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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
CHAIRMAN - Board of Directors
ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR.'s reputation as a resolute defender of the environment stems from a litany of successful legal actions: prosecuting governments and companies for polluting the Hudson River and Long Island Sound; winning settlements for the Hudson Riverkeeper; arguing cases to expand citizen access to the shoreline, and suing sewage treatment plants to force compliance with the Clean Water Act. "He's a pioneering environmental attorney who has established whole new standards for governmental and industrial compliance with environmental laws,"said former Hudson Riverkeeper John Cronin.
Mr. Kennedy serves as Senior Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Chief Prosecuting Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and President of the Waterkeeper Alliance. He is also a Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney at the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic at Pace University School of Law in New York. Earlier in his career he served as Assistant District Attorney in New York City. He has worked on several political campaigns and was state coordinator for Edward M. Kennedy's 1980 Presidential Campaign. He has worked on environmental issues across the Americas and has assisted several indigenous tribes in Latin America and Canada in successfully negotiating treaties protecting traditional homelands. He is credited with leading the fight to protect New York City's water supply. The New York City watershed agreement, which he negotiated on behalf of environmentalists and New York City watershed consumers, is regarded as an international model in stakeholder consensus negotiations and sustainable development. He helped lead the fight to turn back the anti-environmental legislation during the 104th Congress.
Among Mr. Kennedy's published books are Crimes Against Nature (2004), The Riverkeepers (1997), New York State Apprentice Falconer's Manual, (1987), and Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr: A Biography (1977).
His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Pace Environmental Law Review, Rolling Stone, and other publications.
Mr. Kennedy is a graduate of Harvard University. He studied at the London School of Economics and received his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School. Following graduation he attended Pace University School of Law, where he was awarded a Masters Degree in Environmental Law.
He is a licensed master falconer, and, as often as possible, he pursues a life-long enthusiasm for white-water paddling. He has organized and led several expeditions to Latin America, including first descents on three little known rivers in Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela.
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Alex Matthiessen
Board of Directors
Alex Matthiessen is the Hudson River’s most visible and aggressive advocate. With the help of a team of attorneys and the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, he investigates potential threats to the watershed and enforces environmental law in order to safeguard the Hudson River valley and the New York City drinking water supply. In his capacity as Executive Director, Alex oversees the fundraising and outreach operations of Riverkeeper, Inc., a rapidly growing organization currently comprised of 20 staff.
Alex came to Riverkeeper in 2000 from the U.S. Department of Interior, where he served as Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary on matters of special importance to Secretary Bruce Babbitt. Alex’s primary responsibility was overseeing a government-wide task force to reform the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s hydropower licensing process. While at the Department of the Interior, Alex also conceived and developed the Green Energy Parks initiative, a joint program of the National Parks Service and the Department of Energy, which promotes clean and sustainable energy use throughout the national park system. For his leadership on the project, Alex received a Presidential Award from the White House. Prior to joining the Department of the Interior, he spent a year in Indonesia as a Macroeconomic Policy Analyst for the Harvard Institute for International Development and a summer working at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. In a stint as an independent environmental consultant, Alex wrote foundation grants and authored papers on the potential social and environmental impacts of international trade liberalization. Earlier in his career, he served as the Grassroots Program Director for the Rainforest Action Network in San Francisco, organizing and managing an international network of affiliate activist groups.
Alex earned a Masters of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1995 and a Bachelor of Arts, with degrees in Biology and Environmental Studies, from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1988.
