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A resident of Tisbury. She served as a director of Sheriff’s Meadow from 2010 until 2020 and, after a brief hiatus, rejoined the Board of Directors in 2021. A graduate of Williams College and Columbia University Graduate School of Business, Susannah is president of a family-owned land company. Her primary interests focus on conservation, historic preservation, education and the arts. Having served as a trustee of the Episcopal School, The Chapin School and Groton School, she currently serves as a member of the Visiting Committee of the Williams College Museum of Art. With long term ties to the West Chop community, she recently was appointed to the Tisbury Master Plan Steering Committee.

Was Co-Founder and Managing Director of CornerStone Partners LLC, an asset management firm for endowment and foundation clients, from which he retired in 2018. Mr. Brooks is a member of the boards of: Sentara Healthcare, Norfolk, Virginia; and Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation, Tisbury, Massachusetts. Prior to establishing CornerStone in 1997, he managed his own private equity firm, Naushon Capital LLC, Boston through which he participated in the acquisition, financing or restructuring of companies in a variety of businesses ranging from sophisticated medical research to high technology and innovative sports equipment manufacturing. Before establishing Naushon Capital, Mr. Brooks was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Mr. Brooks graduated from Harvard College and received his MBA degree from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and MA (Administration and Policy Analysis) degree from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education.

Alec and his wife Sally moved full time to the Vineyard in 2019, coincidental with his retirement from Harding Loevner, an asset management firm in New Jersey where he was a portfolio manager and a partner. The restorative power of the outdoors and hiking have been a constant in their lives and those of their three children, with Jockey Hollow National Historical Park in New Jersey, the AMC huts in the White Mountains and the trail system here on the island all being an important part of their daily routine. His formative years were spent on Chappaquiddick before buying a house, in 2010, in Chilmark between Quitsa Pond and Squibnocket Beach. Alec is also a trustee of the Martha’s Vineyard Community Foundation.

Born and raised on Martha’s Vineyard and has lived on the Vineyard most of his adult life. He is a civil and environmental engineer at Schoefield Barbini and Hoehn. Chris served on the SMF board from 2008-2018, as President of the Board for three of those years. He returned to the board in 2020.

Director of the Program for the Human Environment at The Rockefeller University, began his career as a resident fellow of the Climate Research Board of the US National Academy of Sciences, for whom he helped organize the first UN World Climate Conference in 1979. Since 1989 Mr. Ausubel has served on the faculty of Rockefeller, where he leads a program to elaborate the technical vision of a large, prosperous society that emits little harmful and spares large amounts of land and sea for nature. In the late 1990s Mr. Ausubel initiated the first global Census of Marine Life to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in all oceans. He now advances use of naked DNA in seawater for low-cost, easy surveys of marine life that do not disturb the animals. Mr. Ausubel is an adjunct scientist of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and member of the Council on Foreign Relations where he serves on the board of Foreign Affairs. A deep sea lobster, Dinochelus ausubeli, and genus of Bryozoa (small aquatic invertebrates), the Jessethoa, are named in his honor. His family began summering in Oak Bluffs in 1955.

Is a trusted business advisor to iconic branded businesses and has served as an operations focused C-suite executive reporting to the Board of Directors. She is Assistant General Counsel with S&P Global, Inc. Janet is an experienced corporate and commercial attorney with expertise in information privacy and cybersecurity. She was a 2022 Fellow of the Economic Club of New York. She is a thought leader and won 2nd Place in the 2022 Inaugural Economic Club of New York’s Innovation and Social Impact Challenge. Her White Paper was entitled, Unleashing the Power of Climate Markets Will Drive Privacy ESG Risks: Is Your Board Seeing the Iceberg? She began her legal career in private practice in the corporate, finance, and securities departments of Dickstein Shapiro and Verner Liipfert (now DLA Piper).

