Adrienne Etherton, Executive Director [Email]
Adrienne’s passion for sustainability and continual quest for knowledge made her a great fit for the organization. She graduated with honors from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering, interning with Quaker Oats and Caterpillar as a student. After moving to San Mateo in 2008, Adrienne became interested in sustainability, studying Photovoltaics and Environmental Science, as well as many courses in energy efficiency and green building from Pacific Gas & Electric’s Pacific Energy Center. She has earned both LEED AP and NABCEP Entry Level Solar certifications, and also studied Architecture at UC Berkeley’s [IN]ARCH summer institute. Her recent roles as Administrator and Program Manager required involvement in nearly all aspects of the organization, including development, event coordination, program management and office administration.
Kara Anderson, Program Manager [Email]
A San Mateo County native, Kara recently reestablished herself in the Bay Area after several years living on the East Coast and internationally. Her desire to work towards achieving sustainable initiatives locally lead her to volunteer with the 2012 events committee for Sustainable San Mateo County. Proving an energetic and motivated team member, she was hired as a full-time Project Manager in November of 2011. Her particular interests are sustainable development and transportation systems, urban agriculture and public policy. Kara has received a BA from McGill University, an Masters in Modern History from the University of Oxford, and an Masters in Real Estate Finance from the University of Cambridge. Complementing her academic achievements are practical talents in client presentation, project management, sales and marketing, prioritization and consensus building gained across the real estate and financial service industries.
Tanja Srebotnjak, Indicators Coordinator [Email]
Dr Tanja Srebotnjak is an environmental and biostatistician and Senior Fellow with Ecologic Institute. She heads the Institute’s office in San Mateo, California. The main foci of her work are the development and testing of indicators and highly aggregated indices for assessing environmental performance, policy and sustainability objectives. This includes the conceptual framework and indicator selection, specification of weighting and aggregation methods, and extensive uncertainty and sensitivity analysis. Fields of application include water and air quality management, ecological threshold phenomena, methods for assessing greenhouse gas emission reductions and biofuel potentials, studies on the environmental effects of trade and globalization, net human migration across ecosystems as well as the evaluation of climate change targets and associated policies. She is furthermore interested in assessing environment-health relationships, the prospects and risks of hydraulic fracturing, and the scale-up and development of metrics for energy and resource efficiency measures.
From 2000 until 2003 Dr Tanja Srebotnjak was a statistician in the United Nations Statistics Division in New York. Dr Tanja Srebotnjak obtained her Masters in biostatistics from the Technical University Dortmund, Germany, and the University of Auckland, New Zealand, as well as a PhD from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 2007 on the topic of index development for environmental policy. Noteworthy in relation to her stay at Yale University is the Environmental Performance Measurement Project at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, which she directed from 2003 to 2006 and which publishes the Environmental Sustainability Index and the Environmental Performance Index.