Member, Task Force on the Establishment of a Statewide Spay/Neuter Fund, 2011-13. Board of Trustees, Chesapeake Bay Trust, 2011-. Member, Oyster Advisory Commission, 2012-; Maryland Botanical Heritage Work Group, 2013-14; Task Force to Study Rates and Charges in the Washington Suburban Sanitary District, 2013-14.
Born in Ahwaz, Iran, December 26, 1976. Attended Reno High School, Reno, Nevada; University of Nevada - Reno, B.S. (biology), B.A. (spanish), 2000; School for International Training, Brattleboro, Vermont, M.A. (intercultural leadership, service & management, focus on sustainable development), 2011. Executive Director, Ehlers-Danlos National Foundation, 2014-. Wildland firefighter, U.S. Forest Service, summers 1995-98. Served in Peace Corps in rural Zambia, 2002-05. Development assistant, The AIDS Project of Southern Vermont, 2006-07. Program coordinator, Iracambi Atlantic Rainforest Research, 2007-08. President, Amigos de Iracambi, 2008-. Senior Associate, The Coulter Companies (nonprofit management), 2008- (managing director, alliance for massage therapy education). PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor, Atlantic Edge Dive Center, 2008-. Board of Directors, Future Link. Married; two children.
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