Previously, Janet served as Executive Director of The Links, Inc., an international non-governmental organization (NGO), and is a member of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., a national organization for Black parents and children. Janet has received a Special Achievement Award from the U.S. Department of Justice. Janet is a resident of Washington, D.C., and summer resident of Oak Bluffs, where she is a member of the Cottagers, Inc. Janet’s Oak Bluffs family roots extend for nearly 30 years. She appeared on Voice of America, “Next Steps with Chris Meeks” and was S&P’s 2021 Juneteenth Day Speaker discussing her father’s, LTC (Ret.) William Baker, book. The Brownsville Redemption: Theodore Roosevelt’s Wrongful Disgrace of the All-Black 25th Infantry in Brownsville, Texas, 1906.

Is an independent consultant to foundations and family offices implementing impact investing strategies. His areas of work have included sustainable forestry and agriculture, blue economy, energy transition, carbon and other mitigation markets, and the circular economy. Previously, Larry worked as an investment banker advising corporations and investors on a wide variety of strategic and financing transactions. In addition to serving on the Sheriff’s Meadow board, Larry is a board member of the Conservation Strategy Fund. He has also served on the boards of the New England Forestry Foundation and the California Fisheries Fund. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Larry graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Business School. He and his wife Janet divide their time between Martha’s Vineyard and New York City.

Is a registered architect in New Jersey with a small residential practice in the Princeton area. Barbie received both an AB and a MArch in Architecture from Princeton University. She has more recently scaled back her business and now spends half her time volunteering in the fields of education, conservation and the environment.

Barbie serves on the board of Middlebury College. She served on the Board of Princeton Day School for seventeen years in various roles culminating as the Board Chair from 2012-17. She is currently an emerita trustee of the school. She serves as Chair of the Board of the Watershed Institute in Pennington NJ, a regional environmental group dedicated to keeping water clean, safe and healthy. She is on the Princeton University Advisory Council. She also serves on the Chappaquiddick Advisory Committee of the Trustees of the Reservations.

Barbie is a passionate amateur landscape designer and gardener. She has designed extensive perennial and vegetable gardens at her family’s homes. She also manages woodlands, meadows, and fields on their 120 acre farm in Hopewell NJ, and coastal ponds, wetlands, sandy moraines and native fields on their properties on Chappaquiddick. Other interests and hobbies include cooking (using the produce from her gardens and chickens), travel, hiking, art and architectural history, and collecting.

Is a resident of Vineyard Haven and is a certified public accountant. She served on the Board of Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation for 10 years, from 2012 to 2022, and chaired our Accreditation and Audit Committees. Susan led the effort for Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation to adopt the Land Trust Alliance Standards and Practices and led our first effort to attain accreditation with the Land Trust Accreditation Commission. Susan has been involved in Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation for decades, as her late husband, Steve, was President of Sheriff’s Meadow from 2006 to 2008 and served on the Board for years prior. Susan serves on the Board of the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, and in 2021 she was awarded the Excellence in Leadership Award from the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association. A graduate of Middlebury College, Susan spent much of her life in Vermont, where she and Steve raised their family and were active in their professions and in the community. Susan served as the Secretary of Transportation and was the first woman to serve as the Secretary of Transportation in Vermont.

Moved to Martha’s Vineyard in 1990. He and his wife, Rebecca Miller, own and operate North Tabor Farm. They also have three children who were born and raised on the farm. Matthew recently retired from the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank after 27 years, much of those spent as their property foreman. He has a strong interest in regenerative agriculture and progressive land management practices aimed at healing or mitigating the impacts of concentrated human activity on conservation lands.

Is a Senior Managing Director with Manatt Health, the integrated consulting, policy, and legal division of Manatt, Phelps, and Phillips, a leading national law firm. Tom works with academic health centers, medical schools, and children’s hospitals on the unique organizational, financial, and operational challenges posed by academic medicine. Tom is a graduate of Phillips Exeter, the University of Chicago (A.B.) and the Yale School of Management. For many years Tom served as a director of the Forest Stewards Guild, of Santa Fe, NM which practices and promotes responsible forestry. Tom and his partner Elise Thoron are avid walkers, and for the last 25 years have appreciated the variety and beauty of the Island’s trails, and are committed to the future ability for all to roam widely on this special land.

