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Christa has spent decades founding and leading nonprofit organizations and consulting firms to advance systems change and justice across food systems, community development, and health. This work has included designing and managing complex interdisciplinary and environmental projects, drafting state legislation, research, facilitating significant nationwide grant-making and coalitions, and serving as a professor in conflict transformation. She has served on numerous Boards and been appointed to many Town committees and leadership groups. Christa currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Society for Ecological Restoration, Northeast (SER-NE).

Christa earned a Masters in Public Policy & Administration on a science fellowship and later was sponsored to earn a professional certificate in Creative Placemaking (use of arts & culture to authentically shape the physical and social character of a place). She is committed to supporting local community and the natural environment, which in 2022 prompted her to shift from working across the U.S. to a focus on beloved Cape Cod.  

Lisa has over 30 years of business administration experience, including most recently as Regional Operations Manager for Mass Audubon – Cape Cod Region.  Previously she was the Health Center Director for Outer Cape Health Services in Wellfleet.  She and her family purchased a long-time family home on Duck Creek in Wellfleet in 2019, relocating from the North Shore where she had owned a small business for 15 years.  She received her MBA from Boston University with a concentration in Healthcare Administration.  Lisa feels a deep connection to the land, and living on a tidal creek in Wellfleet gives her up close and personal views of impacts of sea level rise and climate change.  This informs her work with Friends of Herring River.

Christine is living her dream, “washed ashore” and working full time on Cape Cod. Prior experience includes ten years of outreach and education as a MassDEP Wetlands Circuit Rider, three years as a municipal Conservation Agent/Stormwater Coordinator and six years of construction site sampling and monitoring on the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (fascinating!!). She took advantage of the Cooperative Education Program at Northeastern University and considers that experience as important as classes.

Hillary has worked as a scientist researching the ecology of salt marshes for over 10 years, and prior to joining Friends of Herring River, she worked at Woodwell Climate researching human impacts to salt marshes. She earned her PhD in marine science from Northeastern University with a focus on hydrologic restoration in salt marshes. Hillary is passionate about preserving natural spaces and their ecosystem services in the face of climate change. 

Beth created and ran Hopper House Tours from 2013 to 2021. She toured local residents and vistors from around the world to where American artists Edward Hopper and his wife, Josephine, painted in Truro and Wellfleet. She now presents illustrated lectures on the Hoppers and their work in private homes. She has provided pro bono PR services to local non-profits. She held leadership positions at the Church of St. Mary of the Harbor (Episcopal) in Provincetown, and sings in the 100-person Outer Cape Chorale. From 1991 to 2015, Beth ran Ink&Air, a public relations firm specializing in marketing and communications strategy for financial services firms, mutual funds, and financial advisors.

Jackie has had a 40-year international corporate career, mostly in the healthcare industry. She most recently served as CEO of Agios Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, MA. She has B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics and a Ph.D. in finance. In 2017 she decided to pursue a Master’s in environmental management from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. She completed that program in 2019, during which time she participated in research with the Herring River Restoration Project team. She is highly interested in not only contributing to the restoration of the Herring River, but also in the preservation of the unique attributes of the Cape Cod ecosystem at large. Jackie and her partner have owned their home in Wellfleet since 2009.

Lauren has devoted her career to innovating creative and thought-provoking ways to educate learners of different ages, backgrounds and perspectives. For more than ten years, she has worked in the museum field, where she has curated exhibitions that spark meaningful dialogue about timely topics. She particularly enjoys organizing public programs that offer new insights into topics of both historic and contemporary concern. Lauren previously worked in educational publishing, where she wrote and edited curriculum material for the K-12 market.

Chris is the Director of the Natural Resources Department in the Town of Brewster. He has a BS in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology, an MS in Chemical Engineering and a graduate certificate in local government. His background includes 12 years with the town, plus over 10 years in environmental consulting. He has been the project manager for several large salt marsh restoration projects and coastal resilience projects in Brewster.

Laura works with nonprofits and philanthropists to design and raise funds for high-impact initiatives. She builds on a 30+ year career helping establish, grow, and invest in high-impact organizations as an entrepreneur, social entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and head of a private foundation. As Chief Strategy and Finance Officer at Results for America, Laura led the spin-out from an incubator. Prior to RFA, Laura spent 10 years in India, as founding Executive Director of a private foundation and co-founder and CEO of an entrepreneurship education nonprofit that grew to partner with over 500 academic institutes. Laura received her BA and her MPA from Harvard, and is currently Treasurer of Harvard Alumni for Climate and the Environment. Her home in Wellfleet abuts the Herring River Restoration Project.

A licensed independent social worker, with a specialty in addiction therapy, Dale has spent 40 years as a therapist, working for the past 13 years in Provincetown. She has a deep background as a volunteer for not-for-profit organizations. A member of the Board of Wellfleet Preservation Hall, she has assisted in its major fundraising campaigns. Dale is a Trustee Emerita of the Pennfield School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Abutters to the Herring River, Dale and her husband look down from their home in Wellfleet to the mouth of the river.

Susan has been coming to the Cape since 1968. She has been a seasonal resident of Wellfleet since 1990, and was one of the founders in 2000 of the Wellfleet Seasonal Residents Association (a/k/a Nonresident Taxpayers Association), and has served as its president on and off for more than a decade.  She now is on the board of the Wellfleet Community Forum, and previously was on the ACLU of Massachusetts Board of Directors.  Before she became “repurposed not retired”  in 2017, Susan was the McLean Professor  in the History of Ideas and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College, where she taught for 34 years.  She is known for her work as a women’s health activist and in women’s history, history of public health and ethics, and history of medicine/nursing. Her books (many of them written in Wellfleet) include: Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing; Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and its Legacy; Co-Conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman. Her research and activism led to apologies by both Presidents Clinton and Obama for immoral U.S. research studies in Tuskegee and Guatemala.

David is Adult Programs Teacher Naturalist with Mass Audubon Cape Cod. In this role, he works to develop and deliver environmental education programs to students across Cape Cod. Prior to his current role with Mass Audubon, David taught environmental education programming at the NEED Academy, a residential environmental education program in Truro, MA, that provides week-long experiences in the Cape Cod National Seashore for local grade 5 students. David also worked as an interpretive park ranger with the Cape Cod National Seashore for six seasons.

Philip is Special Advisor with The Nature Conservancy in Arlington, VA. He served as the Conservancy’s General Counsel from 2003 to 2013. He has also held other positions in TNC in the areas of land protection, government relations, compatible economic development and conservation planning. He has also worked to secure tax policy and legislation changes for conservation at the US Federal and state levels of government, as well as in other countries. Prior to TNC, he practiced law with a private law firm, worked as an attorney for a government water resources management agency and was an attorney with an environmental consulting firm. He is a member of the Board of Directors of The Potomac Conservancy and a member of the American College of Environmental Lawyers. He teaches a summer course entitled “Ecosystem Conservation Strategies” at the Vermont Law School.