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 GreenFaith's Board of Trustees Executive Committee Members David Prescott, Chair, is Managing Partner of Tarxien Partners, LLC, a leadership enrichment practice. A former senior executive with a private investment company, he helps business and non-profit leaders achieve greater integrity and purpose in their leadership. William Friedman, Esq., Vice Chair, is a Partner at the law firm of Wolf Block Brach Eichler. He is experienced in environmental and toxic substances law, and served with the US Environmental Protection Agency prior to entering private practice. Steven Blumenthal, CPA, Treasurer , is a Principal in the Tax Services Department at the Hunter Group CPA LLC, an accounting and financial services firm. He is also President of the Executive Exchange, Inc., on the Board of Directors of the Meadowlands Chamber of Commerce, and on the Board of Directors of the Bergen County Work Force Investment Board. Theodore Eisenberg, Esq., Counsel, is Roseland Office Managing Partner for Fox Rothschild LLP. He has negotiated collective bargaining agreements and instituted alternate dispute resolution procedures in a range of industries, and is a Trustee of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life. Katherine Abbott, Secretary, is a mother, environmental activist, and leader of the NJ Catholic Coalition for Environmental Justice. She is Vice Chair of the Chatham Township Environmental Commission, Chair of the Earth Awareness PTO Committee in a Chatham public school, Chair of the Environmental Stewardship Committee at St. Patrick Church in Chatham, and a member of the NJDEP Environmental Justice Advisory Council. Benjamin
Alter, Development Committee Chair,
is Vice President of GZA GeoEnvironmental, an environmental
services firm. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Hunter
College School of Health Sciences and has published articles
on hazardous waste investigations and remediations. Board Members Valorie Caffee is Director of Organizing for the NJ Work Environment Council, a statewide labor-environment-community alliance, chair of the Environmental Justice Advisory Council to the NJ Dept. of Environmental Protection, and a convener of the NJ Environmental Justice Alliance. She has published articles on environmental justice in national and statewide publications. The Rev. Bruce Davidson, Advocacy Committee Chair, is Director of The Lutheran Office of Governmental Ministry in New Jersey. He serves as a faith-based advocate on issues of poverty, housing, the environment, and other issues of social justice, and helps oversee policy advocacy for the New Jersey Council of Churches. George Hawkins, Esq., is Executive Director of New Jersey Future, an organization which conducts research, education and policy advocacy to achieve smart growth in New Jersey. He is past Executive Director of the Stony Brook Millstone Watershed Association and served as a lawyer and senior advisor to the US Environmental Protection Agency. Dana Hiscock, Esq. is a Partner at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, a New York law firm where he specializes in estate planning, estate and trust administration, charitable gift and bequest planning, and tax- exempt organizations matters. He chaired the Board of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies from 2002-2005. Rachel Holmes is a graduate student pursuing a Masters of Divinity at Yale Divinity School and a Masters of Environmental Management at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. From 2003-4, she served as the Undergraduate Student Representative to the Board of Trustees of Rutgers University. Dr. Laurel Kearns is Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion and Environmental Studies, Drew Theological School and Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University. She has been a member of the Religion and Ecology Steering Committee of the American Academy of Religion since 2002. The Rev. Dr. Paul Kim is Pastor of Little Falls United Methodist Church. He received his doctorate in theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. Currently, he is translating an early 20th century Korean text that places Christian, Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian believers in dialogue. Gary Matthews, PhD CPA/PFS is a Personal Financial Specialist and an investment advisory representative of First Affirmative Financial Network specializing in socially and environmentally conscious (SRI) investment strategies. He received a Doctorate in Social Ethics from Union Theological Seminary. Deborah Prinz is Executive Director of the South Orange-Maplewood Education Foundation. She is a member of the NJ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission, the Community Relations Committee of the United Jewish Communities Metrowest, the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival Committee and an officer of Temple B’nai Abraham in Livingston. Cindy Steele M.D. is the Associate Director of the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, the Tomorrows Children’s Institute at the Joseph Sanzari Children’s Hospital of Hackensack University Medical Center. Rabbi Elliott Tepperman, Program Committee Chair, is Senior Rabbi at Bnai Keshet, a Reconstructionist Synagogue in Montclair. He has a broad background in congregational life, community-building, Jewish liturgy and union organizing.
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