Members of the Board of Directors

Virginia Chomat
Grew up in California’s Sacramento Valley.  Lived in France for 28 years where she and her husband raised their two daughters.  During that time, she volunteered at a local hospital tutoring French schoolchildren in English. She also published a book on life in a French village in Provence during the 16^th and 17^th centuries. 
Virginia is a guide and teacher’s aide at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.  

Mark Folsom
Mechanical Engineering consultant.
BSME, University of Vermont; ABD in MSME.

Mark is President of the Humanist Association of the Monterey Bay Area.

Denyse Frischmuth
Worked in international business development for software and hardware companies in Silicon Valley, in international market research at the NASA/Ames Research Center, and for Xerox as a Customer Satisfaction Analyst.
B.A., Laval Université, Québec; graduate work in Linguistics, University of Illinois.

Environmental activism has been important for Denyse for many years. She worked for the adoption by the City of Sunnyvale of a curbside recycling program and for solar panel requirements for new commercial buildings. She formed a study group that brought about environmentally friendlier practices at her work place, where she also initiated and organized a car-pool program.

Robert Frischmuth
Worked in research and development in the energy and electric power industries:
Electric Power Research Institute, EPRI – Project Manager; Occidental Petroleum - Section Manager, Energy R&D; Shell Development Company - Research Engineer, Process Development; Plastonium, Inc. - Chief Engineer, Product and Process Development; NASA, Lewis Research Center - Aerospace Engineer.
B.S., Case Institute of Technology; M.S., Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University.

Robert serves on the Sanctuary Advisory Council of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, and on the Board of Directors of the Central Coast Lighthouse Keepers. He is a tour guide for California State Parks at Point Sur Lightstation, and a docent a Point Pinos Lighthouse. He is a member of the Sierra Club, the American Cetacean Society, Save Our Shores, the United Nations Association of the USA, and Friends of Moss Landing.

Ruth, Smith
Career in cytogenetics. Taught anatomy, physiology and general biology.
Degree in Philosophy.

Ruth serves on the County Council of the Green Party of Monterey County and is active in a number of progressive organizations.

Larry Telles
Began his career teaching philosophy at Brooklyn College in New York City. After moving to California, worked variously as staff, manager, director and administrator of programs serving psychiatric patients, the homeless, and those coming out of State and federal prisons.
MA, Philosophy, University of Cincinnati; PhD, Philosophy, Graduate Center City University of New York.

Larry was Chair of the Board for the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History. He has a long standing interest in social, biological and physical systems.

Megan Tolbert
Environmental Projects Coordinator for the City of Monterey. Ten years of environmental project development and volunteerism.
B.S., Natural Resources Planning, Humboldt State University.

Megan provides leadership on an array of environmental issues, programs, and policies. She is currently Director of Monterey Green Action. She invites you to build eco-awareness and to cultivate your interconnectedness with the Earth.

George Wilson
Retired Protestant clergyman, served congregations in Thailand, Greece, Palo Alto, CA, Louisville KY and Los Angeles, CA. Since retiring in 1988, volunteered as a Mediator with Monterey County Conflict Resolution Center and been a member of the Bio-ethics Committee of Natividad Hospital. Has done interim work as a pastor and traveled about the world -- Africa, China, South America, Europe, etc.  He and his wife have fourteen grandchildren. He lives in Pebble Beach.

George is a guide at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.