Board of Directors
Jack Marshall
Jack Marshall, PhD, ASAP 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.
Al Weed
Al Weed, ASAP Vice President and one of the founders of Virginia's modern wine industry in 1973, lives in Nelson County. A graduate of Yale and Princeton, Al served over forty-two years in Army Special Operations. He is past president of Rural Nelson, was a member of the Thomas Jefferson Sustainability Council and is currently vice-president of ASAP. He has led numerous local and regional organizations, including the Nelson County Historical Society, the Chamber of Commerce and the Thomas Jefferson Regional Library. He was Democratic candidate for the US Congress in Virginia’s 5th District and today serves as that District’s Trustee on the Virginia Land Conservation Trust.
Geoff Mattocks
Geoff Mattocks, ASAP 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
Elizabeth Burdash, ASAP 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
Dr. Richard Collins 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
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.
Laura Horn
Laura Horn 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 is a founder and director of Wondir, Inc., a live, interactive search service; board member of Poetry Daily; 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.
Tom Loach
Tom Loach R.N.,RPA, MEd is currently employed by the University of Virginia as a Systems Analyst developing clinical computer applications. Educated as both a Nurse and Physician Assistant he has over 20 years of clinical experience including a tour in Vietnam with the US Army. He has been past President of the Crozet Community Association, the Albemarle Neighborhood Association and served as a committee member on the County’s DISC committee.
Carleton Ray
Carleton Ray, PhD, is a Research Professor of Environmental Sciences at UVA. His professional activities focus on coastal-marine research and conservation, with a specialty in biodiversity. Carleton has sought to inform the public about coastal-marine science and conservation and has published widely for the general public. An emphasis on natural history has allowed him to work in polar, temperate, and tropical environments, often jointly with national and international bodies and with native peoples. Carleton has authored or co-authored 10 books and environmental data atlases, numerous scientific papers, reports, and abstracts in the fields of science, conservation and management, and more than 50 articles in popular magazines. Hugh Meagher is a native Virginian whose family has lived in the Commonwealth since Colonial Times. There is a family tradition of protecting and nurturing land and historic structures. He was educated at Tulane University, Virginia Tech, and the University of Virginia. For 30 years, Meagher has worked in the school business as a teacher and administrator. Presently, he is Director of Finance for the Miller School of Albemarle. Meagher and his wife Bridget have also owned and operated a restaurant and special events business in Roanoke since 1979. Meagher’s life-long commitment to land preservation motivated him to found Roanoke’s Greater Deyerle Association in the mid 1980s. Additionally, he served several terms as the association’s president. He and his wife have two teenage daughters.
Andy Wright
Advisory Council
Diana Abbott
Diana Abbott is currently working full time as the Operations Manager for Public Policy Virginia, a new 501-c-3 non-profit corporation focused on grass roots communication. She has a degree in Sociology. During and after raising two daughters, she worked as a preschool teacher and then substitute teacher in Fairfax and Albemarle counties. She has volunteered for two school systems, the Red Cross, Girl Scouts, and the Wildlife Center of VA. Currently she is very active in the Albemarle Democratic Party. She is a member of SFA, SELC, PEC and many world wide environmental and health organizations.
Gib Akin
Gib Akin is Professor of Organizational Behavior at the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia. He joined the faculty in 1976 after completing a PhD at UCLA. Dr. Akin also consults in strategic planning, organizational design and improvement, as well as team building. He has published extensively on team building and organizational change.
Jim Bonner
Pete Cross
Whitman ("Pete") Cross II, EdD, is a geoscientist who spent over 35 years in the eastern U.S. teaching the earth sciences at secondary and college levels and serving as the director of a natural history museum. His graduate work at the University of Virginia centered on determining the availability and location of ground water resources in western Albemarle County, VA, home to Charlottesville and the ASAP organization. Upon his return to this area, in 1998, he resumed an active role in educating the public as to the unique geologic conditions limited the availability of ground water and surface water supplies and the importance of limiting growth to prevent future water shortages.
Nick Evans
Nick Evans, PhD, is Chairman of the Thomas Jefferson Soil & Water Conservation District and President of Virginia Groundwater LLC, a water supply consulting and drilling company. He has worked for many years with State and local governments in the arena of sustainable water use and watershed protection. Most recently, Nick has orchestrated establishment of the Thomas Jefferson Water Resources Protection Foundation, which works with landholders to establish easements on lands critical to water quality. He lives with his family amid three streams and a pond on a small farm in northern Albemarle County.
John Hermsmeier
John Hermsmeier is a founder and director of the Environmental Education Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to linking educators and curricula to the people and issues of the Charlottesville/Ablemarle region as it strives to become a sustainable community. The seeds of John’s interest in making these connections were sown as he was growing up in Fairfax County, where opportunities for designing the relationship between people and nature disappeared as fast as the landscape. For John, ASAP represents an honest attempt to address the practical and ethical consequences of population as a major driver of our community’s capacity to chart, rather than simply passively await, its fate. Initially drawn to the area to pursue a degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia, John has made the conversion to a “townie” who recognizes that everyone is ultimately a “come here” with equal rights to define what a community will become.