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Andrew J. Willner
Board of Directors
Formerly a sailing vessel captain, city planner, furniture designer and boat builder, Andy is presently writing two books: a history of environmental advocacy in the Hackensack Meadowlands titled, They Won’t Shop and They Won’t Work and a mystery novel tentatively titled, The Bayshore. As a teacher and speaker, he has run workshops and symposia in environmental advocacy and practice, and has spoken at, chaired and participated in panels at regional and national conferences on subjects such as: the Public Trust Doctrine, Port vs. Estuary, the State of the Harbor, Storm Water and Metal Recycling, Environmental Advocacy and Ecological Democracy. In the past decade, Andy has served as a member of many environmental organizations, including the NY/NJ Harbor Estuary Program’s Habitat Work Group, the Dredge Materials Management Work Group, the Hackensack Meadowlands Special Area Management Plan, the Hackensack Meadowlands Partnership, and the Keyport, NJ Planning Commission and Environmental Commission. Among his awards is a UNEP 500 Environmental Program Achiever from the U.S. Committee for the United Nations Environmental Program, the Stewardship Recognition Award from New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the “Hero of the Harbor” Award at the 1999 Waterfront Conference of the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance. Since 1989, Andy has served as Executive Director of the NY/NJ Baykeeper, an affiliate and subsidiary of the American Littoral Society, a national conservation organization concerned with coastal issues.
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Bob Shavelson
Secretary - Board of Directors
Bob Shavelson is an attorney with a background in biology, chemistry, and environmental sampling and compliance. Bob grew up surfing, swimming and sailing in Southern New Jersey, where the dead dolphins, syringes and sludge dumping of the early 1980’s prompted his interest in coastal protection. He was Editor-in-Chief of the University of Oregon's Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation, and he has considerable experience in toxics, water quality protection and coastal management issues. Prior to joining the Waterkeeper movement in 1996, Bob litigated Clean Water Act and Right-to-Know citizen suits, and he previously worked in the United States Senate, Oregon's Senate Majority Office, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium, and the University of Oregon's Ocean & Coastal Law Center. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Waterkeeper Alliance, the Coast Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the nation’s coastlines; the Alaska Conservation Alliance, the statewide umbrella group for conservation interests in Alaska; and the Cook Inlet Regional Citizen’s Advisory Council, a citizens group formed after the Exxon Valdez oil spill to promote safe oil operations in Cook Inlet. Bob holds a B.A. in Biology from Boston University and a J.D. from the University of Oregon.
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Bruce Reznik
Board of Directors
Bruce Reznik, a California licensed attorney specializing in environmental law, joined San Diego BayKeeper as Executive Director/BayKeeper in August 1999, where he directs the organization’s advocacy and outreach efforts to protect the region's bays and coastal waters. Under his leadership, BayKeeper has grown to a staff of eight, making it the largest clean water advocacy organization in the region. During his tenure, BayKeeper launched its successful Environmental Law & Policy Clinic, its Bi-national Citizen Water Monitoring Program and its Kelp Restoration project. Bruce is a Gray Davis’ appointee to the statewide AB 982 Public Advisory Group assisting the State Water Resources Control Board in its implementation water quality programs, and he also sits on the City of San Diego’s Clean Water Taskforce, co-chaired by Mayor Murphy and Councilmember Scott Peters. He is the Vice President of the California CoastKeeper Alliance and a member of several Board of Directors, including Vote The Coast, the League of Conservation Voters (San Diego chapter), and The San Diego United Way. Bruce was named the 2001 “Outstanding Young San Diegan” by the San Diego Junior Chamber of Commerce, and San Diego City Councilmember Donna Frye recognized his work with “Bruce Reznik Day” on June 24, 2001. Bruce graduated from the University of California Berkeley with a degree in Political Science, the University of San Diego School of Law, where he earned his Juris Doctor, and the George Washington University, where he completed environmental law coursework. Prior to joining BayKeeper, Bruce was the Senior Associate at Gladstein & Associates, a Los Angeles-based consulting firm specializing in air quality, alternative fuel and advanced transportation projects.
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Casi Callaway
Board of Directors
Casi (kc) Callaway is from Mobile, Alabama and graduated with a degree in Philosophy and Ecology from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. While in school, she held her first environmental organizing position as the Southeastern Regional College Campus Coordinator for Earth Day 1990.
As Baykeeper and Executive Director of Mobile Bay Watch Inc./Mobile Baykeeper, Ms. Callaway is responsible for coordinating public education; community organizing; research and fundraising. MBK has more than 2,400 members and deals with issues such as sewage, air toxics, mercury exposure, permit violations and industrial growth. The organization focuses on air and water quality issues, water quantity, health, and the protection of our natural resources.
