President: Shannon Ramsay, Founding President and CEO, Trees Forever (Marion, Iowa)

Treasurer: Riyad Abu-Sharr, Chief Financial Officer, Star Marketing Group (New York, New York)

Secretary: Martha Ozonoff, Executive Director, California ReLeaf (Davis, California)

Board Member: Kelly Caffarelli, Executive Director, The Home Depot Foundation (Atlanta, Georgia)

Board Member: Anna Dooley, Executive Director, Greenscape of Jacksonville (Jacksonville, Florida); also chair of the Mayor’s Landscape Commission.

Board Member: Scott Fogarty, Executive Director, Friends of Trees (Portland, Oregon)

Board Member: Guy Hager, Director of Great Parks, Clean Streams & Green Communities, Parks & People Foundation

Board Member: Ray Tretheway, Executive Director, Sacramento Tree Foundation, also a City of Sacramento Councilmember

Past President: Marcia Bansley, Executive Director, Trees Atlanta (Atlanta, Georgia)

Past President: Donna Curtis, Executive Director, Shreveport Green (Shreveport, Louisiana)

Shannon Ramsay
President

Shannon Ramsay is the founding President & CEO of Trees Forever, one of the original members of the Alliance for Community Trees. Formerly a member of the managing board of ACT, Ms. Ramsay has remained active and committed to the mission of ACT. She is currently Program Chair for annual events and serves on the Leadership Training Advisory Board in partnership with National Arbor Day Foundation and ACT. Her priorities are urban forestry research, engaging volunteers, and building the capacity of all ACT members.

Riyad Abu-Sharr
Treasurer

Riyad Abu-Sharr is the Chief Financial Officer for Star Marketing Group. Prior to that, he was CFO for Matthews Media Group (MMG), a health communications firm developing campaigns with “messages that matter” to reach special populations distinguished by age, gender, ethnicity, race, and geography. He has more than 20 years of experience in all areas of finance for growing companies and start-up ventures. Since 1999, he has managed the financials for ACT, which he describes as doing because he “enjoys applying finance my skills to something I really believe in.” Prior to MMG, Riyad worked as a CPA/Chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse in London and Washington, DC; Controller of Federal Data; a government contractor; CFO/COO of Optima Direct, an Omnicom Direct Marketing Company; and CFO of an international start-up Internet company.

Martha Ozonoff
Secretary

Martha Ozonoff is the director of California ReLeaf, a position she has held since June 2000. Founded in 1989, California ReLeaf’s mission is to empower grassroots efforts and build strategic partnerships that preserve, protect, and enhance California’s urban and community forests.

Ms. Ozonoff spent the seven years before coming to California ReLeaf as the executive director of TREE Davis, a locally-based urban forestry group in Davis, California. During her tenure, Ms. Ozonoff worked with thousands of volunteers to plant over 5,000 trees, worked with hundreds of volunteers to help maintain those trees, and spent countless hours educating the community about the needs, benefits, and importance of urban trees.

Ms. Ozonoff also serves on the board of directors of the Alliance for Community Trees, and the University of California, Davis Arboretum, and sits on the California Oak Mortality Task Force, and the California Community Forests Advisory Council.

Ms. Ozonoff’s undergraduate degree is in political science and her Master’s work was in community development; both degrees are from the University of California, Davis. She lives in Davis with her husband and son.

Kelly Russell Caffarelli
Board Member

Kelly Caffarelli currently serves as Executive Director of The Home Depot Foundation, which provides charitable grants to organizations that build affordable, efficient and healthy homes while promoting sustainability, and of The Homer Fund, a public charity that provides emergency assistance to Home Depot employees.

Caffarelli joined The Home Depot in 1999 as Senior Corporate Counsel – Business Services with responsibility for SEC reporting, corporate governance and finance issues. She served as President of the Southeastern Chapter of the American Society of Corporate Secretaries. Prior to joining The Home Depot, Caffarelli was a corporate associate with the firms of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue and King & Spalding. At both firms, her practice focused on securities representation of public companies, mergers and acquisitions of both public and private companies and general representation of clients concerning corporate and securities activities. Before entering private practice, Caffarelli clerked for Chief Judge B. Avant Edenfield in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia.

Kelly Caffarelli graduated magna cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1992, and she is a member of the Order of the Coif. While in law school, she served on both the editorial and managing boards of the Georgia Law Review. She graduated cum laude with a B.A. in History and Political Science from Williams College in 1989.

A native of Athens, Georgia, Kelly Caffarelli is married and has two children. She sits on the Women’s Advisory Board of the Atlanta affiliate of Mass Mutual and volunteers for several nonprofit organizations.

Anna Dooley
Board Member

Anna Dooley is Executive Director of Greenscape of Jacksonville, Inc. Under her leadership, Greenscape has excelled as a community tree planting organization, earning numerous local, state and national awards and increasing the tree canopy of Jacksonville by tens of thousands of trees.

Ms. Dooley entered the nonprofit sector in the way many of us do, by volunteer work. She sat on the Board of Greenscape prior to assuming the role of Executive Director in 1997. Her background includes fifteen years with The Charter Company as well as Public Relations Director of the Museum of Science and History.

She is Past President of the Florida Urban Forestry Council and is currently on the Executive Committee of the Alliance of Community Trees. In 2004, she was the recipient of the Jacksonville Environmental Protection Board’s award for Outstanding Individual.

