shorebank Pacific
• Madeline Snow
• Michele Crim, City of Portland, Office of Sustainable Development
• Molly Chidsey, Multnomah County
• Nik Blosser, Celilo Group & Sustainable Industries Journal
• Pamela Brody-Heine, Eco Stewardship Strategies
• Peter Clark, ICF International
• Rick Woodward, Coastwide Laboratories
• Roberta Anderson, Food Alliance
• Susan Bragdon, Oregon State University
• Susan Milhauser, City of Lake Oswego
• Susan Sakaki, Sustainable Earth Initiative
• Susan Sokol Blosser, Sokol-Blosser Winery
• Terry Moore, Sustainable Dallas
• Todd Rawlings, Washington Mutual Bank
• Tom Badrick, Legacy Health Systems
• Tom Crawford, Praxis Northwest
• Warren Flint, Five E's Consulting
• Wayne Rifer, Rifer Environmental and Green Electronics Council