Sustainable Seattle 2012

We are an energetic group of people who are passionate about making the world a better place. It is a fun and meaningful place to be!

Terri Butler, Ph.D.
Executive Director

Terri brings more than 20 years experience in managerment, market development, and research and invention to her role as the Executive Director. She is also a certified Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility Reporter and has just completed an Entreprenuer-in-Residence role at the University of Washington where she was co-founder of two start-up companies developing advanced material products and advised numerous others. Previously, she provided strategic counsel in her commercialization work with Washington State University’s biofuel, architecture school, and health science programs. She holds 13 U.S. patents, including coating technologies for electrostatic printing which she developed while an engineer at 3M and nutritional applications she worked on Bioenergy Life Sciences. Terri holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from Stanford University, a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science from the University of Minnesota, and a Certificate in Accounting from the University of Washington Foster School of Business

Maureen McGregor
Event Coordinator

Maureen is a graduate from the M.A. Environment & Community program at Antioch University, Seattle and currently provides Event Planning & Management for Sustainable Seattle as the Event Coordinator. Formerly a Program Development Intern in Higher Education with the Happiness Initiative, Maureen has the desire to shift our paradigm of health and well-being from dollars and cents to sense and holism. With a keen interest in ecopsychology, Maureen is also curious to understand how humans develop healthy relationships with their environments, how to increase widespread sustainable behavior, and in what ways a sense of community and belonging can aid in leveraging these goals. Maureen is passionate about empowering herself and others, while continually growing as a leader and an educator. Outside of Sustainable Seattle, you can find Maureen enjoying the practice of Bikram yoga, reading, cooking, journaling, being outside, and engaging with the local community.

Amy Waterman
Sustainable Rain Project Manager 

Amy comes to Sustainable Seattle with over fifteen years experience in the environmental field, working in the non-profit and local government arena on environmental advocacy, education, planning, and science.   Most of her work has been focused on water quality and watershed protection.  Examples of her work include helping to develop a protection plan for a bay off of Long Island Sound, doing wetland education and stormwater planning with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, enforcing environmental regulations for a town in the Hudson Valley of New York, and developing a curriculum for urban kids on the water cycle and water quality.  She has a masters in natural resource policy from Cornell University.  Since being an at-home mom and coming out to Seattle, she has done various volunteer positions, gotten a certificate in Wetland Science and Management from the University of Washington, and worked actively in her daughter's school, including a year bringing gardening to their mostly asphalt-covered school yard every Friday.   Passionate about the importance of the natural world in its own right as well as for human health and sanity, she would now like to broaden her work to deal with the intersection of social justice and the environment.   She would also like to bring the joy that the natural world can bring to those who have not experienced it and is very interested in urban agriculture as a way to do that.

Hannah Kett
Neighborhood Outreach Coordinator

Hannah Kett recently relocated to Seattle after earning a B.A. in History and at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  Currently, she serves as an Editorial Assistant for Ecosystem Marketplace, a news website focused on environmental markets.  In college, Hannah found her love of the work of local community organizations.  In her senior year, she worked as Grant Writer for the Eastown Community Association where she focused on a park re-vitality project.  Hannah is passionate about social justice, empowering individuals and vital communities—and loves telling the stories of people and organizations that are working for positive change in these areas.

Amy Kasprzyk
Communications Coordinator

After graduating with her Communications degree from the University of Washington, Tacoma, Amy wanted to continue to evolve with the growing sustainability movement. In her spare time off from her serving job, she helps Sustainable Seattle with their social media, press releases, and blogging. She craves environments filled with personal interaction, dynamic growth, and a never ending quest for learning. Her love of nature is experienced through photography, travel, painting, and exploring.

Jacqueline Cusliere
Dream a Sound Future Program Manager

Aven Frey
Event Coordinator and Indicator Researcher

Aven had the enviable experience of growing up in a small town in the mountains of New Mexico. She moved to Seattle last summer after receiving her MA in Environmental Policy and her MBA from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California. Within her graduate program she focused on development, trade, and sustainable agriculture, and during her last year of school she served as the President of the campus community garden. She earned her undergraduate degree from Grinnell College in Iowa and has studied in Senegal, Belize, and France. Aven loves to cook and garden and believes that healthy resilient food systems are the key to sustaining our bodies, communities, and shared planet. She enjoys all kinds of outdoor activities and movement arts, especially hiking, biking, snowboarding, yoga, and dancing, and has found Seattle to be enthusiastically abundant in all of these.

Dierdre Allison
Webmaster

Deirdre Allison graduated from Washington State University with a BA in Digital Technology and Culture in 2011. She knows all about visual communication and has experience in graphic design, social media, marketing, and technical writing. Over Summer 2009, she interned at seattlepi.com creating photo galleries, tracking social media and approving content to be posted to the website. She currently works for Clipper Navigation in web marketing support and will be creating graphic materials and developing communication for Pursuit of Happiness Day.

Brian Knox
Graphic Artist

Brian is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego with a B.A. in Urban Studies and Planning. He has a strong passion for programs that promote the idea of sustainable cities through education and policy. Brian believes that finding ways to create ation and change at a local level is the key to building sustainable neighborhoods. Brian also helps with graphics on Sustainable Seattle’s brochures and other materials.

Kevin O'Brien
Awards Program Manager

Bio is coming

Matt Wagshol
Community Gardens Connection

Marcella Van Oel
Web Content Evangelist

Marcella brings her esthetic, editorial and organizational eye to our web site. Her freelance career has been rich in web content writing and graphic design projects. She will be working to build social capital among our tribe of contributors so we can strengthen the reach of our communications and mutually grow our networks. As a writer on topics of sustainability, she seeks out thought leadership and role model efforts that propel community actions effectively.

Kinga has a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from Occidental College, California and an MBA from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. A native of Hungary, Kinga has witnessed the hardships and chaos of the Eastern - European economic transition from communism to a free market economy. Passionate about an ethical and 'humane' approach to capitalism, she developed an interest and expertise in corporate social responsibility and sustainability. By contributing to the Sustainable Seattle Business Hub, she hopes to affect positive change and help build a community of practice of local corporate social responsibility and sustainability professionals.