4 results for group: officers


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.

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Marge Atkinson

Marge Atkinson is the former Mayor and city council member for the City of Albany.

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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 ...

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Shirley Dean

Shirley Dean started her civic career in the late 1960s by working with Urban Care, the Berkeley-based organization dedicated to stopping the proposed construction of a large shopping mall on Santa Fe Railroad and other privately owned land on Berkeley's waterfront . That led to her appointment to Berkeley's Planning Commission in 1971 and to the original Waterfront Planning Committee which formulated the City's plan to create a waterfront park that included the privately owned land and the former Berkeley dump. She was elected to the Berkeley City Council on her first try for public office in 1975 and served several terms on the Council until 1982. ...

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