Two governors have appointed Ms. Callaway to the Mobile Bay National Estuary Program’s Management Committee, the Gulf of Mexico Program’s Citizen Advisory Committee and Management Committee, the Alabama Commission on Environmental Initiatives, the Coastal Resources Advisory Council and the Scenic Byways Advisory Committee. She also serves on the Boards of the Alabama Rivers Alliance, Gulf Restoration Network, the Scenic Causeway Coalition and the Steering Committee for the Mobile County Air Quality Study.
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Cheryl Nenn
Board of Directors
Milwaukee Riverkeeper Cheryl Nenn earned a B.S. in Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1994 and an M.S. in Resource Ecology and Management from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment in 1999. Her master’s thesis research investigated the conservation and management of the Columbia spotted frog (candidate species) and Lahontan cutthroat trout (federally threatened species) on federally managed lands in central and northeast Nevada. Before joining FMR, her job experience included: consulting on environmental projects and writing environmental assessments for the U.S. Forest Service, as well as writing management plans for Wisconsin DOT wetland mitigation sites; providing forestry and wildlife related information to private landowners in southeast Michigan for the Michigan DNR and Dept. of Agriculture; and helping manage forest restoration, reforestation, and erosion control projects for the City of New York, Department of Parks and Recreation. She also served as a forestry extension/environmental education Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador, and as a Crisis Corps volunteer in Honduras, helping with community rebuilding and reforestation projects after Hurricane Mitch.
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Deb Self
Board of Directors
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Donna Marie Lisenby
Board of Directors
Donna Lisenby is the Catawba Riverkeeper and has childhood roots in rural Blenheim, Marlboro County, South Carolina. With a close and extensive family throughout South Carolina, relatives would describe the eldest of three siblings as adventurous to daring, highly competitive in spirit with a drive from early on, “to right anything she saw as unfair or unjust.”
Donna’s lifelong commitment for, “Building sustainable relationships between people and the Earth”, began shortly after earned a Bachelors of Science from Clemson University in 1987. As manager of a 300 acre Chester County livestock farm, Donna transformed the farm from traditional farming practices into a demonstration project for sustainable agriculture. She also focused personal energy on her community by becoming a volunteer firefighter and helping start a neighborhood organization, the Edgemoor Community Action Association. Working with her neighbors, the Edgemoor group saved a local school from becoming a tire incineration facility and in 1993 they bought the building and turned it into a community center. The facility continues to serve the neighborhood today as the local voting precinct, home to a Head Start program and hosts an active Seniors Center.
Donna’s passion for sustainable communities would continue when she was chosen to serve as the Catawba Riverkeeper in 1998. Through the support and vision of the Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation, Donna has continued with indomitable spirit and “without compromise” to be the voice of the River. Her job is to preserve, protect and preserve all 300 miles of the Catawba River. She accomplishes this task by training and supervising a basinwide network of volunteer Covekeepers to conduct environmental education, water quality monitoring and enforcement of existing environmental laws. She has thusfar created, trained and leads major 4 neighborhood watch programs for the river on Lake Norman, Mountain Island Lake, Lake Wylie and Lake Wateree.
Since Lisenby took the helm of the Catawba Riverkeeper Program, she was named "Charlotte's Best Advocate" by Charlotte Magazine in May, 2000, a "1999 Guardian of the Environment" by The Charlotte Observer and was selected as a recipient of the Charlotte Coalition's "Blue Thumb" award. The Catawba Riverkeeper Program is also the only environmental organization to receive three Best of Charlotte Awards for "Best Effort to Improve the Environment" in 1999, 2000 and 2004. Other awards include the the Mountain Island Lake Marine Commission's Blue Fin Award for 2003, the Lake James Task Force Award for Outstanding and Distinguished Service in 2004, and the 2005 J. H. "Mac" McSwain Community Service Award for exemplary community service to the Lake Wateree Community.
A tenacious and highly experienced advocate for building sustainable human relationships with the earth, Lisenby is also a compelling and passionate voice for the river.
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Erick Bozzi II
Board of Directors
Erick Bozzi II, Founder and Director, STAR ECO Station.
