5 results for group: officers


Alan Carlton

Alan Carlton is a lifelong resident of the East Bay, an avid hiker 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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Sally Tobin

Sally Tobin grew up west of Port Angeles, Washington, within sight of Olympic National Park. She and her family spent many happy times in the Park, hiking, swimming, and fishing. She became a biologist and received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Her studies involved marine biology and embryology, and she became especially interested in how genes contribute to the changing shapes of cells and tissues during early development. Following postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco, she became a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. At Oklahoma, she taught genetics to medical and graduate students and ...

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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 45 years, leading the Sierra Club’s campaign to create the Eastshore State Park. In 2004 the Sierra Club honored him with its prestigious William Penn Mott Award, which is given to a Californian who has made an outstanding contribution to protecting and improving California’s State parks. He has been a pro bono attorney for Sierra Club, Golden Gate Audubon ...

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Arthur Feinstein

Citizens for East Shore Parks (CESP) is pleased to announce Arthur Feinstein as the newly elected President of the Board. Arthur’s career as an Environmentalist has been to preserve and protect habitat, wildlife and the environment in the Bay Area and in California. He has served as member, Chair, President, and Executive Director on many Boards including Golden Gate Audubon Society, Sierra Club SF Bay Chapter and San Francisco Bay Habitat Joint Venture. He was a participant in the successful effort to expand the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay Wildlife Refuge. Arthur has received numerous awards recognizing him for his environmental stewardship ...

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