The Board of Directors of Sustainable Harvest International is made up of individuals from a variety of backgrounds and is very active in all major aspects of the organization. Their expertise in many areas, including tropical forest ecology and management, international environmental policy, sustainable development, non-profit accounting and agroforestry, is one of SHI's greatest strengths.

TONY BARRINGTON - Chair (1997)
Born in Ireland, Tony moved to New York for post graduate studies and later became a management consultant.  He moved to New Hampshire in 1990 and is a founding board member of SHI.  He founded AVA Chemical Ventures, L.L.C., which developed non-toxic pesticides manufactured from sugars and tropical vegetable oils.  He lives in Kittery Point, Maine, and is a passionate organic gardener.

TONY MARZOLINO - Treasurer (2011)
Tony Marzolino is the Senior Finance Officer at the CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity, which covers a 12 county region in Upstate NY. He has broad experience in all aspects of accounting and financial management with over 20 years experience in the non-profit finance field. Tony and his wife, Sue, own and operate Marz Farm, an organic farm in Berkshire, NY. The farm produces NOFA-NY certified organic hay, grown on 200+ acres of hayfields, sold as feed in 20 different states and through Organic Hay Co. for the small animal market. In addition, they produce organic vegetables, pastured pork, and free-range eggs. Tony is a current Board member on the Tioga County New York Farm Bureau and Pennsylvania Certified Organic.

TERENCE BARR - Vice-Treasurer (2010)
Terence currently works in the petroleum exploration field and is based in Houston, Texas. He has also spent many years in academics, teaching and doing research in geology and geophysics. He has lived overseas for half his life in Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe. He feels that providing education and training such as SHI does is the most important way to help people in developing (and developed) countries increase their quality of life and protect the environment for all of us.

MARTHA COPITHORNE - Secretary (2009)
After graduating from Pierce Law, Martha practiced law with her husband in Laconia, NH, with a primary focus on family law.  She became a marital master in 1991, a full time judicial position in NH, and retired in 2006.  In addition to serving on the Board of SHI, she serves on the board of Genesis Behavioral Health and is treasurer of the Dan Hole Pond Watershed Trust. She is active in the UU Fellowship in Plymouth, NH, and in the Circle Program as a mentor for young girls.   She first began supporting SHI after hearing Flo Reed speak at a local UU church.  She went to Honduras in 2004 with SHI.  Reducing rural poverty, empowering people, building community, and saving the rainforest make SHI a real win-win program that she is delighted to actively support.

BETSY AGLE - Member (2008)
Betsy started a Honduras Outreach Program with her husband twenty years ago at their Episcopal Church in Washington DC. Since that time she had led at least 5 youth service trips and made several other trips to Honduras in support of the outreach program. Betsy is particularly supportive of the Smaller World Trips and the possibilities these trips offer of fostering people-to-people contacts through non-tourist trips. Professionally Betsy has helped led a coalition working for clean air legislation, worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency on protecting indoor air quality in homes and commercial buildings, saving the ozone layer; and improving energy efficient through the Energy Star label.  Currently she is a personal fitness trainer. The Agles own a historic Appalachian farm in West Virginia and have worked to save its log structures and to put the forest into conservation easements while allowing sustainable forestry management.

DAVID BORDEN - Member (2006)
David was born in New Hampshire and raised on a farm in Vermont.  He served in the infantry in Europe and was a member of the Army's mountain rescue squad. In 1968, Borden founded the training firm, Victoria International Corporation. Prior to his business career, he worked as an Outward Bound instructor for the US Peace Corps and worked as a community developer in East Harlem, NY.  His publications include the book Perfect Service. David has been married to Nancy Horner Borden for 30 years. They have raised 7 children and enjoy 9 grandchildren who live in the area. Although the Bordens live on an island where the Piscataqua River meets the Atlantic Ocean, they spend their winters on an inland 300 acre tree farm, where they recently built a small off the grid house.  The Bordens have participated in volunteer agriculture and water conservation work in Niger, West Africa and Central America.