Has been providing quality property services to discerning clients, both on Martha’s Vineyard and elsewhere, over the past thirty years. As an individual with island roots many generations deep, Matt’s integrity and reputation are well known and he considers them to be the foundation on which he stands. His reputation for being dependable, honest, trustworthy and detail-oriented has led to a clientele built primarily upon referrals from existing clients.

Matt was born at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, was raised in Vineyard Haven, and attended the Tisbury School. He graduated from Proctor Academy in Andover, NH in 1994, then continued his education at the University of New Hampshire’s Thompson School of Applied Science. He earned a degree in Urban Forestry and in 1996 became a Certified Arborist.

Since the age of 14, Matt has worked actively in the green industry, and currently is the Owner of M.B. Flanders & Company and Operations Manager of Beetlebung Tree Care. He is an ISA Board-Certified Master Arborist and a MA Licenced Pesticide Applicator. He also holds a MA Unrestricted Construction Supervisor’s License and was previously an IA Certified Irrigation Contractor. Matt oversees the daily operation of Beetlebung Tree Care and the completion of all projects, some with total costs in excess of 1.25 million dollars. He is responsible for the oversight of 25-30 employees, fleet management, facilities maintenance, logistics, hard-goods purchasing, green-goods purchasing, and project scheduling.

Is a landscape designer with an emphasis in resilient ecological design. In addition to becoming a certified soil consultant, her education has taken her across the country and the world, studying permaculture design and regenerative agricultural systems. At the core of her philosophy is a mission to encourage people to look at their environments holistically, while incorporating elements of time-honored design through reconnecting with and reinforcing our sacred relationship with the natural environment. Gayle is a year round resident of Martha’s Vineyard, and founder of the island-based landscape design company Gayle Gardens. Tara is a lead designer with United Designers; an intercontinental team seeking regenerative solutions for large scale projects. She has an Advanced Permaculture design certificate from Holland, and a BA in Studio Arts from Marymount Manhattan College

Is the third of five generations to summer or live year-round on Chappaquiddick. His grandparents (the Bunker family) purchased land on what is now called Snow’s Point (correctly renamed by the Town of Edgartown), and fostered a love for Chappy that continues. Over time, and as the family expanded over the years, they eventually looked to Sheriff’s Meadow to help resolve some of the generational issues that often arise. Peter enjoyed working on Wall Street for 41 years. He found Nexstar Capital Partners in the fall of 2003, a firm focused on distressed investing, primarily in Latin America, after having been head of global investment banking for Latin America at Deutsche Bank. Peter held the same role at Bankers Trust Company in addition to overseeing the project finance business there. He is a former Chair of Electro Dunas in Peru, and served on the board of GPU Argentina Holdings. Peter is a past co-president of the Chappaquiddick Island Association, former treasurer and board member of the Featherstone Center for the Arts, a past trustee and vice-president of the board for the Kent School in Connecticut, and former chair of Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation. He currently sits on the board of Argan, Inc., a NYSE listed company whose primary business is to provide a full range of construction and related services to the power industry. Peter graduated from Williams College with a B.A. in American Civilization. He shares a lifelong commitment to conservation on Martha’s Vineyard

was born and raised on Martha’s Vineyard and is now a seasonal resident of Edgartown. She grew up horseback riding at Crowhollow Farm and running cross-country and track at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. Megan remains closely connected to the Island and enjoys spending time on the water with her husband and children.

is a 50-year seasonal visitor and resident of Martha’s Vineyard.  She is looking forward very much to rejoining the Board of Sheriff’s Meadow, where she was previously Treasurer.

Terry is a graduate of Vassar College and received an MBA in Accounting from Hofstra University on Long Island.  After business school she worked as a tax accountant for BDO and earned her CPA.  She then joined her husband Wes’ investment partnership in New York City and earned her CFA.  She continues to work with Wes in their Family Limited Partnership. Terry has served on the Board of Miss Hall’s School in Pittsfield Massachusetts and is an active member of the Lost Tree Foundation in Florida.

Growing up on Long Island and spending every summer in Chilmark with Wes and their children, Sandra and Jeff, Terry has developed a strong interest in land preservation, conservation and maintenance. She is thrilled to be rejoining the Sheriff’s Meadow Board and hopes to make a strong contribution.

