OFFICERS

Janie French
President

Ms. French is the Director of Green Infrastructure Programs with the PA Environmental Council and has 28 years professional experience in working with more than 150 grass roots organizations on community based planning and water resource sustainability. She has served on the Boards of the PA Organization for Watersheds and Rivers, Curwensville Development Corporation and Pike Township Planning Commission and as co-chair of the development committee for PA Trout.

Dennis M. McNair, Ph.D
Vice-President

Dennis is a biology professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, teaching ecology and physiology. He has an AB in Biology from Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, and MA and PhD in Zoology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. His research involves ecology of aquatic insects, particularly dragonflies and damselflies. Since its founding he has been a member of the Allegheny Plateau Audubon Society and is currently President.

Adia G. Dobbins, MBA
Treasurer

Adia maintains a Bachelor of Music Education degree in Jazz Voice/General Music from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. Adia also holds an MBA with an emphasis in Non-Profit Arts Management. Following her postgraduate education, Adia worked professionally in the areas of marketing, diversity, HR, and corporate law. She currently keeps an active schedule as a business professional within Somerset Trust Company’s commercial lending department, and as a freelance vocalist.

Andrew Mack, Ph.D
Secretary

Andrew is the William and Ingrid Rea Conservation Biologist at the 2200 acre Powdermill Nature Reserve. He lived in Papua New Guinea where he studied rainforest ecology and directed a postgraduate program. He has over 45 publications in ornithology, ecology and conservation. Long ago he was Collections Manager of birds at the Academy of Natural Sciences. He grew up in rural Pennsylvania and now lives on a property in Westmoreland County.

David Petrosky, RLA, ASLA

Since August 1989, Mr. Petrosky has served as a landscape designer/architect/illustrator for the Civil and Environmental Division of L. Robert Kimball and Associates, a CDI Company, in Ebensburg Pa. He participates in all aspects of site design and landscape architecture including client relations, marketing, proposals, meetings, project scheduling, layout and design, construction details, cost estimates, specifications, bidding, contract administration and inspection. He has worked on a multitude of projects including commercial office, retail and residential development plans, conceptual and final master plans, all facets of site planning, hiking and biking trails, churches, cemeteries, streetscapes, parks and recreation, ball fields, riverfronts, plazas, prisons, schools and many other projects. In 1994, Mr. Petrosky received a copyright for a landscape program, EZ-Plant™ operating as an AutoCAD add-on. He devised this software for his work and the landscape industry and currently uses it for his featured landscape design tool in all landscape design projects using CAD at L.R. Kimball & Assoc. The program consists of databases of plants, symbols, and schedules and quickly adds labels and displays plant quantities while creating professional contract drawings. There is descriptive native plant lists included for ease of planting for the Sustainable Sites Initiative. Last spring, because of the development of the EZ-Plant Software program, Mr. Petrosky was honorably nominated as a Fellow candidate for the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) with hopes of becoming a FASLA Award winner. Mr. Petrosky has been a member of ASLA since 1991. He is actively involved as member of the Green Building Alliance, (GBA) Laurel Highlands Branch and working toward LEED certification. Recently, Mr. Petrosky was hired by the Pennsylvania State University to teach landscape design using AutoCAD with EZ-Plant Software.

DIRECTORS

Allison Felix, MS

Allison is the Director of the Saint Francis University Science Outreach Center.  She is the Principal Investigator or Project Director on two federally-funded teacher professional development programs and director of multiple student outreach programming opportunities in STEM Education at SFU.  She has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biology and is pursuing an Ed.D. in Integrative STEM Education through Virginia Tech. She and her husband have three children, operate a regional small business, and co-direct the Felix Family Adoption Foundation through the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies.

Daimon Lawrence MS

Daimon is Director of Marketing at CJL engineering. He manages corporate marketing, business development and proposals for CJL. He currently develops “partnering” alliances with architects and design professionals, as well as identifies and implements business development strategies. He has served as a marketing manager for Hayes Large Architecture. And he has provided professional public communications consulting services, through DLE for eleven years.

Ruth Kucera, MA

A native of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Ms. Kucera has a life-long interest in the outdoors. While her occupation is nursing and she is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing and holds a Master of Public Management degree from Carnegie Mellon University, Ms. Kucera’s work life has allowed her to be a participant in various outdoor activities. Ms. Kucera has been a member of the local Sierra Club and has hiked and backpacked most of the trails of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. She has been a cross-country ski instructor for the YMCA. Ms. Kucera has participated in bird counts, and various ecological events. Her youth was spent on my grandfather's 150-acre farm surrounding the Quemahoning Dam. Ms. Kucera is currently a member of the Greater Johnstown Garden Club and sits on the conservation committee, specifically with native plant issues, their advocacy and their rescue. She is also a member of the civic development committee and participates in their site plantings and maintenance throughout the city. Recently, Ms. Kucera cooperated with Natural Biodiversity to stage a first annual Allegheny Mountain Green Fest in our community.

Aaron Steinly, MAED

Mr. Steinly is currently the Principal at West Hempfield Middle School in Westmoreland County. He holds a Master’s Degree in education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a Pennsylvania K-12 Principal Certification. Mr. Steinly is currently enrolled in the University of Pittsburgh’s Administrative and Policy Studies Doctoral Program. In 2009, St. Francis University honored him with the John D. Powers Educator of the Year Award. He is a member of the Pennsylvania STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Initiative Advisory Committee, where he focuses on Green STEM, improving STEM skills and interest through the development of green initiatives. He collaborated with FOX 8/ABD 23 television studio to write and produce The Green Minute, a weekly television segment that involves environmental “how to go green” topics. Mr. Steinly is currently working with Penn State, U.S. Department of Defense, University of Purdue, Stimulus Technologies, and St. Francis University on developing a “Green STEM Middle School Model.” He is a champion for everything green.