She is an active volunteer; chairing the Women’s Board of Wolfson Children’s Hospital Florida Forum and currently a member of that group’s Executive Committee. She is the past chair of the Opening Night Party for the Jacksonville Film Festival and works with the local PBS affiliate as well as many nonprofit organizations. She is a graduate of Leadership Jacksonville, Class of 2000 and has served on several mayoral appointed committees. She is a member of the Jacksonville Women’s Network and is currently working on the Mayor’s Parks Task Force. She is also Chair of the Keep Jacksonville Beautiful Commission.

A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Ms. Dooley has lived in Jacksonville for most of her life. She is the proud mother of one daughter, Sarah, a college senior.

Scott Fogarty
Board Member

Scott Fogarty has been an advocate for environmental protection, conservation, stewardship and remediation for over fifteen years working on issues ranging from water quality to coal mining to wilderness protection. He has worked both within federal and state government agencies as well as for non-profit advocacy and action organizations.

Scott's personal best achievements were founding a non-profit grassroots organization in his home state of West Virginia that is thriving today and helping to clean the Deckers Creek watershed of solid waste, water pollution and acid mine drainage. Additionally, he was part of a legal team that sued and stopped coal mining pollution in the Cheat River watershed. Since moving to Oregon and while Executive Director for Friends of Opal Creek, Scott helped finalize and pass the Opal Creek Wilderness and Scenic Recreation Area Act effectively protecting 35,000 acres of pristine ancient forest habitat.

Scott currently serves as Executive Director for Friends of Trees, a community building and stewardship organization with a mission of maintaining and expanding the urban canopy and natural areas in the Portland metropolitan area. He serves on the boards of Willamette Riverkeeper where he is legal chair, Orlo – an environmental art non- profit where he is development chair and with Oregon Community Trees, which is Oregon's state urban forest council.

Guy Hager
Board Member

Parks & People Foundation is Baltimore’s leading nonprofit organization providing creative solutions for recreation, parks, and natural resources. Guy is responsible for a staff of ten and manages several partnership programs aimed at improving the health of Baltimore’s ecosystem including the Revitalizing Baltimore Initiative and Watershed 263 Project- a model urban forest management and watershed restoration initiative, Green Communities and Partnership for Parks Programs, Gwynns Falls Trail Council, Urban Resources Initiative as well as actively participating in the Urban Ecology Collaboration, an east coast, multi-city watershed forestry initiative.

Guy W. Hager was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and attended public schools in California, Michigan, Hawaii, and Washington states. He graduated from Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, in 1967 earning a B.A. in political science with minors in economics and history and served as an elected Student-Legislator in 1966-67. Guy completed a Masters in Public Administration in Urban Affairs with an Urban Planning concentration from American University in Washington, DC in 1974 and served in the U.S. Naval Reserve retiring as a Lieutenant after service in Vietnam. Guy’s career includes experience as an urban planner, policy analyst, project manager, public administrator, and executive director.

Ray Tretheway
Board Member

Ray is Executive Director of the Sacramento Tree Foundation and also a City of Sacramento Councilmember. Mr. Tretheway has a long history with nonprofit organizations, including the Alliance for Community Trees, California ReLeaf, Urban Forest Building Community, Natomas Habitat Conservancy, and is serving his 16th year as Executive Director for the Sacramento Tree Foundation. Mr. Tretheway is a graduate of Mira Loma High School and University of California Santa Cruz, with a BA in Environmental Studies/Anthropology. Ray is a Master Gardener, Greenprint founder, and recognized urban forest leader.

Marcia Dew Bansley
Past President

Marcia Bansley has been the Executive Director of Trees Atlanta since 1985. Prior to directing Trees Atlanta, Ms. Bansley was with SunTrust Bank, a law clerk to the Regional Counsel of the Environmental Protection Agency, and an intern to United States Senator Sam Nunn.

Among her numerous national awards are: The National Arbor Day Award, the National Stafford Award (for her successful efforts to preserve trees along Georgia’s highways), and the Gardens for Peace 15th Anniversary Award. In 1992, she received Georgia’s Environmental Woman of Action Award and the American Institute of Architects Special Award for Excellence.

An internationally recognized speaker and writer on urban forestry issues Ms. Bansley, also an attorney, served three years as an advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture on urban and community forestry, appointed by President Bush. This year, she was recognized as one of 20 “Women Marking a Mark on Atlanta” by Atlanta Magazine. Business to Business Magazine featured Bansley as a “Diva” in a recent issue about Atlanta’s Top female executives. Currently, Ms. Bansley is volunteering as a mentor with the Georgia 100 Mentor Exchange.

Ms. Bansley received her undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and her law degree from Emory University. She holds the designation of Certified Association Executive, the highest honor given professional association executives. She is a member of Leadership Atlanta. She is an Atlanta native and has been actively involved in the conservation movement for twenty-six years. She co-founded the Alliance for Community Trees.

Donna Banks Curtis
Past President

Since 1990, Donna Curtis has been the Executive Director of Shreveport Green, a nonprofit organization providing environmental support and education to the citizens of Shreveport and northwest Louisiana. She has lead the organization to eleven national awards from Keep America Beautiful, the Volunteer Branching Out Award from the National Tree Trust, and six Louisiana Urban Forestry Council Awards. She also serves as President of the board of the Alliance for Community Trees, President of the Affiliates of Keep Louisiana Beautiful, and was Chair of Shreveport’s successful bid for All-America City in 1999.

Ms. Curtis graduated from LSU in Baton Rouge with a B.S. in speech pathology. She worked as a speech pathologist for seven years before moving on to volunteer work. In 1984, she began devoting most of her efforts to environment movement and eventually to leading Shreveport Green.

A native of New Orleans, Ms. Curtis has lived in Shreveport for 35 years. She serves on several other nonprofit boards and has received numerous recognitions for her stewardship, not only in the environment but also community building and leadership.