Jennifer Frey

Jennifer has a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the U. of Detroit Mercy and a certificate in the Sustainable Built Environment from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute. Jennifer worked in the residential design and build world for several years in various places around the nation before joining Sellen Construction. Currently, Jennifer is an accomplished sustainability consultant and Project Manager with Sellen Sustainability, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sellen Construction. As a LEED and Living Future Accredited Professional with 20 years of industry experience, Jennifer guides teams through LEED certification compliance efforts and other sustainability requirements to ensure that projects meet objectives. She has helped many corporate customers obtain and exceed their LEED goals including Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Vulcan Real Estate, Russell Investments, Museum of History and Industry, King Street Station, Boeing’s Museum of Flight, and many others.

Jennifer is also involved in the community, beyond Close to Home, as a Board Member of OUT for Sustainability, a past committee member of EarthShare of WA, and a YWCA Mentor in 2004.

John Halas

Reverend John Halas is the minister for the Men’s Group and the Compassion Through Loss Drop-In Group at the Center for Spiritual Living in Seattle. He became a licensed practitioner in 2000 and a minister of Religious Science in 2004. In both positions he has supported individuals and couples in integrating spiritual wisdom into their lives through retreats, classes, and individual guidance. Before joining the staff at the Center for Spiritual Living in 2006, he facilitated relationship retreats and classes with HeartPath Retreats. John is a Professional Engineer, specializing in buildings of all sizes, from homes to high rises. He was a lead structural engineer on the eighth tallest building in the world, the Columbia Center of Seattle. Reverend Halas integrates the spiritual wisdom of a minister with the practical wisdom of a professional engineer using the languages of logic, poetry, visual arts, and spiritual visioning. He has been educated in the art and science of relationships in the classroom and in the real experience of a 34 year marriage.

Erin Hulme

Erin Hulme works with companies, multilaterals, government and non-profits on cross-sector partnerships. She currently works in Seattle at the Pacific Northwest Ballet where she works with local corporations and their community relations and corporate responsibiliy departments. Before moving to Seattle she was the Americas Manager of the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) where she managed strategic partnerships and initiatives with Fortune 500 companies and global stakeholders, such as the US State Department Global Partnership Initiative, UNDP, IFC, and the UN Secretary-General’s Taskforce for Business and Human Rights. Previous to IBLF, Erin worked at the United Nations Foundation (UNF) where she supported the Partnership Development team in cultivating new global public-private partnerships.

Erin has a Sustainable Systems MBA from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute and graduated summa cum laude from the Portland State University. She also holds certificates from the Partnership Brokers Accreditation Scheme, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Center on Philanthropy Indiana University.

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Stacy Noland

Since 2010, Stacy Noland has been directing teams of student researchers, citizen scientists, aspiring filmmakers, and emerging social innovators on a campaign to research and document the strategies and tactics, tools and procedures, best practices and critical lessons learned by individuals working to help their communities rebuild and recover after experiencing major catastrophic events.

His teams have deployed to, observed, and documented the response and recovery efforts after Hurricanes Katrina, Isaac, and Sandy, the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, the super tornadoes that struck Joplin, Tuscaloosa, and Moore, OK, as well as the floods, fire, drought and torrential rainstorms that ravaged California and Colorado. Most recently, his team deployed to the Oso Landslide to assist local, state, and federal incident command units with the response and recovery efforts. In 2013 Noland helped the Filipino Community of Seattle raise money in support of Super Typhoon Haiyan relief and in 2014 he led a campaign to proclaim March 22, 2014 as the “Great East Japan Earthquake Remembrance Day” in the City of Seattle.

In 1999, two years before the 7.0 Nisqually earthquake, Stacy helped launch Seattle Project Impact, a public, private, and nonprofit partnership with the City of Seattle to help residential homeowners seismically retrofit and earthquake-proof their homes. The program was a great success.

Currently, Mr. Noland is in the fifth year of production of Storm Surge, a feature documentary chronicling the lives of five Gulf Coast families working to rebuild their lives, livelihoods, and communities in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the BP Deepwater Horizon oil incident. Storm Surge is slated for release spring of 2015.

Stacy is also a volunteer social media trainer for Humanity Road, a non-profit organization that delivers disaster preparedness and response information to the global mobile public before, during, and after a disaster. He is also a community catalyst and field innovator for the Field Innovation Team, which delivers cutting edge technology solutions to help first responders save people, pets, and property during a disaster.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Rehder

Mike is a graduate of Washington State University where he received a Bachelor of Architecture. Following his formal education, Mike began a required architectural internship that led to an Architectural license in Washington State. At this point, Mike has practiced for more than 30 years, working on many building types ranging from single-family homes to hospitals, airports and university buildings. Along the way, Mike accumulated a number of additional skills, all related to building design and construction. Ten years ago, he became a LEED Accredited Professional. He worked as a green building consultant and has experience with both USGBC’s LEED Rating Systems and LFI’s Living Building Challenge.

Presently, Mike works as a renewable energy professional. He works for a certified ”B Corp” in Seattle. Their triple bottom line approach to business management balances financial, social and environmental behavior while competing in the for-profit renewable energy marketplace. Mike’s deep knowledge of building systems blends well with his focus on energy. Mike also holds NABCEP’s Technical Sales certification.

In addition to helping with Close to Home, Mike is on the Board of Trustees for Ryther, a non-profit organization that serves children and families in need of mental health services. Mike is dedicated to ensuring that Ryther remains viable and resilient well into the future.

Bruce Schatzman