Erick is Founder and Director of STAR ECO Stations in Sacramento, San
Francisco, and Culver City. The Culver City ECO Station is an official
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Rescue Center and Environmental Science Education
Center that houses over 100 species of tropical and exotic animals from
around the globe. A trained biologist, Erick is ECO Station's Wildlife
Instructor and presents for 32 school districts.
Erick has received many awards for his efforts to protect wildlife.
Among them are Commendations from California Governor Davis, Los Angeles
County, and Culver City, as well as the Environmental Education Award
from the Los Angeles World Trust Foundation. Erick also serves on the
Board of Directors of the Latino American Association in Boyle Heights,
California and on the Boards of STAR Education and Cartagena Baykeeper in Colombia. Erick has worked
extensively with Latin American Waterkeeper programs, and serves as the Latin American Representative on the Waterkeeper Alliance board.
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Fernando Rey
Board of Directors
Fernando Rey was born and raised in Cartagena, a seaport city located in Colombia’s Caribbean coast. For the last thirty years Fernando has continuously battled against the industrial and sewage pollution of Cartagena’s most precious ecosystem, its bay. After earning his BS in Biology and Chemistry from University of Bogota Jorge Tadeo Lozano in 1974, he joined INDERENA’s commitment to protect Colombia’s most threaten ecosystems and he became an environmental advocate to save the Cartagena Bay.
Fernando is a very well known Marine Biologist in Colombia, where he has served for the following institutions: Project Leader for Sustainable Aquaculture at Instituto Nacional de los Recursos Naturales y del Ambiente –INDERENA (1976 to 1987). Associate Professor at University of Bogota Jorge Tadeo Lozano, faculty of Marine Biology (1982 – 1998). Deputy Manager for Fisheries Regulations at Instituto Nacional de Pesca y Acuicultura –INPA (1995 – 1998) where he oversaw efforts to revitalize Colombia’s marine fisheries and protect ocean ecosystems. Deputy Manager for Natural Resources at Corporación para el Desarrollo Sostenible del Norte y el Oriente Amazónico –CDA (1998 - 2000) where he led plans to conserve endangered wildlife and to protect threaten ecosystems.
Since late 2000, Mr. Rey has served as Scientific Director at Star Eco Station, an environmental education and wildlife rescue center located in Culver City, California. In 1981 Mr. Fernando Rey was awarded by the Honor Society of Agriculture Gamma Sigma Delta with the Certificate of Membership in recognition of his high scholarship and outstanding service to Agricultural Science. In 2003 was awarded by Star Eco Station with the International Environmental Advocate Award in recognition of his services and dedication to protect the Amazonian rainforest. Since 1975, through his career Fernando Rey became involved with various educational and scientific issues regarding Cartagena Bay and Cienaga de la Virgen environmental conservation. Then he promoted the development of a more specific environmental agenda to save Cartagena’s aquatic ecosystems, which led to the foundation of the Cartagena Baykeeper program in 2002.
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Jeff Salt
Board of Directors
Jeff Salt, the Great Salt Lakekeeper, is a native Oregonian who grew up along the Willamette River where he developed his passion for rivers and waterways. Mr. Salt is a paddle sport enthusiast, and dedicated advocate for protecting public waterways for wildlife and human uses.
Mr. Salt attended Brigham Young University and the University of Utah where he pursued a self-directed, interdisciplinary educational program that culminated in a comparative analysis of the international treaties and political relations between the nation states of the Colorado River and the Nile River systems.
Since 1977, Mr. Salt has become widely known in Utah through his work as proprietor of an iconic gift and music store, radio show host and personality at local commercial and public radio stations, community drum circle facilitator, concert promoter, researcher and activist against nuclear waste, and through his current endeavors as the Great Salt Lakekeeper.
From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Salt worked for Great Salt Lake Audubon, Utah’s oldest nonprofit conservation organization, first as Education Director and then Executive Director. In 2001, Mr. Salt created Great Salt Lakekeeper as a sponsored program of Great Salt Lake Audubon. In 2004, Great Salt Lakekeeper was reorganized and Mr. Salt became its first Executive Director.
