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Lauren Noel brings her background in both food and nutrition to the MEarth Board of Directors and is focused on expanding both adult and youth outreach. Lauren has been passionate about gardening and cooking since a young age, helping tend her childhood home garden in Kansas City and learning to cook from her mother. This passion has continued throughout her … Read More

With 30 years of experience in non-profit and foundation management, Carol Olson is dedicated to ensuring all young people have access to connect with nature and its many benefits. She founded Basecamp Strategies which partners with non-profit organizations and foundations to engage young people in the outdoors and advance environmental stewardship. Carol is also the network facilitator of the Environmental Education Funders … Read More

Meghan Macaluso, Founder and CEO of M Ventures Consulting, is a seasoned fundraising expert with over two decades of experience helping people and organizations raise millions of dollars to fuel positive change. Meghan specializes in leading complex fundraising programs and teams to growth, combining a strategic and data-driven approach with effective execution in dynamic and high-pressure environments. Originally from Colorado, … Read More

Brian was born in Carmel and grew up in the Carmel Valley where he attended the original Carmelo School, a two-room school house with 56 students in 8 grades. Brian graduated from Carmel High School in 1960 and Chico State College in 1964 with a degree in Business Administration. For the next 47 years Brian ran a successful business as … Read More

Cameron Leonard has devoted her career to bettering the world through nonprofit education. Currently, she is a partner at The Wildflower Foundation which helps Montessori teachers open their own schools, aiming to give all children and families the opportunity to choose high quality, beautiful learning environments. Prior to Wildflower, she was at Teach for America, heading up the Talent Acquisition … Read More

Todd is currently a managing director at Union Square Advisors and has spent the past fifteen years in a variety of roles in the legal and finance fields focused on technology firms. After moving to the peninsula in the late 1990s he graduated from high school locally before attending the University of California San Diego for his undergraduate degree in … Read More

Emily Reistetter is a local Holistic Health and Wellness practitioner and educator. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences and worked as a researcher in the fields of marine microbiology and climate change for nearly a decade. Emily became fascinated with the recent research in nutrition and completed a Masters degree in Holistic Nutrition in June 2023. Through her studies, … Read More

Brett Melone has been working with farmers in California and Latin America to support their business success and natural resource management, and leading nonprofit organizations that serve farmers for more than 20 years. Melone grew up in South Florida, where his father managed hundreds of acres of avocadoes, limes and mangoes, and his mother owned a tropical plant nursery. The beauty … Read More

John Long is the founder and CEO of JVL Designs. For nearly 30 years, he has been a visionary leader in creating projects that fuse architecture, art and nature. He specializes in creating outdoor community spaces that are functional, aesthetically beautiful and an integration of natural elements, like fire and water, and structural design. In addition to his vast residential work, … Read More

Erin Fogg has dedicated her career to making the world more equitable, prosperous, and just, working with a wide array of charities, philanthropists, government agencies, political candidates and elected officials. She is the Founder and Principal of Spoke Consulting, a Carmel-based communications firm that serves nonprofits and foundations across the nation. Erin brings a richly cross-cultural personal background to her work. … Read More