Board of Directors
The Board of Directors of Sustainable Nantucket represent a wide cross section of the community, each of us with varied backgrounds and life experience. We are Native Islanders and “Wash-a-Shores”; year round and seasonal residents; lifelong inhabitants and recent transplants. The one thing we all have in common is our love for Nantucket and all that it offers, and the dedication to ensuring Nantucket’s future as a vibrant, sustainable community.
Dylan Wallace
Growing up on the far away island has instilled in me a deep respect for the world around us and the substance it provides. Islanders have the unique chance to understand how valuable resources are and what it takes to transport them from one place to the another. With this understanding we can learn from our past to always be improving our use, reuse, and recycling of what we consume throughout our communities. I believe that every action we make should protect and sustain future generations of people, animals, plants and all other elements that create the whole system of nature on earth. By keeping the next seven generations in our minds and hearts we can make a lasting difference and always maintain our perspective.
Trish Bridier
Retailer and Community Supporter
Having lived and worked on Nantucket for almost all of my life and served on several non-profit boards, I have seen many changes affect the island through housing density and population differences. Nantucket’s natural beauty still exists as well as the caring, generous character of its residents and visitors. The mission and activities of SN are important to the health of Nantucket and will touch everyone.
Heather Leisher Coffin
Business Owner – Landscaping; Mother
Being involved with Sustainable Nantucket has provided me with the ability to take action in the aspects of life that I am most concerned with, namely promoting small businesses, preserving the character that attracted me to Nantucket in the first place, promoting small farmers and farms and protecting the environmental integrity of this tender island. I am from a small town in Pennsylvania that has lost virtually all of its character, identity and small businesses as a result of big box stores taking up residence. I’m proud to be part of an organization that is committed to protecting our island from a similar disintegration.
Beth Davies
Mother
I felt a connection to Nantucket from the moment I stepped foot on the Island in 1980. Apart from the physical beauty, it appealed to my sensibilities. Whether by necessity or simple appreciation, people have long fought to preserve the integrity and beauty of the island. It seems that there has always been a community awareness to protect open space, maintain the Island’s historical fabric, and conserve the resources of the land and sea. Just think, all of these initiatives were in place way before it was fashionable.
Marsha Greenman
Designer and Environmentalist
Nantucket by virtue of its history, location and physical beauty inspires one to participate in its preservation. As an active board member of Sustainable Nantucket, my desire to help promote an environmentally beneficial and historically sensitive future can be intertwined. The promotion of a healthy economy, clean environment and aesthetically sensitive design strategy for our delicate island will guide us gracefully into the twenty-first century!
Wendy M. Hudson
Business Owner – Bookstore; Mother
I’m always attracted to proactive people and ideas, and SN has both. My experience at Bookworks, Cisco Brewers, and Bartlett’s Farm has left me with a strong sense of the importance of agriculture and small business to the fabric of the island, as well as a great love of Nantucket Town. SN’s work on behalf of these things is, I think, as important as efforts to protect open space and history, and will have a direct impact on our quality of life.
Anne Kuszpa
Mother; Town of Nantucket Energy Study Committee; Housing Nantucket
The natural beauty and leisurely pace of Nantucket make it easy to become smitten by its treasures, but beyond its surface are opportunities to get involved unlike any other. I joined Sustainable Nantucket because their programs brighten every day island life. Farmer’s Market, Youth Council, Community Garden, Think Local First, and the Film Series all demonstrate our mission: to preserve the community’s character while sustaining its environmental and economic vitality. In particular, I’m proud of our on-going work with the Town to increase the island’s energy independence. Our work is not possible without our supporters. Hope you are a member too!
Dave Provost
Head of School, Nantucket New School; Musician & Songwriter; Father
As an educator, artist, and “round-the-pointer” I have a tremendous interest in seeing Nantucket remain a place that is livable for people who would choose to make it their home and to participate in and serve this special community. As a teacher and a father of two young children, I am particularly interested in maintaining the island’s rich beauty, resources, and unique character for future generations.
Sam Slosek
Farmer
I fear that my children will not have to opportunity to know and experience Nantucket the way that I have and my father was able to. Change and growth are in inevitable part of living in a community as unique as ours, but SN works to foster programs and ideas that strengthen the fabric of our community ensuring a place here for future generations.
Laura Wasserman
Grant maker and Activist
Nantucket is such a special place—the beaches, historic downtown, our protected open space, and most of all the people. All of this create our unique and strong sense of community and make this island such a treasured place. I am proud to be on the Board of SN to help protect our history, preserve our community, and insure our future.
Mary Wawro
Lover of the Law
What I like most about Sustainable Nantucket is the opportunity to look both ways. Our organization understands the value of the history and tradition of our tiny island. Nantucket is at once a unique slice of American history — and we need to keep its spirit alive and well. At the same time, Sustainable focuses on the future and the need to adapt our ways to best protect and promote our special place — our fragile land and sea ecology as well as our business and community and our people. And — no matter how “faraway” we are geographically, we are confronted with the same issues that confront the rest of the planet. Sustainable’s programs — from the Farmer’s Market to Film Series to Think Local First to the Youth Council Garden — all give us an incubator for thought and action to provide good stewardship for our own resources and for the world’s.
