The Board
Sustainable Fairfax (SFx) has retained qualified and experienced Board members that develop and implement policy and programs for the organization. The Board strives to bring excellence and success to the organization.
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Elizabeth Baker (Acting Executive Director) |
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Elizabeth moved to California to attend college and never left. She has lived with her family in Fairfax for over 25 years. Elizabeth has a BA from Mills College and advanced training from Bryn Mawr College in Higher Education Administration. She has been the Director of Admissions for a California college and was the Director of Health & Wellness at the Marin Jewish Community Center for 12 years.
Elizabeth has been a volunteer with Sustainable Fairfax since 2005. She has served on the Development committee, co-chair of the Sustainability Center and garden and most recently as Vice President.
Elizabeth is a graduate of the Environmental Forum of Marin and the Regenerative Design Institute 4- season permaculture program. She became a Marin Master Gardener in 2010 and is currently the Master Gardener Chair for the Indian Valley Organic Farm & Garden in Novato. She enjoys participating in the local community to provide support and access to resources that helps us live on the earth respectfully. Most recently, Elizabeth helped to launch the Fairfax Food Bank and continues to volunteer with the program. Elizabeth was instrumental in establishing Fairfax as the 99th Town as part of the Transition Town USA Initiative.
Her vision is to create educational and supportive resources for the community to understand the importance of localization and the inter-relatedness of food, watershed, environment, health and well-being for all.
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 Jen Jones, a talented local artist, has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2008 and a resident of Fairfax for 15 years. She is currently Co-President with board member Kathleen Lanphier.
Originally from England, Jen studied Art and English Literature in college and has been making art ever since she was a little girl. Jen has an innate aesthetic sensibility - her nature is to create and beautify, and all those around her benefit from her artistic expression. She began her career as a book illustrator for herbal, health and children’s books. Jen is a sought-after painter specializing in exterior and interior decorative painting as well as the crafting of beautiful hand-made signs. Her fine art, decorative paintings and hand-made signs can be seen all over Fairfax: at Sustainable Fairfax, the Sleeping Lady Restaurant, Good Earth Organic & Natural Foods, many town events and as downtown banners along Bolinas Road.
Jen is a very active member of our community and is an integral part of many local events. She has been on the Fairfax Ecofest Committee since its inception and has held the position of Ecofest Coordinator for the past two years. For six years, Jen has worked with children via her Peace Flag Making project. To date, over 1,200 peace flags have been created. The flags have traveled all over the Bay Area to decorate events, schools, and even a wedding. They also grace the façade of our Sustainability Center.
Jen is passionate about making art, gardening, caring for critters, keeping bees and engaging with her community. Sustainability and cherishing our environment is second-nature to her. Jen's hope is contribute to the movement towards a better future.
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Kathleen Lanphier (Co-President) |
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Kathleen has been a Board member of Sustainable Fairfax since 2007, serving as Secretary for the last 3 years before becoming Co-President with Jen Jones. She has over 20 years of retail and business management experience and is an ardent supporter of community involvement.
Through her nonprofit work, Kathleen is inspired to help improve our county's resiliency, protect our beautiful watershed, and learn how to grow her own food. With her involvement at Sustainable Fairfax she hopes to continue building community and help Fairfax continue to be a leader in civic sustainability. Kathleen is also a founding member of Permaculture Marin, has an Advanced Permaculture Design Certificate, is LEED Accredited, and a Certified Greywater System installer.
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Sheila McNulty (Vice President) |
 Sheila moved to Fairfax in October of 2009 and became actively involved with Sustainable Fairfax in March of 2010. Sheila is happily married and a devoted mother of two sons, one at White Hill Middle School and one at Drake High School. She has a B.A. in Art History with honors and an M.B.A. Sheila has over 15 years of experience in management, marketing, business development and retail. She owned an art gallery for three years, and has worked as a director of marketing and communications for a K-8 school, a marketing consultant in the architecture/engineering/construction industry, a director of business development for an architectural firm and as an associate director of an art gallery. Sheila loves Fairfax and is passionate about sustainability, localization, community and organic food. Sheila is Marketing Director at Good Earth Natural Foods in Fairfax.
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 Boog holds an MBA in Sustainable Management where her emphasis was on local economies and local currencies. She has worked in the environmental field for over 35 years in a plethora of different situations from community recycling in the early days to running work crews for the Marin Conservation Corps; training at risk young adults in carpentry and natural resource management skills and then directing the whole work program. She also initiated the recycling in parks program on a statewide level when the bottle bill was first passed. She has worked with organic food and fiber, environmental education, wilderness preservation, ecotourism and renewal energy.
She is personally committed to living as sustainable as lifestyle as possible and sharing her knowledge with others, being a role model especially as a bike commuter. Boog rides 18 miles to work and 27 miles to school. As well as the previously mentioned jobs, she is a carpenter by trade and wiliderness guide. For the last sixteen years she has had her own business providing financial management services to small local sustainable oriented businesses and has been an income tax professional for individuals for 12 years.
