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Tony Sustak
Tony is a longtime activist, who was recruited to join CESP in 2008, by former Executive Director, Patricia Jones. That relationship grew out of a common interest in the community activism and official meetings that were part of the rewrite of the City of Richmond’s General Plan.
In the past, Tony has been involved in union activities, advocacy for health care reform and the struggles against racism, sexism, and militarism.
Tony is one of the original members of the Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA) and remains active with the RPA. Tony is a League of American Cyclist’s, League Certified Instructor (LCI), and occasionally, helps more ...
Doris Sloan
Doris Sloan is a retired Adjunct Professor in the Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Berkeley. She has a MS in geology and PhD in paleontology, both from UC Berkeley. She taught in the Environmental Sciences program at UCB, and taught geology for UC Extension. She has led field trips for the Oakland Museum, Sierra Club, Yosemite Association, Pt. Reyes Field Seminars and other organizations. She also has traveled widely with Cal Alumni groups to the far corners of the Earth, including the Arctic and Antarctic, Nepal, Scandinavia, Russia, Central Asia, and South America, and currently leads trips to Iceland. Her research has focused primarily on ...
Jeff Inglis
Born in San Francisco and raised primarily in Berkeley, Jeff Inglis graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with a degree in Geography, served as a volunteer with the Peace Corps in Ecuador, and was employed as a Project Officer and a Site Assessment Manager with the Region IX office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in San Francisco, from which he retired in 2011. In addition to his service on the CESP Board of Directors, Mr. Inglis previously served as a member of both the North Richmond Shoreline Open Space Alliance (NRSOSA) and the Point Molate Restoration Advisory Board (RAB). He is a current member of the Community ...
Helen Burke
A 45-year resident of Berkeley, Helen moved here with her former husband John in 1971. She immediately became active in the Sierra Club and served in leadership roles at the local, state and eventually the national level. She was elected to the national Board of Directors of the Sierra Club in 1977.
In 1974 Helen was elected to four terms (16 years) on the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) Board of Directors, representing Ward 4, Berkeley, Albany, El Cerrito and parts of No. Oakland. Helen was the first woman and environmentalist to be elected. Although initially outvoted 6-1, over the years Helen successfully pushed for an inclining block ...
Ellen Barth
Ellen Barth has been a member of local environmental groups for many years, including the Audubon Society and the Sierra Club. A long-time bird watcher, she has taken part in bird monitoring programs for PRBO, Golden Gate Audubon, FWS, and North American Loon Fund. She has served on the Board of several small environmental groups. She was involved in science education for several years in Berkeley Public schools. As a docent at the California Academy of Sciences since 1978, Barth has served as lecturer, facilitator and trainer for new docents and helped develop the training courses. She served in many capacities, including Chair, on the Docent Council ...
Ed Bennett
Ed Bennett served as Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer of Citizens for East Shore Parks and has been involved with the organization since its early years. He was on the Berkeley Waterfront Commission for more than eight years, and prior to that he was on the Berkeley Recreation Commission for six years. He was a member of the Sierra Club's San Francisco Bay Chapter since 1949. He served on the executive committee as the chapter's treasurer for more than two decades and as chair for four years.
He was also a member of numerous environmental organizations. Bennett was a research scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1949 to ...
Teddi Baggins
Teddi Baggins is a home CEO and gardener. Teddi has been an active member of CESP and the Sierra Club's East Bay Public Lands Committee. She is the wife of David Baggins, former chair of the Political Science Department at California State University East Bay. She is the mother of two adult children.
Alan Carlton
Alan Carlton is a lifelong resident of the East Bay, an avid hiker and biker on the Bay Trail and an attorney. He has been an active member and leader in the Sierra Club at the local, state and national level since 1982.
Marge Atkinson
Marge Atkinson is the former Mayor and city council member for the City of Albany.
Norman La Force
Norman La Force is Vice-President and a founding member of Citizens for East Shore Parks. He has written a detailed history of the activists' success called Creating the Eastshore State Park: An Activist History. La Force has worked on San Francisco Bay environmental issues for close to 25 years, leading the Sierra Club's campaign to create the Eastshore State Park. As the current chair of the San Francisco Bay Chapter, he is the Sierra Club's long-time leader on issues concerning the East Bay Regional Park District and land management issues related to the large public land agencies in the East Bay. In 2004 the Sierra Club honored him with its ...