CEC Starts 2024 Strong with New Board Leadership
Jon Clark Takes the Helm as Board President
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MARCH 6, 2024 (SANTA BARBARA, CALIF) – The Community Environmental Council (CEC) is pleased to welcome new members and officers to its Board of Directors as it expands its bold climate action across California’s Central Coast.
2024 CEC Board President
Jon Clark is a native Santa Barbarian and has a long history with the Community Environmental Council. He interned for the organization in the mid-80s and, years later, became CEC’s third executive director. After leaving CEC in 1998, Jon became executive director of the Wendy P. McCaw Foundation, during which time he served as CEC’s Board President. He returned to the CEC Board of Directors in 2021.
Jon has served for the past 15 years as President of the James S. Bower Foundation, a local grant maker that focuses on early childhood, education, end-of-life care, and the environment. As an active leader in our community, Jon has served on the boards of several local organizations including Cottage Health, Santa Barbara Foundation, Storyteller Children’s Center, Carpinteria Children’s Project, Direct Relief International, Santa Barbara Region Economic Community Project, and Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce. In 2017 he was named Man of the Year by the Santa Barbara Foundation for his extraordinary service and volunteerism.
2024 CEC Board Officers
Immediate Past President — Barbara Lindemann; 1st Vice President — Christine DeVries; 2nd Vice President - Nadra Ehrman; Secretary — David Pellow; and Treasurer — Peter Schuyler.
New CEC Board Members
Bill Cuttler has over three decades of experience in financial and operational management. For the past 12 years, he has served as the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operations Officer of Carbon2Cobalt, a direct-to-consumer apparel company located in Santa Barbara. Bill previously served as Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations at The Territory Ahead, a key member of the management team that drove the company’s growth from a mid-size catalog brand to a nine-figure multi-channel retailer.
Bill graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a B.A. in Business Economics and started his career in Los Angeles as a Certified Public Accountant with KPMG and later with Disney’s Network TV division before returning to Santa Barbara where he has resided for nearly 30 years. Bill brings to the CEC Board strengths in the areas of strategic planning, organizational leadership, financial management, staff development, and change management. After hours, Bill looks forward to spending time with his family, surfing, cooking, and playing drums with his band, The Mends.
Tammy Sims Johnson serves as the Vice President of Philanthropic Services at the Santa Barbara Foundation (SBF), providing leadership to the development, donor relations, and communications functions of the 95-year-old community foundation. SBF provides grants to local nonprofits, supports the charitable giving of individual and family philanthropists, and mobilizes public-private partnerships to build empathetic, inclusive, and resilient communities throughout Santa Barbara County. Tammy holds a bachelor’s degree in print journalism, with a minor in International Relations, from the University of Southern California, and a Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy (CAP®) designation from the American College of Financial Services. She also graduated from the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business with a Master of Science in Social Entrepreneurship.
Michelle Weinman has served as the Firm Administrator of Fauver, Large, Archbald & Spray, LLP, a Santa Barbara law firm, for over a decade. Previously, she was the Operations Manager for a local wind energy company where she combined her education and passion for renewable energy. Michelle is a local leader in environmental conservation and has been an integral part of CEC for many years — as a longtime CEC volunteer, Co-Chair of the Partnership Council, and member of the Green Gala and Earth Day committees. She also serves on the Human Rights Watch committee, volunteers for Unite to Light, and supports local environmental nonprofits. Michelle grew up in Santa Ynez Valley and has lived in Santa Barbara for 17 years. She is a Katherine Harvey Fellow, a CEC Climate Steward, and the section chair for the Greater Los Angeles Association of Legal Administrators. She loves going to art museums, spending time with her three grown children, and appreciating the natural world she is dedicated to preserving.
Visit www.cecsb.org to see full membership lists and bios for CEC’s Board of Directors and President's Council.
About the Community Environmental Council (CEC)
Recognized as a 2020 California Nonprofit of the Year and 2020 City of Santa Barbara Climate Hero, CEC has worked since 1970 to incubate and innovate real life environmental solutions that directly affect the California Central Coast. Our current work advances rapid and equitable solutions to the climate crisis – including ambitious zero carbon goals, drawdown of excess carbon, and protection against the impacts of climate change. Our programs lead to clean vehicles, solar energy, resilient food systems and reduction of single-use plastic. Learn more about why CEC is one of only five nonprofits in Santa Barbara County to have the highest possible ratings on Charity Navigator and Guidestar at CECSB.org/impact. Find CEC on the web at CECSB.org and on Facebook.com/CECSB, Instagram.com/CEC_SB, and LinkedIn.com/CECSB.
