EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Graciela Gilardoni - Board Chair
Russ Poppe - Board Vice Chair
Bill Prout - Secretary/Treasurer
Deborah January-Bevers - President/CEO
Keiji Asakura - Board Affairs Committee Chair
Chavonne Slovak - Passport & Great Green Quest (GGQ) Committee Chair
Matt Stahman - Development Chair

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Christopher Amandes - Amandes PLLC
Keiji Asakura - Asakura Robinson
Leslie Berardo, CPA
Jim Boone - Allen Boone Humphries Robinson, LLP
Tricia Brasseaux - Sandow Lakes Ranch Venture, LLC
Dr. Sam Brody - Texas A&M-Galveston, Institute for Disaster Resilient Texas (IDRT)
Glenn Buckley - Lake Creek Greenway
Ed Emmett - Rice University
Bill Evans - NRG
Jason Fuller - Straife
Graciela Gilardoni - Univision Communications
Phillip Goodwin - City of Houston
Evan Hofmann - Buckeye Partners
Deborah January-Bevers - Houston Wilderness
Cheryl Mergo - Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC)
Sydney Murphy - Polk County Judge, Polk County
Russ Poppe - HNTB Corporation
Dr. Daniel Price - University of Houston, Honors College
Bill Prout
Andrew Roberts – ConocoPhillips
Mike Rome - Dean of Business School, Houston Christian University
Jennifer Ronk - Dow Chemical Company, Sustainability
Chavonne Slovak - Harris County Commissioner’s Office, Precinct 1
Matt Stahman - RES (Resource Environmental Solutions)
Allan Traicoff - Climate Impact X
Timothy Vail – HDR
Lars N. Zetterstrom - LAN-Inc (Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam)

ADVISORY BOARD

Jed Aplaca - Pasadena Parks Department
Kayode Atoba - Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas (IDRT - Texas A&M)
Amanda Baucum – Economic Alliance Houston Port Region
Jorge Bustamante - Harris County Commissioner’s Office, Precinct 2
Trae Camble – Port Houston
Collin Cox - Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP
LaShondra Dixon - Dayton, Liberty County landowner
Tammy Dowe - SpotOn Communications
Dr. Theresa Guise – MD Anderson Cancer Center
Dr. Loren Hopkins - Rice University & Houston Health Dept
Bill Jackson - Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Cleo Johnson-McLaughlin – Black United Fund
Andy Jones, The Conservation Fund - Texas
John Kirksey - Kirksey
Ann Lents - Houston
Dr. Mary Ann Ottinger - University of Houston
Ben Patton - Reed Smith LLP
Ramona Ridge - Fulshear, Fort Bend County landowner
Beth Roberton - Co-founding member of Houston Wilderness
Andrew Sansom - Texas State University, Meadows Center for Water & the Environment
Carter Smith, Director - Retired, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Merrie Talley - Talley Landscape Architects