Currently, Mr. Salt serves as President of the Foundation for the Provo-Jordan River Parkway, Coordinator for the Great Salt Lake Watershed Council, founding member of the Wasatch Back Environmental Alliance, and environmental representative to the Statewide Mercury Work Group. Previously, Mr. Salt has served as Co-chair of the Utah Watershed Coordinating Council, founding member and steering committee Chair for the Jordan River Natural Areas Forum, steering committee member of the Utah Governor’s Watershed Initiative, and Chair of the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Open Space Advisory Committee. Mr. Salt has also formed several community action groups focused on protecting local waterways. In 2003, Mr. Salt became one of the first certified environmental educators in the nation, and later that year, also received the Utah Nonpoint Source Water Quality Award for his efforts in organizing local river cleanup projects.
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Joe Payne
Board of Directors
Joe Payne, Casco Baykeeper, was the first full-time employee of Friends of Casco Bay, which was a volunteer, grassroots organization until he was hired to be the professional steward of Casco Bay. Joe left the environmental consulting firm, Normandeau Associates, where he had worked as a marine biologist for 12 years to become the Casco Baykeeper. A native Portlander who summered on Peaks Island as a child and the grandson of a fisherman, Joe is guided by both a passionate love for the Bay and an understanding of its physical and biological dynamics. Under his leadership, FOCB implemented programs that combined environmental protection with economic pragmatism.
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Karl Coplan
Board of Directors
Professor Coplan is co-director of the Environmental Litigation Clinic at Pace University. Eight years prior to joining the Pace faculty, he practiced land use and environmental litigation in New York City with the firm Berle, Kass & Case. Professor Coplan’s career in private practice includes numerous environmental and civil rights cases on behalf of citizens groups and plaintiffs. Two such cases were Houston v. City of Cocoa, which applied federal environmental review laws to federally financed municipal redevelopment activities designed to displace a minority community, and County of Westchester v. Town of Greenwich, which established that an airport could not cut trees on neighboring properties under a theory of prescriptive rights. Before entering private practice, he clerked for The Honorable Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States, and The Honorable Leonard I. Garth, Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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Mark Mattson
TREASURER - Board of Directors
Mark Mattson the Lake Ontario Waterkeeper. Mark is a litigator with experience in criminal defence, environmental prosecution, and administrative law. Over the past ten years, Mark acted as counsel for environmental and public interest groups in more than 40 hearings and represented clients in both Provincial and Federal courts.
In the past, Mark prosecuted environmental offenders for the Province of Ontario and recently acted as co-counsel in the environmental prosecution for private informants. Further, Mark has the unique experience of investigating environmental offences and testifying as a witness in court.
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Maya K. van Rossum
Board of Directors
Maya K. van Rossum has been working at Delaware Riverkeeper since 1994, when she began her Assistant Directorship for the organization. Two years later she was appointed to the position of Riverkeeper, and further put to use her skills as an environmental attorney, strategist, community organizer, facilitator, coalition builder and manager. Delaware Riverkeeper’s major accomplishments under van Rossum’s leadership, including enforcing environmental laws and defeating projects that threaten waterways and communities, demonstrate her focused commitment to the environment. As Riverkeeper, van Rossum serves on a number of the region's committees, including the Delaware River Basin Commission's Toxic Advisory Committee and Water Quality Advisory Committee, the Lower Delaware River Wild & Scenic Management Plan Committee and Advisory Committee, and she also has served on Pennsylvania's Citizen Volunteer Monitoring Panel, as well as New Jersey’s Stormwater Focus Group. Van Rossum was invited to testify before the U.S. House Committee on Resources concerning Wild and Scenic designation for the Lower Delaware River in 2000, and she has published articles on environmental law in both the Virginia Environmental Law Journal and Vermont Environmental Law Review. Additionally, she has received a number of awards for her work as Riverkeeper including the Touchstone Award, Society of Women Environmental Professionals, 2001; Water Bearer Award for Environmental Excellence, Clean Water Fund, 2001; The Robert P. Doherty Ribbon of Green Award, Darby Creek Valley Association, 2000; Advocacy Award, Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions, 1999. Van Rossum has a B.S. from La Salle University; a Juris Doctor degree with Certificate in Environmental Law, cum laude from Pace University School of Law; and a Masters of Law degree in Corporate Finance from Widener University School of Law.
