Organizational Info

Operating Organizational Structure

Our all-Volunteer effort is currently managing organizational development from these committees (whose members unite monthly as the “core team” to coordinate committee work):

• Structure & Organization
• Financial
• General Meetings & Events
• Communications & Web

To send a message to this core organizational team, please use our “Contact Us” form.

Core Team and Committees are comprised of:

Bob Cook
- Communications & Web committee
- Structure & Organizationcommittee

Carla Clark
- Communications & Web committee
- Structure & Organization committee (co-convener)
- General Meetings and Events committee

Tres English
- Communications & Web committee
Bio:
Tucson resident since 1961
Active in a wide variety of community issues, including transportation, water, landuse, neighborhoods, and energy. Recently completed a study for Pima County on the conditions of our aging housing stock.
Currently director of the Teaching & Helping program, which teaches high school-aged and other volunteers how to fix old houses by pairing volunteers with experienced professionals to repair homes of low-income families.

Kai Goodwillie
- General Meetings & Events committee
- Communications & Web committee

Madeline Kiser
- General Meetings & Events committee

Vera Lander
- Structure & Organization committee
Bio:
Member of Sustainable Tucson Core Team since initial Visioning meeting at El Ojito in January 2006. Now on Structure Committee and Faith Committee.
Pima Friends Meeting, member serving on the Ministry and Oversight, Finance and Library committees.
Microbusiness Advancement Center, Board Development Committee of Board of Directors.
Church Women United, Vice President of the national Board of Directors until July 2007, after having served as Tucson (1997), and then Arizona (2000) state President.
University of Arizona, Assistant Dean of Students at from 1972-1981
University of Arizona, B.S: Personnel. (1972), M.Ed (1974) and Ed.D.(1984) in Higher Education Administration, with emphasis on Leadership Development and Organization Design.
Born in Tucson, eldest of seven children, earned After moving to San Diego in 1981, Vera spent 11 years in California during which she learned that her early life had been sheltered and privileged. Life in the “real world” quickened her spiritual sensibilities and set her on her spiritual path.

James MacAdam
- Communications & Web committee
- Structure & Organization committee
I am a naturalist, freelance writer and sustainability advocate. My recent work has included greening a local health care facility, writing a monthly column on sustainability for Tucson Green magazine, and studying permaculture, green building and community design. I write Sustainable Tucson’s monthly email newsletter, and work on the organization’s communications and strategic development. Feel free to contact me at 780-9416.

Ronald Proctor
- General Meetings & Events committee
- Structure & Organization committee (convener)
Bio:
I am an architectural designer doing sustainable residential design in Tucson.
I have lived in Tucson since 1994 and have both professional Barch and March degrees from the University of Arizona. I enjoy getting out in the natural world, hiking and backpacking, and have logged more than 1000 miles in the Grand Canyon alone. Previous to moving to Tucson, I lived in coastal Maine where I built custom homes as part of a contracting cooperative.
My interest in sustainability has been lifelong and provides the challenge of our lives. The solution lies within our selves, our communities and within leadership at the topmost levels. Connecting on all those levels is my personal mission.

Joanie Sawyer
- Structure & Organization committee (co-convener)
Bio:
I work for PRO Neighborhoods, an asset-based community development initiative that gives small grants and technical assistance to grassroots neighborhood groups in Tucson and Pima County.” I earned a Masters of Liberal Studies degree from NAU, with a focus on Education for Sustainability.

Keely ‘Many Feathers’ Sinclair (aka the Green Diva)
- Finance committee
- Communications & Web committee
- General Meetings and Events committee
Bio:
Activist, Artist, Poet, Dancer, Earth Warrior.
Passionate about: green building, holistic health, relocalization, waste management, animal & human welfare, peace, fair trade and all things that help keep Mother Earth in balance.
Keely has a B.A. in Business Management, works for Defenders of Wildlife as the SW Coordinator, and is the Progam Assistant for Sustainable Tucson.

Susan L. Williams
- Finance committee
Bio:
Susan Williams is a free-lance writer and education consultant. Her experience encompasses K-12 special education, high school and community college science instruction as well as serving as administrator of environmental education programs.
Most recently Susan served as Director of Education at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. In 2003 Susan established a consulting business - Write for Change - which serves organizations working toward a more sustainable society. Her clients include food banks, public policy institutions, private and public schools, natural history centers, environmental education organizations, tribal communities and individual artists.
Susan writes and publishes essays and articles about social, political and ecological issues of the 21st Century. www.writeforchange.com

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