ERIC FERNANDEZ - Member (2010)
Eric has spent his adult life focused on biology, ecology, agriculture, development and education. From 1980 to present, he has participated in numerous UNEP Conventions and programs including the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna, Convention on Biological Diversity and Species Survival Commission (Crocodile Specialist Group). He has participated in the formation of conservation and development projects and NGO’s in Honduras, Belize, Mexico and other parts of the world exemplified by Fundacion Ecologista Hector Rodrigo Pastor Fasquelle (FHRPF), Friends of Nature Belize (FON) and the Tri-national Alliance for the Conservation of the Gulf of Honduras (TRIGOH). Eric Fernandez holds a bachelors degree in zoology with a minor in Anthropology and a Masters degree in Conservation, Management and Access to Faunal and Floral Resources. He has attained the European Union Certification of Advanced Studies and is presently working towards completion of his doctoral dissertation in a UNEP supported program in Spain. Presently, he has returned to the United States of America with his wife and three children and lives in Tampa, Florida. He is the Science Department Head at Terrace Community Middle School.

EMILY FULLER HAWKINS - Member (2011)
Emily Fuller Hawkins is a dedicated volunteer, passionate about helping non profits build capacity.  She brings wonderful energy and invaluable insight to the SHI board. Before joining the board of SHI in 2011, she served on the Governance Committee for a year.  In addition to her work with SHI, she is the current board president of the Pine Tree Society, a statewide agency that provides services to individuals with disabilities.  She has been the treasurer and a board member of the Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust in Orland, Maine since 2008.  And she has been the President and Trustee of the Deer Isle Consumer-owned Water Utility since 1999. In her own words:  “I had the pleasure of observing the work of and hearing from SHI FUCHOSO families in Honduras who are engaged in the income enhancement phase of the program. These families are empowered by SHI FUCHOSO field trainers to improve their lives by increasing their income through sustainable agriculture/small businesses and strengthening their communities through micro-lending initiatives guided by SHI.” Emily has a law degree from the University Of Maine Law School.  She practiced law in NH and Maine for 13 years and then became involved in running a property management company.  Since 1999, she has been the president of Jersey Realty and Investment Company. Emily has been a resident of Deer Isle, Maine since 1979.  She and her husband David have two grown children.  In addition to community service, she enjoys tennis, sailing and skiing.

ROBERT RICE - Member (2010)
Robert Rice works at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center (SMBC), conducting research and addressing policy issues related to migratory bird habitat and conservation. A central theme to Rice's research and policy efforts has been the management of tropical agroecosystems and their relation to ecological processes.

Over the last decade, he has helped develop and promote a set of scientifically-based criteria for shade coffee (the basis for the “Bird Friendly®” seal), an agroforestry system shown through ornithological research (conducted largely by staff at the SMBC) to serve as avian habitat. Rice's organizing of the 1996 "First Sustainable Coffee Congress" (held at the SNZP) and the 1998 “First International Workshop on Sustainable Cocoa Growing” helped place the SMBC on the map as a dynamic research group capable of acting as a catalytic force around conservation, agriculture, and the market place. Recently, Dr. Rice organized and directed a series of training workshops in Latin America and Indonesia, aimed at training organic inspectors in assessing shade tree cover in coffee systems.

AL SCHWENDTNER - Member (2011)
Al first heard about SHI from Flo Reed when he attended a conference at World Fellowship in Albany, NH. He is drawn to SHI for a multitude of reasons.  SHI assists low income people in Central America where historically “we have done more harm than good. SHI is a small organization doing a great job.”   Al gives generously to several organizations, and SHI is at the top of that list. Al is a retired ship designer who worked as a project manager and consultant.  Currently he is an unpaid board member of High Caliber Solutions, an IT service firm that serves small to medium sized business and non-profits, managing their internal networks and web sites and building data base applications customized to their needs. Al has three children and two grandchildren.  He lives in NYC with his wife Carole Wagner.  She is retired from U.S. Servas, Inc, a non profit that connects hosts and travelers through out the world.  Al and Carole have hosted over 600 people in their home through this organization.

JOY URBAN - Member (2011)
Joy’s passion for our planet and its natural resources was planted by her parent’s who took her fishing, wild flowering and walking in the woods starting at the age of two.  As a teacher in northern NH, she took her students on hiking, canoeing and cross-country ski trips through the White Mountain National Forest.  She and her husband, Steve, have bird watched, hiked and traveled in Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.  They’ve seen the devastation caused by slash and burn farming and it’s one reason why they love supporting Sustainable Harvest International’s work to reverse this trend.

Joy has a BS in Education from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA from Southern NH University.  She’s been a physical education and science teacher, information technology professional, trainer, human resources manager and success coach.  Currently, she’s a Brain-Body Learning Consultant developing and leading cognitive enhancements programs.  In addition to her work for SHI, she’s a member of the St. Johns County (Florida) Turtle Patrol and she mentors an FSU student through the Take Stock in Children (TSIC) program.