Holds a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and holds a B.A. in English from Monmouth University. In 2004, she founded and chaired the Southern Women’s Campaign School, a non-partisan organization that provides training and information for women seeking to run competitive campaigns. In 1995, she founded the Center for Regional Cooperation in Philadelphia and directed the Center from 1995 to 1998. Ellen served as a Pennsylvania State Legislator from 1990 to 1994, during which time she served on many committees, including: the Local Government Committee, Urban Affairs Committee, State Government Committee, Health and Welfare Committee, as well as the Pennsylvania State Planning Board. She co-authored the Pennsylvania Land Use Plan and also the Federal Standards for Manufactured Housing. Ellen and her husband, Ed, reside in West Tisbury and also in Charleston, South Carolina. She has served on the boards of many charitable organizations, including her current service at the Gibbes Museum of Art. Ellen served on the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation Board from 2013 to 2023

Has been coming to Martha’s Vineyard since before she could talk, and it continues to be her favorite place on the planet. When she’s on island, she tries to jump in the ocean every day, explore the walking trails and try every restaurant that serves breakfast. She’s currently the founder and CEO of Finch, a company that helps educate consumers on the environmental footprint of their purchases and incentivizes them to make better decisions. She has a BA from Middlebury College and an MBA and Master of Environmental Management from Yale. Lizzie is originally from Shaker Heights, Ohio and currently lives in Denver.

Grew up in Turkey and after living in London, she now resides in New York City along with her husband Blake and their three children. She discovered Martha’s Vineyard while in college and became a seasonal resident in 2007. Sevda worked in advertising agencies – TBWA Chiat Day in Los Angeles and Fallon London for 15 years creating television campaigns and marketing communications plans for brands such as PlayStation, Orange, and Cadbury’s. Her young family considers the Vineyard to be their constant “home” and have hiked nearly all of the Sheriff’s Meadow trails and enjoy sailing and long beach days.

Is Chief Development Officer of Burford Capital, the leading provider of legal finance. Travis previously co-founded and was Managing Partner of a national law firm and its European counterpart; he also launched a litigation-related investment advisory business that Burford later acquired. Before starting his own enterprises, Travis was Senior Counsel at The Boeing Company and an attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Travis was a law clerk for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy at the Supreme Court of the United States and for then-Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He was born and raised on a farm and ranch in rural Kansas, but is now based in London and Chilmark with his wife and their two children.

From Edgartown is the president and founder of Millers Professionals Group. Millers Professionals is a group of three companies, specializing in construction, landscaping, and pools. His company employs 80 people and is one of the largest such companies on Martha’s Vineyard. Chris founded the company in 2002 and his business has steadily grown. In 2023, Chris received a “40 under 40” recognition from the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce. A year-round resident, Chris came to the island from Brazil, and is very involved in the community, including local churches, schools, and sports organizations. Chris serves on the Board of the YMCA of Martha’s Vineyard. He is active with his children’s sports and is a regular presence on the soccer field sidelines during busy workweek afternoons. Chris loves the outdoors and understands all the effort that goes into good stewardship of conservation properties.

Has served as the President of Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation since 2022 and was Executive Director from 2008 to 2022. Prior to his service with Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation, Adam was the Executive Director of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association, Land Superintendent for the Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank Commission, and a forester for Connwood Foresters. He earned a Master of Forestry degree from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in 1995 and a B.A. in Biology from Yale College in 1992. Adam was introduced to Martha’s Vineyard by his wife, Melissa. He and Melissa have four children – Madeleine, Isabel, Ingrid, and Huck – all of whom grew up roaming the woods and fields of Quansoo Farms

Is a third generation islander of Cape Verdean descent. She is a MVRHS graduate (Class of ’81) and earned a BA from College of the Holy Cross (Class of ’85). Upon joining the Jesuit Volunteer Corp (JVC), Wanda travelled to Los Angeles and worked as an inner-city, elementary Catholic school teacher, Principal, team coach, and community advocate. Wanda received her Master’s of Social Work (MSW) from California State University, Long Beach. She returned to live on the Vineyard full time in 2004. She has over 20 years of combined experience in Child Protective Services in Los Angeles and Massachusetts (MV). She is currently retired and resides in her family home in Vineyard Haven.

