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Jack Marshall, PhD, (President) is an applied anthropologist with a focus on international population and
family planning. After teaching at the University of North Carolina (Anthropology Dept. and School of Public Health),
Jack moved to Geneva to direct social science research in family planning for the World Health Organization.
Before retiring in Albemarle County, he helped establish a new university in Indonesia and served as a consultant
to an array of international organizations. In the Charlottesville area he has served as an officer and Board member
of many local organizations and as Chair of the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority.
Laura Horn (Vice President) is an online executive
with a twenty-five year career in the development and marketing of innovative information and technology products to professionals and consumers. She was a founder and director of Wondir, Inc., a live, interactive search service. She serves on the board of Poetry Daily, as a trustee of Buena Vista College (her alma mater), and on the Advisory Board at the University of Virginia Women 's Center. Previously, as Vice President of Systems Development for America OnLine, Ms. Horn was responsible for many of the products that AOL's millions of consumers use every day. Ms. Horn also has held leadership positions in sales, marketing and development at LEXIS-NEXIS.
Geoff Mattocks (Treasurer) was born in Manila, Philippines, the son of missionary parents.
He was educated at McGill University, Boston University, and New York University. He began his
career in education as a high school teacher of history and thirty-three years later ended as superintendent
of schools in a large Long Island school district. Geoffrey and his wife Gail acquired land in Albemarle
County in the late 80s and built their home in Earlysville in 1992. They are active in Buck Mountain Church
and other community organizations.
Elizabeth Burdash (Secretary) taught psychology at the College of San Mateo, in the San Francisco Bay
area, for thirty years before retiring and moving to Albemarle County. Here she joined Senior Statesmen of
Virginia and chaired their Education Committee, where with the help of Emily Couric she was instrumental in
getting a program called Re-Seed into the local middle schools. This program prepares retired scientists and
engineers to help students understand physics by supplementing classroom instruction with hands-on activities.
Elizabeth has also served as Coordinator of the central Virginia chapter of Washington Area Secular Humanists.
She has a B.A. from Boston University and an M.S. from M.I.T.
Rich Collins, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia. A member of the faculty there since 1974,
Collins was the first chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning in the School of Architecture.
He founded the Institute for Environmental Negotiation at the University in 1980 and served as its Director for
nearly 20 years. In addition to his teaching, he has written extensively on urban and environmental issues, and
he has served as a mediator in numerous land use and environmental disputes.
Francis Fife, retired banker, has over fifty years experience in affordable housing, serving on the Virginia
Department of Housing and Community Development, the Virginia Housing Authority, the Charlottesville Housing
Foundation (a founder) and the Piedmont Housing Alliance boards. A community leader, Francis was Charlottesville
Mayor and City Councilor, chaired Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission, and the Rivanna Water and Sewer
Authority. Francis received the Chamber of Commerce McIntire Award, the Martin Luther King, Jr., and Drewary Brown
Bridge Builder awards. Founder and President of Rivanna Trails Foundation, Francis led his dream of a trail around
the City to reality.
Waldo Jaquith
is the web editor for UVa's Virginia Quarterly Review.
He attended Western Albemarle High School and the Living Education Center for the Ecology and the Arts, and holds a degree from Virginia Tech. His interest in civics and community have led him to establish a series of related internet resources, including Richmond Sunlight and cvillenews.com. He was a 2005 fellow of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, and lives in the Southwest Mountains of Stony Point with his wife.
Stephen Levine , PhD., is currently a Scholar in Residence
in the history department at the University of Virginia. Though he
has no formal training in disciplines whose foci are on the
environmental or population issues, he has been an active member of
the Sierra Club, The Nature Conservancy, Planned Parenthood, Natural
Resources Council of Maine, and several other similar organizations.
On the local level, he is vice president of the Proffit Community
Association, a farmer, and the owner of the Forks of the Rivanna, a
154.5 Nature Conservancy reserve located about 6 miles from downtown
Charlottesville.
Philip Marx is a thirty-five-year resident of Albemarle County ---the last twenty-five in the same home in Ivy where he and his wife, Ann, are raising their three children. Phil is managing editor of an internationally acclaimed automotive magazine and holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Virginia . He is a member of the Ivy Community Association board of directors and other community organizations dedicated to preservation, truth, justice and the American way. He has had a lifelong interest in BMW cars and motorcycles both as a vocation and avocation.
Cynthia Neff moved to Albemarle County in 2006, upon retiring from IBM as a Vice President of Human Resources with responsibility for one of IBM's global businesses. She currently serves on the board of the AIDS/HIV Services Group, the advisory council of the Legal Aid Justice Center and is co-chair of the national board for GenderPAC. Cynthia volunteers as a CASA and does legal research at the Legal Aid Justice Center for the Virginia Incarcerated Persons project. She also serves on the Steering Committee of the Albemarle County Democratic Party. She has supported work in the Nature Conservancy, Defenders of Wildlife, the Farm Sanctuary and other national organizations.
Tom Olivier, Ph.D.,
grew up in New Orleans and has resided in the Scottsville District of Albemarle County since 1981. He holds degrees in biology and biological anthropology, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in theoretical biology. Tom has done research on the genetics of mammalian populations in Africa , Australia and the Caribbean and has developed commercial health risk analysis software. At present he spends most of his time building computer simulations of animal populations, raising sheep and working to conserve natural resources in Central Virginia . He is a member of the executive committee of the Piedmont Group of the Sierra Club and a member of the Albemarle County Natural Heritage Committee.
David Shreve, Ph.D.,
is a former professor at the University of Virginia , with a joint appointment at the Miller Center of Public Affairs and the Department of History. He is a specialist in 20 th century U.S. political history and national, state, and local economic policy. Also a former high school teacher and a budget analyst for the Louisiana legislature, David earned his doctorate in economic history at Louisiana State University in 1995. He is a member of the Virginia Organizing Project Tax Reform Committee and the author of the forthcoming book, American Promise: Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and the Forging of the Modern Economy.
Jane Williamson holds an undergraduate degree in political science from Radcliffe College and a graduate degree in health promotion from the University of Virginia . For the past 20 years, she has been a self-employed health educator working in venues both local and out of state. She is a lifelong resident of Albemarle County and both her birth and marriage families have owned businesses that have a combined history of over eighty years of operation in Charlottesville and Albemarle County . The fact that one of these businesses is road building does not deter Jane or her family from being enthusiastic proponents of preserving the beauty and quality of life in Albemarle County.
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