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Richard (Rick) J. Dove
Board of Directors (Honorary)
Rick Dove has been Waterkeeper Alliance's Southeast Representative since July 2000. A former Riverkeeper, Rick spends much of his time training new Waterkeeper programs. He also works alongside Jeff Odefey on the Alliance’s Sustainable Agriculture campaign. Before serving as the southeastern representative for Waterkeeper Alliance, Rick enjoyed a varied career that began with two tours in Vietnam with the United States Marine Corps, for which he later served as a military courts-martial judge, Congressional Liaison and Provost-Marshal. After retiring from the military, Rick commercially fished the Neuse River and owned and operated a wholesale fish store until 1991. He then practiced civilian law until becoming the Neuse Riverkeeper in 1993, a post he held until the year 2000. As the river’s spokesperson, Rick has been in more than 4000 news stories in both major and local media, and his work was detailed in a chapter of the 1997 Simon and Schuster book, And the Waters Turned to Blood. From 1996-1998, Rick was the Governor’s appointee to the Neuse River Basin Advisory Council, during which time he was asked to testify before the U.S. Congress Committee on Resources, Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans Subcommittee on the microorganism Pfiesteria Piscidia and its effects on the river. In 1999, Rick was named one of “100 People Who Have Shaped the North Carolina in the past Century” by the Raleigh News and Observer, and in 2000 he received the Environmental Protection Agency’s IV Merit Award. In 2001, Rick received an Appreciation Award from the Alliance for a Responsible Swine Industry, and later that year he was given the Nancy Susan Reynolds Award for Advocacy. In 2002 he again testified for the government as an invited witness before the U.S. Senate Committee, Government Affairs about pollution from industrial animal factories. Rick graduated from the Baltimore School of Law in 1962, and from the National War College in 1980.
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Terry Backer
VICE PRESIDENT - Board of Directors
Terry Backer is the appointed Soundkeeper and Executive Director of the Long Island Soundkeeper Fund, Inc., whose mission it is to protect and enhance the environmental integrity of Long Island Sound. He oversees all projects with approval from the Board of Directors. A third generation fishermen long-active in his family’s shellfishing business, Terry has fished Long Island Sound for much of his working life. He has also fished the Pacific Northwest and Alaska for salmon and is a United States Coast Guard licensed master.
Terry built a reputation on the Sound by monitoring and patrolling its waters and watershed, tracking down polluters and making them accountable for violations. Today he monitors the regulatory processes for projects that may jeopardize the biological integrity of the Sound, and he develops programs that will make a difference in the future of the waterbody.
Terry has been a State Representative from Connecticut’s 121st District (Stratford) since 1992 and serves as Vice Chair of the Appropriations committee. Terry is also a member of the Environment committee, Energy and Technologies committee and Regulations Review committee. His duties include overseeing budgets for ten state agencies totaling over three billion dollars annually. He was appointed by Governor Weicker to serve on Connecticut's Council on Environmental Quality from 1990 to 1992, and he was appointed by Senate President Pro Tempore to serve on the Long Island Sound Advisory Council. Moreover, Terry is an advisor to shellfishing and environmental organizations concerned with water quality both in Long Island Sound and in estuaries around the nation, and he is a founding member of the Long Island Sound Watershed Alliance. He has been a member of the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference since 1988, and he is currently an Executive Board Member.
Terry has been honored by the U.S. Committee for the United Nations Environment Programme for his contributions in protecting the Earth's Environment. Additionally, under Terry's leadership, Soundkeeper received an Environmental Achievement Award from Renew America, a national environmental organization based in Washington D.C. Soundkeeper was selected by leaders of the nation's environmental community for its success in protecting the environment, while serving as a model for similar organizations around the country.
Terry Backer lives in Stratford, Connecticut and has two sons, Jacob and Luke.
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