Board

Join our board!

Fill out and email the application to Heather Stafford Gay (heather@historicgreen.org)
Duties of All Board Members:

• Determine, implement, and disseminate Historic Green’s vision, mission and values;
• Hire staff (if / when applicable);
• Ensure effective organizational planning;
• Ensure adequate resources;
• Manage resources effectively; including fundraising on the organization’s behalf
• Determine, monitor, and strengthen the organization’s programs and services;
• Enhance the organization’s public standing;
• Ensure legal and ethical integrity and maintain accountability; and
• Recruit and orient new board members and assess board performance

In addition, board members are expected to:

• Contribute knowledge and experience to help assure success of priority programs and needs of Historic Green;
• Help influence key players and sectors in the industry
• Help recruit new members for the Board, and new committee members for Planning;
• Serve on committees as needed including leadership positions;
• Help secure funding for Historic Green’s programs through sponsorships, corporate and charitable sources, and other significant sources of funding;
• Make a personally significant annual contribution to the organization;
• Abide by Historic Green’s conflict of interest policy;
• Attend board meetings regularly.
• Set, review, and approve the budget

Dunwoody College of Technology. St Louis Park, Minnesota

Heather, LEED AP BD+C, has been involved with Historic Green since she first heard of a call for Emerging Green Builders Local Leaders in 2007. She loves her husband, bicycle and dog, likes pulling weeds but dislikes mowing, and hopes to see Historic Green in cities all over the country.

BNIM, Kansas City, Missouri

Historic Green Co-Founder

Jeremy, LEED® AP, helped establish the Kansas City EGB committee in 2005 and quickly expanded his involvement as a volunteer leader with the USGBC at local, regional, and national levels, serving for 2 years on the Emerging Green Builders National Committee. Following a 2007 presentation about the struggle of community leaders to meet tough personal climate goals while rebuilding their homes, he was inspired to take action on behalf of the Lower 9th Ward. His favorite Muppets are Statler and Waldorf, though he identifies most with Kermit.

United Healthcare, Minneapolis Minnesota

Daynita works as an Associate Accounting Director. She has more than 7 years of reporting and accounting experience. When not having fun at her day job, she quilts, sews and bakes. A Minnesotan, she became involved with Historic Green when she learned of its respect for sustaining community heritage and passion for
education.

Mechanical Engineer and Sustainability Consultant, Henderson Engineers, Inc. , Kansas City, M.O.

One of the founders of Historic Green, Ryan has worked nationally to promote sustainable restoration in distressed communities. He has also served as a committee member of the Emerging Professionals National Committee of the USGBC from 2007-2010, and was elected committee chair in 2009. He served on the National Chapter Steering Committee from 2009-2010 and is a charter member of his local USGBC chapter. He was the Central Plains (formerly Kansas City) Chapter’s Outreach & Advocacy Committee Chair for 3 years, working to provide support services for Kansas and Western Missouri local municipalities, and he is the former Chair of the Buildings and Infrastructure Committee of the Kansas City Mayor’s Climate Protection Planning Initiative. Ryan has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Business from Kansas State University. He is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Kansas and has lectured on sustainability and green design at multiple conferences, schools and other institutions.

Kansas City, Missouri

Sarah has been involved with Historic Green since the first Spring Greening in 2007. Most of her work has been as a Volunteers Coordinator, culminating in her role as Manager of the Volunteers Team for Spring Greening 2011. Her personal goal with Historic Green is to provide positive volunteer experiences to inspire new volunteers to become lifetime leaders in their communities. A Kansas City native, Sarah holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Physics from Truman State University. She was a microscopy specialist for 2 years before starting work on her Ph.D. in Physiology at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, where she studies the basic processes that cause asymmetry in cells. She has a 1-year-old son who was a great help lifting drywall in New Orleans earlier this year.

Bayou Preservation LLC, New Orleans

Michelle is originally from Dallas, Texas, and recently moved to New Orleans to pursue her interest in historic preservation. She graduated from the University of Georgia in 2006 with a BA in history and art history, with an emphasis on architectural history. During her undergraduate studies, she worked with two historic preservation non-profit organizations. She received an MS in Historic Preservation from the University of Texas at Austin, and wrote her graduate thesis on the combination of historic preservation and sustainable design practices in post-Katrina New Orleans. While working on her Master’s degree, she participated in a preservation field school in New Orleans, in which she helped restore historic houses that had been damaged by Hurricane Katrina. From 2009 to 2010, she worked for a preservation architecture firm in Dallas, Texas doing architectural conservation and construction administration. She is very excited to be part of the Historic Green team.