Greater New Haven Board of Directors
Lynne Bonnett, President
Lynne has been an environmental advocate in New Haven since 2000. She recently lead citizen science projects to measure mercury emissions from the sewage sludge incinerator in East Shore as well as to measure mercury levels in fish caught from the shoreline in New Haven CT. She loves being outside in nature and enjoys sport activities such as hiking, biking, kayaking and skiing. She has always loved music and supports local music organizations in addition to being principal cellist in the Hamden Symphony Orchestra. She stays engaged in local community efforts to support an equitable, just, and sustainable community.
Lynne has been an environmental advocate in New Haven since 2000. She recently lead citizen science projects to measure mercury emissions from the sewage sludge incinerator in East Shore as well as to measure mercury levels in fish caught from the shoreline in New Haven CT. She loves being outside in nature and enjoys sport activities such as hiking, biking, kayaking and skiing. She has always loved music and supports local music organizations in addition to being principal cellist in the Hamden Symphony Orchestra. She stays engaged in local community efforts to support an equitable, just, and sustainable community.
Hannah Peragine, Grants Committee, Microgrants chair
Hannah Peragine is an environmental scientist with a background in tech and science communication. As Microgrants chair, she is interested in increasing the access community organizations have to seed funding for great ideas, and how the microgrants process can increase equity and play a role in enhancing institutional capacity for applicants and grantees.
Hannah has a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment and has lived in New Haven since 2016, where she and her partner are foster parents. She completed the Community Leadership Program in 2020, and is committed to enact what she learned in that program in her role with the GNHGF
Hannah Peragine is an environmental scientist with a background in tech and science communication. As Microgrants chair, she is interested in increasing the access community organizations have to seed funding for great ideas, and how the microgrants process can increase equity and play a role in enhancing institutional capacity for applicants and grantees.
Hannah has a Master of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment and has lived in New Haven since 2016, where she and her partner are foster parents. She completed the Community Leadership Program in 2020, and is committed to enact what she learned in that program in her role with the GNHGF
Martha Smith, Vice President
Martha has more than 30 years professional experience in the water and environmental field: Professionally she’s worked as an environmental consultant, performing hydrogeologic investigations at industrial and Superfund sites across the country. She also served as the Director of the former Yale Center for Coastal and Watershed Systems. A resident of New Haven since 1999, she’s worked with watershed groups for New Haven’s three rivers: the Quinnipiac, West and Mill Rivers. Currently she works as the Policy Coordinator at Rivers Alliance of Connecticut. In her spare time she enjoys gardening, bicycling, and home projects.
Martha has more than 30 years professional experience in the water and environmental field: Professionally she’s worked as an environmental consultant, performing hydrogeologic investigations at industrial and Superfund sites across the country. She also served as the Director of the former Yale Center for Coastal and Watershed Systems. A resident of New Haven since 1999, she’s worked with watershed groups for New Haven’s three rivers: the Quinnipiac, West and Mill Rivers. Currently she works as the Policy Coordinator at Rivers Alliance of Connecticut. In her spare time she enjoys gardening, bicycling, and home projects.
Andrew Danzig, PE, Secretary, Grant Committee
Andy joined the Green Fund board in 2016 as a representative from Woodbridge. He currently
serves as the Secretary of the organization and is an active member of the Grants Committee. His
passion for environmental issues was likely ignited on the very first Earth Day, when as a Boy Scout he
picked up litter along the Erie Canal in Syracuse, NY.
He focused on Ecology while earning a BS in Biology from UConn. Andy later earned a Masters in
Environmental Engineering from Virginia Tech and worked for 25 years as an Environmental Engineer for the TVA in Chattanooga, TN, for an environmental NGO in Israel, and for environmental consulting firms in Connecticut. While still a Professional Engineer, he has mostly retired from consulting. After studying to become a certified Master Gardener, he enjoys working with plants to enhance people’s landscapes, focusing on native plants.
Living for 2 years in a grass hut without running water or electricity as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger, West Africa provided lifelong lessons on resource management and how to get by with less. Andy has led several EcoTeams, small groups of people learning skills to live more sustainably, and participated in several sustainability-oriented discussion groups in Woodbridge using materials from the Northwest Earth Institute (nwei.org).
Andy served as Cubmaster of a New Haven area Cub Scout pack. Other volunteer activities include serving on Woodbridge’s Community Emergency Response Team and Clean Energy Initiative Task Force, and currently as the Woodbridge Trailmaster. He is also on the Facilities Committee of Massaro Farm, an organic CSA farm in Woodbridge.
Andy has trained in Aikido for over 20 years, is an avid gardener, enjoys traveling and experiencing different cultures, playing and watching basketball, particularly women’s college and professional basketball, and continues to learn as much as he can.
Andy joined the Green Fund board in 2016 as a representative from Woodbridge. He currently
serves as the Secretary of the organization and is an active member of the Grants Committee. His
passion for environmental issues was likely ignited on the very first Earth Day, when as a Boy Scout he
picked up litter along the Erie Canal in Syracuse, NY.
He focused on Ecology while earning a BS in Biology from UConn. Andy later earned a Masters in
Environmental Engineering from Virginia Tech and worked for 25 years as an Environmental Engineer for the TVA in Chattanooga, TN, for an environmental NGO in Israel, and for environmental consulting firms in Connecticut. While still a Professional Engineer, he has mostly retired from consulting. After studying to become a certified Master Gardener, he enjoys working with plants to enhance people’s landscapes, focusing on native plants.