She has lived in Marin County for over twenty years, and ten in Fairfax. She spends a great deal of time hiking, biking, kayaking and enjoying the amazing natural resources surrounding us and wants to insure they remain preserved forever. Boog also went through the Environmental Forum of Marin program.
Boog is interested in renewable energy and transportation reform, social justice issues, values driven business, and community organizing. She is committed to incorporating integrated systems thinking, both in the environment and in social systems and within the office. She wants to become more engaged with her local community and feels that being the Treasurer of Sustainable Fairfax is an ideal scenario for her to contribute her skills to make an impact.
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Jennifer Hammond (Communications Chair) |
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 Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and recently received her MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School.
She is in the midst of a career change after eighteen years working as a paralegal on lawsuits related to toxic waste sites and consumer protection. She has been active in political campaigns, and served four years as the Election Reform Committee Chair for DemocracyAction, a San Francisco Democratic Club.
She is now focused on inspiring positive change by helping businesses and individuals implement sustainable practices so that our planet, people and economy can prosper for many years to come. Jen moved from San Francisco to Fairfax in August 2010, and now lives with her fiancee Brian, and two boys Keegan and Aidan. She is enjoying the strong sense of community here in Fairfax and wants to encourage and support its progressive values and commitment to sustainability principles.
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Renee Goddard (Projects Chair) |
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Renee joined the board in the summer of 2007. Combining the experience of her work as a whitewater guide and team building coordinator for Project Raft (Russians and Americans for Teamwork) with her Masters degree in Drama Therapy, Renee learned to listen, organize and activate people around common passions and goals most often in the outdoors and often in adverse conditions.
Ms. Goddard saw An Inconvenient Truth last year and was moved to bring her voice and her dedication to making a positive difference for the planet...home. She organized the ‘Inconvenient Group', a family based grassroots group with the deep belief that activating community and raising awareness to inspire individual and collective behavior was a way for her to contribute.
Working on Green Wednesdays with Sustainable Fairfax has reinspired her belief in what a community can accomplish with a clear mission, a dedicated team, and the desire to make change.
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Wendy Baker (Development Director) |
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Wendy joined the board in 2009 and has lived in Fairfax most of the past 30 years. She has an M.A. from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design and a B.A. from U. C. Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. Her career began as a Landscape Architect with National Park Service at Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) in S.F.
Wendy worked for several local Landscape Architecture firms, as a consultant to Rushton-Chartock Architects and as Community Planner for U.C. Berkeley where she hosted EIR and community meetings. Ms. Baker also worked in the economic development arena for four years with Alameda County and Joint Venture: Silicon Valley; she was Program Manager for a job-training center established through a $4-million grant that she wrote and managed. In 1990, Ms. Baker attended the American Film Institute (AFI) in L.A. where she worked for Fox Studios, Frances Ford Coppola and Quentin Tarantino. Most recently, she worked as a Field Organizer in Reno, Nevada, and as an Elected Delegate to the 2008 Presidential Convention. She has served the Boards of the National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC), Marin Chapter, and Habitat for Humanity, Marin.
Wendy has an appreciation for the arts, appropriate design on the land, and learning about the environment through educational experiences. She believes in ‘giving back’ to the community. Her contributions include serving as Mayor of Fairfax in 1988, winning the Grand Award from the bay area’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) for a county-wide carpool program, and leading Fairfax’s ban on Styrofoam.
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Stacy Weinberg-Diève (Executive Operations Advisor and Community Health Advocate) |
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Stacy is an international trade attorney with a passion for environmental conservation, toxic chemical reduction and civil rights issues. She has worked with a wide range of non-profit organizations, including the Ecology Center of Ann Arbor, National Campaign for Fair Elections, South Brooklyn Legal Services, B'nai Brith Youth Organization, Israel Network of Women, and Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. She has worked on numerous political campaigns doing fundraising, voter registration drives and volunteer coordination. Stacy also volunteers as an Election Protection attorney, documenting voting rights violations in national elections.
Stacy is committed to advocate for change on policy issues impacting our health, our children and our environment, as well as ensuring that sustainability resources are accessible to the entire Sustainable Fairfax community.
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Rebekah Collins (Co-Founder) |
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 Rebekah co-founded Sustainable Fairfax in 1999 and has been a major visionary and benefactor to the organization. She is a long-time activist organizing around the issue of global warming and is the founder of Marin CAN (Clean Alternative Energy Now).
Her background of growing up and working in an intentional community in Alaska with organic farming has provided her with a foundation in sustainable living. Ms. Collins lived overseas and worked on a diverse number of farms for several years in the Middle East and Europe.
In Marin, she studied horticulture at the College of Marin and operated a non-toxic gardening business for over 10 years. Rebekah left her position as President in early 2007 but has remained an advisor.
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After much hard work 