Meet the Board of Directors
WNYEA maintains a 9-15 member board with seats elected each year for service in a two-year term.
Board Officers include the positions of Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer.
Board candidates for the 2022 slate of elections are identified.
Board Officers include the positions of Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer.
Board candidates for the 2022 slate of elections are identified.
JAY BURNEY
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JESSICA GILBERT
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ANDREA O'SUILLEABHAIN
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LYNDA SCHNEEKLOTH
Lynda is Professor Emerita of the Department of Architecture, University at Buffalo/SUNY and 2019-2021 Chair of the WNYEA. Throughout her career she has worked to connect environmental and social activism, design practice, teaching, and scholarship around both professional and citizen engagement in the practice of “placemaking.” She engages people and institutions in the work of healing the world and the creating beloved places. She holds an MS in Landscape Architecture from the University of Wisconsin, has taught at Schools of Architecture from 1976 to 2011, and is author or editor of six books and numerous articles.
Schneekloth has been active in regional environmental work to include being one of the founders of the Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper, and the WNY Environmental Alliance. She also serves on the board member of the Sierra Club Niagara Group and participates in the Crossroads Collective. With these organizations and others, she has facilitated collaborative work in climate justice with special attention to youth and frontline involvement, public trust matters as in Outer Harbor protection, the restoration of our ecology through the Native Plants Collaborative, and the moral imperative of both the climate and biodiversity crises through the Interfaith Climate Justice Community. Schneekloth seeks to deepen people’s connections to the earth both culturally and environmentally. RICHARD STOCKTON
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While members of the Board of Directors of the Western New York Environmental Alliance (WNYEA) may be members of or employed by WNYEA member, associate, or supporting organizations, or other non-affiliated groups or agencies, Directors do not represent any organization or agency other than the WNYEA when conducting and participating in organizational business and activities. Directors are also subject to a written Conflict of Interest Policy to protect the WNYEA’s interests in transactions involving directors, officers and affiliated and related parties.