MIMI BECKER - Emeritus (1997)
Dr. Mimi Larsen Becker is an Associate Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy at the University of New Hampshire. B.A. Soc./Anthro. (Carleton College); M.A.: Environmental Policy & Resource Econ. and Ph.D.: International Environmental Policy (Duke Univ.) Teaching & research is interdisciplinary with a focused problem solving policy sciences approach. Research and teaching specialties include: ecosystem approaches for managing human-earth relations; sustainable development; institutional ecology and adaptive governance; public participation and engagement; environmental conflict resolution, integrated coastal ecosystem and estuarine watershed management, ecosystem health indicators, land conservation, community and environmental planning, environmental education and capacity building. Co-founder of UNH-EcoQuest, New Zealand Sustainable Resource Management Study Abroad Program; Collaborator with Tirimbina Rainforest Education Center, Costa Rica and a founding Board member and past board chair of Sustainable Harvest International. Currently: Coordinator of Community and Environmental Planning B.S. program and Coordinator of the professional M.S. program called TIDES (Training Program in Integrated Decision-making and Ecosystem Science) in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environmental.

JEFF CLARK, MD - Member (2005)
Jeff is a recently retired gastroenterologist from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and has been interested in developing countries ever since he was in medical school and spent his elective time working at a medical clinic in the hill country of Vietnam. His interest in SHI started when he attended one of Flo's presentations, which induced his first to support SHI's work financially and then to serve on the Board.  What particularly impresses Jeff about SHI is that it works on both the macro level to restore the environment and the micro level by empowering individuals to improve their lives, producing substantial results with relatively modest monetary investments.

IVOR FREEMAN, F.C.A. - Emeritus (2003)
Born in London England and now living in New Hampshire, Ivor opened his own office as soon as he qualified as a Chartered Accountant.  He specializes in handling international investments for a few select clients that keep him very busy.   Ivor has been involved in charitable matters since the age of 11 and is not hesitant to encourage others to give as generously as he does.  He says, "SHI is a very good cause and I am happy to get people to support them.  They need a larger donor base and our efforts have to achieve this."

SAMUEL KAYMEN - Emeritus (2000)
Samuel Kaymen grew up in Brooklyn, NY, but now calls Maine home.  He has studied BioDynamic Farming and served on the Board of the BioDynamic Farming & Gardening Association.  Samuel also founded the Northeast Organic Farmers Association and served as its President for twelve years. Samuel went on to found The Rural Education Center, an Organic farming school, but is probably most famous as President and Chairman of Stonyfield Farm Yogurt, which he founded in 1983.  Currently, in addition to his role on SHI's Board, he serves as Trustee of Southern NH University, on the Board of Overseers of the School of Community Economic Development and as Vice Chair of EARTH University Foundation's Board of Directors.

LEONARD SEAGREN - Emeritus (2010)
Leonard joined the Board of Directors in 2010 following the passing of his wife Diane, who had been a board member since 2005.  This significant woman brought enormous legal and practical direction to SHI.  Leonard was born and grew up in northern Minnesota.  He received a BA degree from the University of Minnesota at Duluth in 1962.  He then spent 20 years as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force.  Upon retirement, he and his wife Nancy became entrepreneurs in retail businesses in Portsmouth, NH: Federal Cigar, the Depot Restaurant, Significant Events catering, and ground transportation services.  At the turn of the century, following the passing of Nancy to breast cancer, he discovered international service and married Diane McCormack.  Together they joyfully immersed themselves in international service to developing countries around the world.  This brought them to Sustainable Harvest International.  They fell in love with Belize and built a second home there.  Subsequently they created the beginning of a tropical rain forest research farm, off the grid, in southern Belize.  Leonard plans to continue this project in the coming years.

FLORENCE REED - Ex Officio, President & Founder (1997)
Florence Reed got her start in agro-forestry as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Panama 1991-1993. She has also worked as a major gifts fundraiser for INFACT in Boston, and served as the Latin America Program Coordinator for Trees for the Future before starting Sustainable Harvest International in 1997. She has a B.S. in Environmental Conservation and International Affairs from UNH. She also underwent intensive Spanish-language and environmental extension training at the Center for Human Potential in El Coyol, Costa Rica in 1991.   Florence founded SHI in May 1997. (Related: Speaker Profile)