Foothill
Collaborative
for Sustainability |
Officers:
President: Eric Taylor - Table Mountain Garden Eric Taylor, together with his wife, formed Table Mountain Garden, a successful market garden, in 1993. His knowledge of farming and love of food go back to his childhood when he traveled extensively in Europe at age 5, 10 and again at age 13. Eric’s desire to want to do something useful, and create positive social and environmental outcomes provided the platform for the creation of Table Mountain Garden. His interest in issues surrounding access to healthy food and community connection to the land, hold important insights for community sustainability.
Vice President: Josh Bridges - UCSC Community Studies A 25 year resident of Calaveras County. Currently a student at U.C. Santa Cruz in the Community Studies department (theory and practice of social change and organization). Came to FoCuS through a six month internship/field study. Graduates in June 2007, and plans to continue working with FoCuS.
Treasurer: Shaun Michael, Ph.D. Shaun is one of the founders of FoCuS and a resident of Calaveras County for 24 years. She spent 23 years in international and domestic research, development, sales and management in the adventure travel industry. She received her doctorate in Natural Health and currently works as a Naturopath.. Her vision is to see people connect with themselves and with the community.
Secretary: Karin Lubin Karin has been an educator and administrator for the last twenty years on the North coast of California and in the central Sierras. She holds a doctorate in education and has published on the subject of “servant leadership.” She and her husband (Randy Crutcher) co-founded Quantum Leap Coaching, a team approach to providing a unique year-long process to move individuals and groups towards greater empowerment, abundance, and joy. She shares an office in Murphys, CA with other well-being practitioners. Karin believes that how we sustain our passion and spirit are deeply
connected
and interwoven with environmental and social sustainability.
Board Members:
Christine Taylor - Table Mountain Garden Born in New Zealand with a background passion for climbing mountains and the outdoors. She graduated from Victoria University with a BA in Social Anthropology. After marrying Eric in 1990, she immigrated to California. Christine and her husband farm and manage Table Mountain Garden, a successful small farm in the foothills of the Sierra.
Jakob Jaggy, M.D. Jakob is a Swiss-trained physician with fourteen years of experience in Family Practice. He has dedicated his practice for the last seven years to a holistic/blended approach to medicine. Dr. Jaggy is a founding member of the American Board of Holistic Medicine.
Randy Crutcher, Ed.D - Quantum Leap Coaching Randy lived for 29 years on the North coast of California in a region dubbed “Ecotopia” by author Ernest Callenbach. As a college student he became involved with Earth Day, solid waste education and the state’s first non-profit recycling center. Through the seventies, eighties and nineties, he continued to activate a vision of sustainability through living more lightly in cooperative households and working in the non-profit and state sectors focused on education and conservation. His passion now is community and leadership development based on spiritual and ecological principles.
John Adams, Ph.D. - Saybrook Graduate School & Eartheart Enterprise John is a professor, speaker, author, consultant, and seminar leader – has been at the forefront of the Organization Development and Transformation profession since 1969. He serves in several administrative roles and teaches at the Saybrook Graduate School (San Francisco), and is also a guest faculty member at The Bainbridge Graduate Institute in the MBA in Sustainability program. He was among the first to work with "wellness in the workplace" -- beginning that work in 1976.
Karen Kallen – SMC Business Management Born in Honolulu, raised in Houston, Karen took root in the Sierras of Northern California by way of summer employment at Calaveras Big Trees State Park. A resident of Calaveras County for twenty-five years, she traveled extensively during her work with Sobek Expeditions, OARS and World Heritage Travel. Currently she is living in Sonoma County with her husband and is completing a degree in business at St. Mary’s College of California, however she continues to be drawn to the area’s increasingly precious natural beauty and the “curiously strong” character of its inhabitants.
Rhoda Nussbaum, M.D. - Kaiser Permanente Obstetrician/Gynecologist with Kaiser Permanente San Francisco will retire and become a full time Calaveras County resident in the summer of 2007. In addition to the practice of medicine, Rhoda has served in various leadership roles in Kaiser Permanente including Assistant Physician in Chief of the SF medical center and creating "Women's Health-Kaiser Permanente", an organization wide effort to maximize health care outcomes and quality of service to women and their families. She volunteers at a free women's clinic in San Francisco and at a hospital in rural India. She is excited to use her analytic and organizational skills in sustaining the beauty and grace of Calaveras County.
The Board back row: John Adams, Shaun Michael, Eric Taylor, Rhoda Nussbaum front: Randy Crutcher, Bob Wetzel, Christine Taylor, Karin Lubin not shown: Jakob Jaggy & Josh Bridges |
