Who We Are
Steering Committee:
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Allyse Heartwell, Media & Outreach Coordinator | E-mail Allyse holds a B.A. in International Relations from Brown University, where her studies focused on international environmental issues. She works on media and community outreach for Bay Localize and serves on the Steering Committee. A relatively recent Bay Area transplant, she now focuses her interest in sustainability on the local level and is involved in many activities relating to peak oil, urban agriculture, and localization. She lives in San Francisco, where she gardens, tends her chickens and walks a lot. |
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Aaron Lehmer, Strategy & Communications Consultant | E-mail Aaron provides strategic support to Bay Localize's ongoing programs, serves on the Steering Committee, maintains the organization's website, publishes Bay Localize News, and serves as a spokesperson for the localization agenda. Aaron holds an M.A. in Globalization and the Environment from Humboldt State University and a double B.A. in Anthropology and Philosophy with a secondary degree in Environmental Studies from Iowa State University. He also works for the Ella Baker Center's Green-Collar Jobs Campaign, and has worked for Circle of Life, Earth Island Institute, Grassroots Globalization Network, ReThink Paper, and with the Student Environmental Action Coalition. His commentaries have been featured on AlterNet and NPR, and in the Earth Island Journal, Sacramento News & Review, and the S.F. Bay Guardian. Aaron lives in Berkeley and is an avid gardener and hiker. |
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David Room, Local Clean Energy Organizer | E-mail Dave co-founded Bay Localize and now serves as coordinator of the Local Clean Energy Alliance. He also provides strategic program support and serves as a project spokesperson. Dave holds an M.S. in Engineering-Economic Systems and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He is the founder of Energy Preparedness, a member of Oakland's "Oil Independence" Task Force, an interviewer for Global Public Media, as well as a frequent lecturer. Dave is the author of the forthcoming Stardust Localizing! Active Participation in the Conscious Evolution of Economy and Culture. His articles have appeared on EnergyBulletin.net and OpenDemocracy.net and in the Planning Commissioners Journal and Urban Age Magazine. He lives in Oakland. |
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Nile Malloy, Steering Committee Member | E-mail Nile is a movement builder and organizer committed to social, economic, and ecological justice. He is currently a Freedom from Oil campaigner at Rainforest Action Network working to reduce US oil addiction by pushing automakers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to curb global climate change and adopt cleaner technology, while supporting green labor. Outside of campaigning against big corporations on environmental standards, criteria and policy, he is deeply invested in local solution-based projects in the Midwest and in the Bay Area to revitalize urban centers. He also has wide-ranging background as a teacher and has taught at the New College of California in the Activism and Social Change Program. He holds a B.A. in Urban Anthropology and African American Studies from the University of Michigan and an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Social Transformation with a focus on local and global environmental justice projects. An aspiring writer and poet, Nile resides in Oakland. |
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Kirsten Schwind, Programs Coordinator | E-mail Kirsten is a food policy analyst living in Berkeley. She helps coordinate Bay Localize's participation in the Local Clean Energy Alliance of the East Bay, and focuses on organizational development, budgeting, fundraising, and project support. She also serves on the Steering Committee and offers research and policy expertise to the team. Kirsten has focused on food security, food sovereignty, trade, land access, labor conditions, and sustainable agriculture with several Bay Area nonprofits, including serving as Food First's program director. She holds a B.A. in Economics and a Masters of Science in Natural Resources Management, and is fluent in Spanish. |
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Ingrid Severson, Lead Organizer, Rooftop Resources Project | E-mail Ingrid is an organizer and project leader and serves on the Steering Committee. She gained experience in the environmental field through undergraduate studies at San Francisco State and New College of California. She pursued a hands-on approach to Deep Ecology with extensive travels and environmental programs in Latin America. Ingrid is a certified Permaculture Designer and is competent in Spanish. She has worked with Sonoma County Conservation Action, the Sierra Club Bay Chapter, and independently in various video productions promoting environmental awareness . She has also held a professional therapeutic massage practice for eight years. Ingrid lives in Oakland and enjoys exploring the natural treasures within the Bay Area. |
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Katherine "Kat" Steele Kat is a permaculture activist, designer, educator, and founder of the Urban Permaculture Guild in Oakland. She facilitates workshops on natural building and permaculture as well as publicly speaks about eco-social design, city repair, and the power of placemaking. Trained in Ecovillage Design with the Findhorn Foundation of Scotland, Natural Building with Kleiwerks International, and Permaculture Design with the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, she also holds an MA in Creative Arts from San Francisco State University. She presently serves on the board of another Bay Area nonprofit organization devoted to peace, justice, and sustainablity, the NorCal Chapter of Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) in Berkeley. She recently became one of a 1,000 Climate Project trainees, empowered to present a version of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth slide presentation. Kat lives in Oakland and is devoted to localization, believing it to be a key strategy towards sustainability and thriveability. |
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Kevin Bayuk Kevin started as an artist and filmmaker, explored an eight year meander as a technology entrepreneur (in an attempt to fund films) and has now graduated into a life as an activated advocate for ecotopian living. Currently he leverages his skills and relationships to develop organizations and projects that regenerate healthy ecosystems and socially just environments. In addition to advising Bay Localize, he serves on the Board of Directors for the Urban Alliance for Sustainability and Daily Acts. Kevin also facilitates permaculture trainings and shares his skills in organic gardening and composting in playshops and community workshops. |
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Dan Antonioli Dan is a green construction specialist with over twenty years of experience in general construction and ten years in ecological design, alternative construction, and green building. He has a background in green building, natural building, permaculture, and ecovillage design and development. He's a licensed general contractor, a registered green builder with Build It Green, and has memberships with the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), the American Solar Energy Association, the Northern California Solar Energy Association, and the Eastern Oregon Renewable Energy Association. He's currently creating an inner city ecovillage in Oakland and a five parcel intentional community in Laytonville, California. |
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