Brien and his wife Mary Hasten make their primary residence in Chicago but have been seasonal residents of Martha’s Vineyard since the 1980s. Brien is Chairman and CEO of Port Capital, a global investment management firm which manages domestic and developed markets global equity strategies. In addition to his career in the financial industry over the last 30 years, Brien has also been active in educational and conservation efforts. Brien is a Trustee of the University of Chicago where he also serves on the Executive Committee of the University. Additionally, he is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago Medical Center. Brien serves as a Trustee for Boston College and is a member of their Investment and Endowment Committee. Brien graduated with honors from Boston College with a B.S. in Finance and Theology. Brien previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation from 2010 to 2020. From 2017 to 2020 Brien served as President of the Board of Directors of the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation. During his tenure he initiated the Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation Capital Campaign which is concluding in December 2021. Along with other members of the Board, the staff of Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation, and the community, he was actively involved in the effort to secure Red Gate Farm, now Squibnocket Pond Reservation, which will be open to the public in fall 2022.

Was a partner, in New York and London, for almost three decades (and is now Senior Counsel) at the global law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. Bill and his wife Cassie Murray have been seasonal, and more recently permanent, residents of the Vineyard since 1968. They built a home near Cedar Tree Neck in the mid-1990s and now split their time between the Vineyard and New York City. In addition to being a director of Sheriff’s Meadow, Bill is a member of the governing boards (and executive committees) of The Posse Foundation and the Sundance Institute and was formerly chair of the board of trustees of Vassar College, a Commissioner on the U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Commission, and a member of the governing boards of the American School in London, the Conference of Board Chairs of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges and Global Citizen Year and a co-founder and director of the American Friends of the British Museum. He has also worked in recent years with partners on a venture to provide finance to African students at U.S. universities. Bill is a graduate of Vassar College and New York University School of Law, and was a Fellow in the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Bill and Cassie have three grown children who spent their childhood summers on Martha’s Vineyard and who return to the Vineyard as often as they can.

Is a year-round resident of Edgartown and a real estate attorney with the Martha’s Vineyard law firm of McCarron, Murphy & Vukota, LLP. As a child, Tom was introduced to the Island during summer visits, which were the start of his lifelong passion for boating and fishing. Prior to law practice, Tom spent over fifteen years as a saltwater fly-fishing guide based seasonally out of Martha’s Vineyard, the Outer Banks of North Carolina and the Florida Keys. A native of Medfield, Massachusetts, Tom received a BA from Boston College and JD from Suffolk University Law School.

Is an Emmy Award-winning media producer, Robin is a principal of Digital Laundry, a media production, studio and archiving services company based in New York’s East Harlem community, but now working remotely. A native of Los Angeles, she graduated from Stanford University (B.S. Mechanical Engineering) and the University of Southern California (Master of Urban and Regional Planning). While volunteering for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, she was invited to move to Lausanne, Switzerland to work for the International Olympic Committee. There, she spent three years as the English-language editor of the Olympic Movement’s monthly magazine, the Olympic Review. Robin then moved to New York in 1989 to work for ABC Sports, first as a features producer, then a programming executive. She was most recently the co-treasurer of the board of Civitas, an organization dedicated to addressing quality of life issues in East Harlem and the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and from 2017 to 2020, she served on the Board of Directors of the New York Junior League. She received the NYJL’s Outstanding Volunteer and Outstanding Sustainer awards in 1998 and 2019, respectively. Having purchased their Quansoo (Chilmark) property in 2004, and enjoying from long weekends to entire summers there, George and Robin moved to Chilmark full-time in early 2020. Currently, Robin is also a member of the Chilmark Town Affairs Council.

Serves as Vice Chair of the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia where she chairs the building committee. She has served on the board of directors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the Franklin Institute, the Avenue of the Arts, the International House and the William Penn Charter School. She graduated from the Design School of North Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Landscape Architecture. Prior to starting a family she was a banker with PNB, now Wells Fargo, in the investment management and trust divisions. Aileen enjoys summers in West Tisbury working on design projects, vegetable gardening, golf, and walking the trails on the island.