Living for 2 years in a grass hut without running water or electricity as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger, West Africa provided lifelong lessons on resource management and how to get by with less. Andy has led several EcoTeams, small groups of people learning skills to live more sustainably, and participated in several sustainability-oriented discussion groups in Woodbridge using materials from the Northwest Earth Institute (nwei.org).
Andy served as Cubmaster of a New Haven area Cub Scout pack. Other volunteer activities include serving on Woodbridge’s Community Emergency Response Team and Clean Energy Initiative Task Force, and currently as the Woodbridge Trailmaster. He is also on the Facilities Committee of Massaro Farm, an organic CSA farm in Woodbridge.
Andy has trained in Aikido for over 20 years, is an avid gardener, enjoys traveling and experiencing different cultures, playing and watching basketball, particularly women’s college and professional basketball, and continues to learn as much as he can.
Annie Adams, Grants Committee Chair
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Marian Evans, MD, MPH, Grants, Nominating, and Marketing and Outreach Committees
Born and raised in Bridgeport, CT. A graduate of Lauralton Hall (Academy of Our Lady of Mercy), BA from Swarthmore College, MD from Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, and a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) from Southern CT State University. Currently, a tenured Assistant Professor, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate public health courses, and serves as the graduate coordinator of the MPH program for the Department of Public Health. She is faculty liaison to the Multicultural Center and chapter advisor to the Golden Key International Honour Society. In 1999, she was a physician scientist at the Yale Griffin Prevention Research Center. In 2004, she was appointed the Director of Health and Social Services for the City of Bridgeport until 2010. She is a Connecticut Health Foundation Health Leadership Fellow, and a Community Leadership Program fellow of the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund. A world traveler and environmental global health champion, whose most recent trip will be a 2020 Study Abroad to Puerto Rico.
She has received numerous awards most recently: 2018-Elm City National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women (NANBPW), and Outstanding Faculty Member by the SCSU Multicultural Center. She presently sits on the Board of Director’s as the Vice-chair for Community Health Network of CT Foundation, a board member of the Greater New Haven Green Fund, and the New England Grassroots Environmental Fund. She is passionate about ministry to people in untraditional, and unconventional forms. (Tenacious, educated, professional, physician, researcher, scientist, professor, woman of faith, award winner, sister, caregiver, community activist, leader, scuba diver, mentor, and wife).
Born and raised in Bridgeport, CT. A graduate of Lauralton Hall (Academy of Our Lady of Mercy), BA from Swarthmore College, MD from Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, and a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) from Southern CT State University. Currently, a tenured Assistant Professor, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate public health courses, and serves as the graduate coordinator of the MPH program for the Department of Public Health. She is faculty liaison to the Multicultural Center and chapter advisor to the Golden Key International Honour Society. In 1999, she was a physician scientist at the Yale Griffin Prevention Research Center. In 2004, she was appointed the Director of Health and Social Services for the City of Bridgeport until 2010. She is a Connecticut Health Foundation Health Leadership Fellow, and a Community Leadership Program fellow of the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund. A world traveler and environmental global health champion, whose most recent trip will be a 2020 Study Abroad to Puerto Rico.
She has received numerous awards most recently: 2018-Elm City National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women (NANBPW), and Outstanding Faculty Member by the SCSU Multicultural Center. She presently sits on the Board of Director’s as the Vice-chair for Community Health Network of CT Foundation, a board member of the Greater New Haven Green Fund, and the New England Grassroots Environmental Fund. She is passionate about ministry to people in untraditional, and unconventional forms. (Tenacious, educated, professional, physician, researcher, scientist, professor, woman of faith, award winner, sister, caregiver, community activist, leader, scuba diver, mentor, and wife).
Aaron Goode, Nominating Committee
Aaron is a environmental advocate based in New Haven. He is the founder of the New Haven Votes Coalition and on the board of the New Haven Democracy Fund, the city's program for public financing of municipal elections. He is the author or editor of several books about New Haven. He is a past Treasurer of the Green Fund and has served on the board since 2011.
Aaron is a environmental advocate based in New Haven. He is the founder of the New Haven Votes Coalition and on the board of the New Haven Democracy Fund, the city's program for public financing of municipal elections. He is the author or editor of several books about New Haven. He is a past Treasurer of the Green Fund and has served on the board since 2011.
Alec Janis, Marketing and Outreach, Grant Committee
An avid hiker of Connecticut, Alec was raised on the shoreline trails in Branford. Later, he was polished off in New Orleans where he became involved in environmental activism. Having joined the AmeriCorps after graduating with a degree in Public Health from Tulane University, Alec became the program and communications coordinator for The Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans. There he worked on coastal mangrove restoration projects, educating local communities about green infrastructure movements in their area and designing a tour on the intersections of Water Infrastructure, Environmental Justice and Music. Having returned to the Greater New Haven Area, he seeks to continue to work against environmental degradation with the Greater New Haven Green Fund through marketing and media. Board of Director since 2021.
An avid hiker of Connecticut, Alec was raised on the shoreline trails in Branford. Later, he was polished off in New Orleans where he became involved in environmental activism. Having joined the AmeriCorps after graduating with a degree in Public Health from Tulane University, Alec became the program and communications coordinator for The Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans. There he worked on coastal mangrove restoration projects, educating local communities about green infrastructure movements in their area and designing a tour on the intersections of Water Infrastructure, Environmental Justice and Music. Having returned to the Greater New Haven Area, he seeks to continue to work against environmental degradation with the Greater New Haven Green Fund through marketing and media. Board of Director since 2021.