ForestEthics Board of Directors
Kevin Johnson (President)
Kevin Johnson is the owner of Retriever Development Counsel, LLC,
a consulting practice specializing in creating effective organizational
strategies and helping clients get the resources to make those plans
realities. He is the author of The Power of Legacy and Planned Gifts on
legacy gifts and financial sustainability for nonprofits published by
Jossey-Bass/Wiley. In recent years he has helped clients initiate and/or
execute more than 91 strategic plans, leadership and board transitions,
and development projects in the western US and Canada. Length of service: Started July 2009
Andy Leebron-Clay (Vice-President)
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
Nadine Weil (Treasurer)
Ms. Weil is the founder of Heart of Green 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
James Clay (Secretary)
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
Marika Holmgren
Ms. Holmgren is the founder and lead event producer of Organic Events, a boutique event production firm specializing in sustainable event production for progressive 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, the team leader of Team LUNAChix Bay Area Mountain Bike team, and a Huffington Post blogger. Length of service: 7 years
Neal Gorenflo
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
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
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 news magazine 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
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
