Ecology Action Board of Directors and Advisors
Board of Directors
John Jeavons
President and Executive Director (also see https://johnjeavons.org/ )
Matt Drewno
Vice-President, Manager of Victory Gardens for Peace
(https://www.victorygardensforpeace.com/ )
Olan Cox
Voting and Participating Member, Co-Proprietor Mendoughs Catering
Craig Alan Siska
Treasurer, Biodynamic-French Intensive Horticulture Consultant and creator of the Alan Chadwick Living Library & Archive (http://chadwickarchive.org)
John Beeby
Secretary, Voting and Participating Member, Harvest More (www.growyoursoil.org) Test your Soil. (www.testyoursoil.org) Animal Health Diagnostic Center, Master’s Student Soil and Crop Dept., Cornell University
Advisors
Ed Glenn, Ph.D.
Research Scientist and Head of the Bioresources Unit, Environmental Research Laboratory, University of Arizona
Joan Gussow, Ph.D.
Former Chair and Professor Emeritus Program in Nutrition, Columbia University Teachers College; and Chair, Board of Directors, Jesse Smith Noyes Foundation
Sandra Mardigian
Former Vice-President Ecology Action, Founder, Kilili Self-Help Project, Kenya; and former Managing Editor, Publications, Foundation for Global Community
Polly Noyce
Founder, Manor House Agricultural Centre, Kenya
Jennifer Raiser, M.B.A.
Author
Hugh Roberts, Ph.D., M. Div.
Former Executive Director, League for International Food Education; and Methodist Minister
Eric Rustin
Former East African Program Officer, Ford Foundation
Lenz Schaller
Director, KUSA Seed Foundation
Juan Manuel Martinez Valdez
Director, Non Profit Ecologia y Poblacion/El Mesquite (ECOPOL/EM) Mexico;
Ecology Action’s Sustainable Biointensive Mini-Farming Partner for Latin America and Europe
Former Board of Advisor Members (Deceased)
Bob Bergland
Former U.S Secretary of Agriculture, 1977-1981
Everett Dietrick
Director and Entomologist, Rincon-Vitova Insectaries
David Pimentel, Ph.D
Professor, Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University
Alejandro Zaffaroni, P.h.D.
Co-Founder, Suntex Corporation; Founder and Co-Chairman, Alza Corporation; Founder and President , Affymax Corporation
John Doran
Former President, Soil Science Society of America, and Member USDA Agriculture Research Service.
Updated 7-19-2023