Sustainable Conservation thanks our tremendous committee members and volunteers for their myriad contributions that advance environmental solutions that make economic sense.
San Joaquin Valley Regional Committee
Charles Ahlem
Owner, Charles Ahlem Ranch and Hilmar Cheese Company
Paul Betancourt
Managing Partner, VF Farms
John Bidart
Owner and Operator, Bidart Dairies
Philip Bowles
Chairman, Bowles Farming Company
Emmy Cattani
Vice President, Cattani Farming
Greg Coleman
Vice President of Grower Relations, E. & J. Gallo Winery
John Diener
Owner, Red Rock Ranch
Dan Dooley
Of Counsel, Bolen Fransen Sawyers LLP
Michael Frantz
CEO, Frantz Wholesale Nursery
Dino Giacomazzi
Owner, Giacomazzi Dairy
David Villarino-Gonzalez
President and CEO, Farmworker Institute of Education and Leadership Development
Joseph MacIlvaine
President, Paramount Farming Company
Kathy Wood McLaughlin
Principal, TKM Consulting
Soapy Mulholland
Executive Director, Sequoia Riverlands Trust
Chuck Nichols
President, Nichols Farms and Nichols Pistachio; Owner, Sierra View Farms
David Orth
General Manager, Kings River Conservation District
Stuart Woolf
President and CEO, Woolf Farming Company
Southern California Regional Committee
Portia Cohen
Strategic Market Liaison, UCLA Health System
Victoria Seaver Dean
President, The Seaver Institute
A.G. Kawamura
Owner/Partner, Orange County Produce, LLC
Sarah Ketterer
Chief Executive Officer, Causeway Capital Management LLC
Peggy Lauer
Southern California Coordinator, Resource Renewal Institute
Randall Martinez
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Cordoba Corporation
Adán Ortega, Jr.
Principal, AOA (Adán Ortega Associates)
Tina Quinn
Co-Founder, Industrial Property Manager and Broker, Oppenheim Properties; Co-Founder, Sustainable Conservation
Wendy Wachtell
President, Joseph Drown Foundation
Making Big Ideas Work Campaign Leadership Committee
Charles Ahlem
Owner, Charles Ahlem Ranch and Hilmar Cheese Company
Chris Buchbinder
Portfolio Manager and Senior Vice President, Capital Group Companies
Sally Falkenhagen
Community Volunteer
Corny Gallagher
Senior Vice President – Food, Agriculture and Wine Executive, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Charlene Harvey
Co-Chair, Campaign for the Presidio and the Golden Gate National Parks; Board Member, Presidio Trust
Cynthia Hunter Lang
Director of Business Development for Brazil, Urban Innovation Exchange
Steve McCormick
Co-Founder, Earth Genome Project
Craig McNamara
President and Owner, Sierra Orchards; President, California Board of Food and Agriculture
Tina Quinn
Co-Founder, Industrial Property Manager and Broker, Oppenheim Properties; Co-Founder, Sustainable Conservation
Jennifer Sokolove
Program Director, Compton Foundation
Paul Wenger
President, California Farm Bureau Federation
California Horticultural Invasives Prevention (Cal-HIP) Steering Committee
Bethallyn Black
Contra Costa Resource Conservation District; Diablo Valley College Horticulture Program
Elizabeth Brusati
California Invasive Plant Council
Maureen Decombe
Landscape Consultant and Educator
Joe DiTomaso
University of California, Davis
Janet Enright
Association of Professional Landscape Designers, California Chapter
Jim Folsom
Huntington Botanical Gardens
Andrea Fox
California Farm Bureau Federation
Angel Guerzon
California Native Plant Society, Santa Cruz County Chapter; Landscape Designer
Vince Guise
Contra Costa County Agricultural Commissioner
Doug Johnson
California Invasive Plant Council
Dean Kelch
California Department of Food and Agriculture
Joshua Kress
California Department of Food and Agriculture
Betsy Peterson
California Association of Nurseries and Garden Centers; California Seed Association
Mary Pfeiffer
California Agricultural Commissioners and Sealers Association
Ron Ramsey
Village Nurseries
John Randall
The Nature Conservancy
Jon Reelhorn
Belmont Nursery
Craig Regelbrugge
AmericanHort
Sarah Reichard
University of Washington
Nicholas Staddon
Monrovia Growers
Carolyn Villa-Scott
Yamagami’s Nursery; Horticultural Consultant
Marketing and Communications Volunteers
Joe Bagley
Retired, Cupertino Union School District
Ann Iverson
Founder and Principal, Iverson Marketing Communications
Sustainable Conservation helps California thrive by uniting people to solve the toughest challenges facing our land, air, and water.
Every day we bring together business, landowners, and government to steward the resources on which we all depend in ways that make economic sense. Because we know that common ground is California’s most important resource.
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