Green Footprints steering committee

Ann Hirschi - Chair and Project Leader

Ann is a graduate of the University of Washington and practiced architecture for many years at Environmental Works Community Design Center. She was a founding member of the Denny Regrade Community Council and edited the Belltown Rag with artist Carl Smool. She served on Mayor Royer’s task force on Regrade Zoning and was active in affordable housing issues, helping to found the Displacement Coalition before moving to greater Madison Valley in 1981. After becoming interested in landscape design, she became a certified arborist and currently works with Tree Solutions Consulting Arborists on vegetation management planning and site restoration projects.

Rebecca Wiess - Legal

Rebecca Wiess has been an attorney in private practice in Seattle for 25 years, and an area resident for more than 50 years. She has carried out her commitment to improving Seattle through many activities including chairing a task force for the Seattle 2000 Commission in 1972, volunteering on policy advisory committees with the Seattle Water Department/Seattle Public Utilities from 1978 to 2001, and serving as a board member at Metrocenter YMCA since 1998. She is president of Friends of Prentis Frazier Park, which has just completed a Small and Simple Grant project for removal of invasive plants, planting of natives, and additions to the hardscape at this neighborhood park.

Wallis Bolz - Operations

Wallis is a writer, editor and reporter who has worked in various capacities for several Seattle-based book publishers, including Seal Press, Bay Press and Microsoft Press. From 1998-2000, she worked as a reporter and editor for The Seattle Press, a north Seattle newspaper. From 2002-2005, she published the South Seattle Star, a central and southeast Seattle newspaper, and the Seattle Sun, a north Seattle newspaper. She serves on the Madison Valley Engineering Sub-Committee, a citizen board working with Seattle Public Utilities to select and implement a long-term solution to chronic flooding in Madison Valley. Wallis was born in Everett, has made Seattle her home for the last 25 years, and is the mother of Carl and Abram.

Eileen Maloney - Volunteer Leader

Eileen spent 15 years teaching, counseling and training domestic and foreign students both in the U.S. and abroad before becoming a real estate broker. She has been in that business for some 23 years now. Her community activism began in the 1960s and developed into more mainstream activities in the 1980s when she chaired committees for The League of Women Voters, Board of Realtors, Rotary Club and other organizations. Eileen co-wrote a Small and Simple Grant for Prentis Frazier Park and managed community volunteers for the project. Eileen has lived in Seattle for 12 years.

John Potter - Technical Support

John is a retired CEO of a public company, a former technology and management consultant, and currently the Treasurer of a specialty manufacturer. He served as the Executive Director, Fundraising Chair, and Board President of Community for Youth, a mentoring program for at risk youth in Seattle public schools. He is a father of four and a 30-year resident of Seattle.

Andy Foster - Fundraising Leader

Andy is a entrepreneur and developer with a broad range of volunteer and charitable interests, and a tireless fundraiser. He is a long serving Board member of Community for Youth, a mentoring program for at risk youth in Seattle public schools and currently volunteers with Sound Keepers, an environmental watchdog group. He was born and raised in Seattle.

Green Footprints Advisory Review Panel

The Advisory Review Panel will provide oversight and broader community input to the Green Footprints Steering Committee and volunteer team. It will meet three or four times over the course of the project to review the project plan, the preliminary resource maps, and the Green Footprints Neighborhood Action Plan as it develops. The initial members of the committee are:

Ms. Karen Daubert, Executive Director, Seattle Parks Foundation
Mr. Donald Harris, Seattle Dept. of Parks and Recreation and Chair of the Arboretum & Botanical Garden Committee
Mr. Peter Triandafilou, Madison Valley resident, past president of the Greater Madison Valley Community Council, present treasurer of the Madison Valley Merchants Association
Ms. Linda Becker, Madison Valley resident
Mr. Peter Costantini, Madison Valley resident. Mr. Costantini is a member of the Madison Valley Engineering Sub-Committee, a citizen board working with Seattle Public Utilities to select and implement a long-term solution to chronic flooding in Madison Valley.
Julia Gold, Executive Director, University of Washington Law School Mediation Clinic