Steve Jamme
Janis Jaquith
Janis Jaquith is a writer. Her radio commentaries have been broadcast locally on NPR-station WVTF since 1997. She's been heard nationally on PRI's "Marketplace," and NPR's "Day to Day." After six years as a columnist for The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, Jaquith's columns have found a new home at Charlotteville's weekly newspaper, The Hook. She is the author of Birdseed Cookies: A Fractured Memoir, a collection of her radio essays. Jaquith grew up near Boston, earned a BA from the University of Massachusetts, studied at the Sorbonne, and attended the University of Pennsylvania as a graduate student of linguistics. She has lived in Free Union since 1992.
Harry Levins
Over the last 30 years, Harry Levins has worked in management information systems, management consulting, and accounting. He spent several years as an analyst and project manager in Price Waterhouse's national retail management consulting division, specializing in geographic market and store location analyses. He received an MBA and a Master’s in Social Work from Ohio State University. He is a member of the Sierra Club, the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, and the Piedmont Environmental Council and has been appointed to a number of local government committees.
Mark Lorenzoni
Mark Lorenzoni has lived in Albemarle County since 1978. Together with his wife, Cynthia, Mark owns the Ragged Mountain Running Shop and spends a good part of every day helping exercisers (ranging from 6-90 years old) stay comfortably on their feet. A tireless community steward, Mark believes that a healthy community benefits everyone. He has served on numerous non-profit boards and committees and has directed several hundred running and racing events over the past two and a half decades. Mark feels fortunate to be living, working and raising his family in such a special place.
Marvin Moss
Marvin "Bud" Moss graduated from West Point and served in the US Army for over 10 years including a tour in Vietnam. He received his MA in International Relations while in the Army specializing in Sub-Saharan Africa. After leaving the Army, he embarked on a political career working first for a Democratic House member in Washington. From 1977-1995, he was chief-of-staff to Senator Paul Sarbanes (D.Md). He retired to his historic home, Glen Burnie, in Fluvanna County in 1995 and became active in heritage and open space preservation efforts in this region.
Deborah Murray
Deborah Murray is a Charlottesville resident and a senior attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center. SELC is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to protecting the natural resources of the Southeast through direct legal action, policy reform, and public education. Deborah received a B.A. in History with highest distinction from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the UVA School of Law. Prior to joining SELC in 1988, she worked as an attorney with a law firm in Washington, D.C.
Tom Olivier
Tom Olivier grew up in New Orleans and has resided in the Scottsville District of Albemarle County since 1981. Tom holds a BSc in biology and a PhD in biological anthropology. He has done research on genetics of mammalian populations in Africa, Australia and the Caribbean. Recently, he has been developing software with applications in conservation biology and raising sheep. Tom has served as president of Citizens for Albemarle and is a member of the executive committee of the Piedmont Group of the Sierra Club. He has represented Albemarle County on the Thomas Jefferson Sustainability Council. He is a member and 2006 chair of the Albemarle County Natural Heritage Committee.
John Stack
John Stack is a ten year resident of Albemarle County and a Real Estate broker with the largest firm in this part of Virginia. His wife is a Professor at the University of Virginia. Prior to moving to Virginia, John was a business consultant in Florida and earlier was a marketing and business manger for Fortune 500 firms in the U.S. and Latin America. Johns is a graduate of Northwestern University and also holds an MBA degree. He served in the Army National Guard in Illinois, California and New York.
Peggy Thome
Margaret “Peggy” Thome was born in Washington, DC, the day Roosevelt signed the Yalta Agreement. She lived in Denver, Woonsocket, SD, and Ogden, UT, graduating from Weber State College in Ogden. Peggy came home to DC, to work as an administrator in the U.S. Treasury, Navy, U.S. Information Agency, Peace Corps, and retired from USAID as Director of Administration in 2000. Peggy and her husband David bought the 163-year-old Perry Hill Farm in Buckingham in 1999 and Peggy began giving tours at Monticello in 2001. She has an avid interest in historical properties, and both Perry Hill and Peggy’s DC residence are National Landmarks.
Jane Williamson
Jane Williamson holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Radcliffe College and a graduate degree from the University of Virginia in Health Promotion. For the past 20 years, in addition to volunteering, she has been a self-employed health educator working in venues both local and out of town. While she has been a longtime supporter of various worldwide environmental organizations, increasingly her interests have turned to issues closer to home. Most recently she has been active as an officer in her neighborhood association which has been involved in a near decade- long struggle with developers. Both her birth and marriage families have owned businesses that have a combined history of over eighty years in 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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