Is a lifelong educator and has taught and directed curriculum in English, Humanities, World Religions, and Latin to grades 6–12 in public, private, and charter schools. She received her Master’s in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and her B.A. from Duke. She currently serves on the boards of Tipping Point Community and Cathedral School for Boys, both in San Francisco, her home when she is not on island.

has summered since 1962 at his family retreat off of Lighthouse Road in Aquinnah. He studied at Putney School, UC Berkeley, the Université d’Aix/Marseille, and UCLA School of Law.  He was a partner at Irell & Manella LLP for three decades, where he focused on congressional redistricting, voting rights and intellectual property litigation.  As a second-year associate, he argued before the California Supreme Court on behalf of a delegation of California members of Congress.  In subsequent redistricting cases, he represented the Senate of the State of California, and the Los Angeles City Council.  A founding member of the board of the University of Southern California’s Intellectual Property Institute, Mr. Steinberg represented a broad range of industries, from semiconductor companies to film studios.  He serves as advisor and chairman emeritus of the board of iPalpiti Artists International, and on the board of Hear Now, each of which puts on classical music festivals in Los Angeles and in Europe.

Has been enjoying Martha’s Vineyard, where her family has a home in Chilmark, for the last 45 years. Carla started her career as a broadcast journalist in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Following that, she worked to improve educational opportunities for children as a policy advocate for high quality early childhood education in Washington, DC. In addition, Carla served on the leadership team that launched the educational programming brand, PBS KIDS, for Public Broadcasting Service. More recently, she worked for The Washington Post where she managed advertising promotions. Carla is currently Founder and Owner of Carla and Liv KIDS, which supports children and parents in the transition to preschool and kindergarten. She is a speaker on the subject and author of a book series, SCHOOL IS NEW TO ME: A Beginner’s Guide to Starting School, which includes bilingual (English-Spanish) versions. Carla holds a BA from Yale University, an M.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University (Medill School of Journalism), and an MBA from American University. She lives in the Washington, DC Metro area with her husband, daughter and rescue dog.

Serves as board member and senior advisor in the areas of digital transformation, artificial intelligence software and telecommunications. He was previously chief strategy officer at Motorola Corporation, responsible for corporate strategy, M&A, and One Motorola Ventures. Prior to Motorola, he was a Wall Street investment banker, a senior consultant at McKinsey & Co, and head of strategic planning at AT&T Information Systems. Samme presently serves on the board of directors for American Tower Corporation, is a trustee at the UChicago’s Marine Biological Labs, based in Woods Hole, and is a member of the Board at Pitt Business. Samme holds an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and a BS in electrical engineering from Prairie View A&M University. He and his wife, Janet currently live in Chicago, and are summer residents of West Tisbury.

Grew up coming to the Vineyard every summer with her parents and grandparents and now she and her husband and children have their own place in Vineyard Haven. Sara’s career has been focused on environmental conservation, including public lands management and water policy. She is currently a partner at Natural Resource Results, a consulting firm in Washington D.C. representing several non-profit conservation organizations. Prior to joining the firm, Sara served as a Senior Professional Staff Member on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. She worked for three consecutive Chairs – including Senator Bingaman, Senator Wyden and Senator Landrieu. Sara staffed the National Parks Subcommittee under the leadership of Senator Mark Udall from Colorado. Sara served as the Director of Government Affairs at Trout Unlimited before her time in the Senate. She received her master’s in environmental policy from the University of Michigan and a bachelor of science degree from Cornell University. She is originally from Philadelphia and now lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and children.

Amy and her family (husband John and 3 adult children) have called the Island “home” for thirty summers, returning as often as possible throughout the year. Passionate hikers, Amy and her family have always enjoyed the extensive trail systems and diverse topography that the Vineyard offers. As part of the Farm Group, Amy has recently taken on stewardship of Beetlebung Farm in Chilmark. She also serves on the board of the Smith College Art Museum and has recently rotated off the Board of the National Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in Washington DC where she served for 12 years.