Genevieve King, SBC Director
Genevieve is a long-time western Montana entrepreneur who recently
relocated back to Missoula from the beautiful Mission Valley. Genevieve
has built several successful businesses and has deep ties in the
sustainable community. She attended the University of Montana's School
of Journalism and has a background in the sustainable development
field. Genevieve is a member of Missoula Developers for Sustainability,
of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and has dedicated
the past decade of her life to sustainable living, both personally as
well as professionally. Genevieve has two young daughters who have
successfully turned her into classroom-visiting,
basketball-practice-commuting, ballet-studio-visiting multi-tasker. She
co-hosted the PBS aired show RezChef and enjoys cooking healthy,
locally-grown organic gourmet meals for friends and family.
Susan Anderson
Susan Anderson graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from the University of Montana in 1983 and an MBA with concentrations in Finance and Decision Science from the University of Oregon in 1989. She holds a Certified Public Accountants license in Oregon and practiced accounting for 4 years in a firm that specialized in auditing, tax work and consulting for small business. Susan is part owner of BalanceTech, LLC, a family-owned and operated software development company specializing in decision management software and consulting. Her primary roles with the company include accounting, business management, and sustainability educator/trainer. Susan has taught classes in accounting, environmental issues in business, corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and the impacts of energy choices on society as an adjunct instructor at University of Oregon, Linfield College in Oregon, and the University of Montana on a part-time basis over the past 20 years.
In keeping with her joint passions of sustainability and her family, Susan is a Board Chair of the Sustainable Business Council as well as a volunteer with Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Missoula County Public Schools, and other sustainability groups. She actively applies sustainable values in her decisions and tries to teach her children to do the same. For recreation, she plays volleyball, bikes, runs, hikes, reads, makes crafts, and gardens.
Nina Duncan
In 1991, Nina Duncan came home to Missoula after several years of working and traveling internationally. Nina returned to Missoula to refurbish and manage her family’s commercial properties. Her professional career in Montana includes working for 14 years in telecommunications where she focused on public relations, marketing, education and rural economic development. She also held the position of Director of Development for United Way of Missoula County and helped lead a successful fundraising campaign in 2007.
Nina holds a degree in Economics from the University of Montana, with a double minor in French and Spanish. Some of her volunteer efforts include serving on the CASA board, the Salvation Army Advisory board, the Hugh O’Brian Youth Foundation, Sanders County Economic Development Corp., Mineral County Development Committee and she was chair of Missoula Chamber’s Leadership Missoula 21. Nina enjoys music, food and wine, walking her dog, skiing, water sports and being outdoors. She also loves being energized and doing crafts with her
11 year-old twin daughters.
Ellie Boldman Hill:
Ellie is a former practicing attorney from Boise, who moved to Missoula three years ago to continue her lifelong passion to advocate for marginalized populations. The "Pov" is Montana's largest emergency homeless shelter and soup kitchen; an organization that also operates transitional housing facilities for homeless veterans (Valor House) and homeless families (Joseph Residence). The Pov Inc. is a 501(c)(C) organization with a million dollar budget, board of twelve, and staff of fifty. Under Ms. Hill's leadership the Poverello Center has increased its overall budget by 25% and significantly raised the organization's public profile (the "Pov" is routinely voted in local newspapers as Missoula's Best Non Profit and Ms. Hill was voted as Missoula's "Best Activist" in the 2007 and 2008 Missoula Independent). Over the last two years, the Pov has partnered with other collaborators and community stakeholder to serve locally grown food and practice sustainable business practices. Ellie lives, works and plays in downtown Missoula; a vocal proponent of buying local, she also owns a retail store in the “oldest house in Missoula”. Ellie is known for her creative and rapid response to issues, as well as her extensive education and outreach on behalf of the community's most impoverished citizens.
Chuck Irestone
Chuck is a co-founder, board member, and web master for the Sustainable Business Council. Chuck has a BA in Marketing from Western Michigan University. Chuck worked for Patagonia Inc. in order to learn how a business can be successful while doing the right thing for the environment. As Environmental Liasion for the Patagonia Outlet in Dillon, Montana, he was able to combine his marketing knowledge with his passion for the environment. Chuck has worked 10 years on protecting the Yellowstone Bison and recently on the reintroduction of Grizzly Bears into the Bitterroot/Selway Wilderness. Chuck has worked with Audubon to achieve Important Bird Area status for the wintering Trumpeter Swan population in West Yellowstone, Montana. Chuck is the owner of Irestone Web Design in Missoula Montana
Jon Kuennen
Jon is a partner in the Western Montana Valpak direct mail advertising firm. He has worked as a Consultant/Marketing specialist for a D.C. international business development group and with a Montana/DC business consortium aimed at bringing investment capital into Montana. Jon was the O.E.M. and International Distribution Director for Sun Mountain Sports, involving the manufacture and distribution of golf related Sporting Goods worldwide. A native of Bozeman, MT, Jon attended Montana State University, University of Oregon and University of Montana.
Blake Ludwig
Blake is a longtime Missoula resident having relocated here from Chicago with his family in 1969. He is a CPA and a graduate of the University of Montana School of Business. He has worked a number of years in public accounting mostly with the firm of Galusha, Higgins & Galusha PC, and has spent the last fourteen years working as Controller for Sun Mountain Sports, Inc. Blake has worked with and had exposure to a wide range of business issues, from operations, tax and auditing to import/export law, and network design. Blake is married, has a daughter and a stepson, he and his wife Caryn enjoy the fine Montana quality of life, lots of outdoor activities and traveling.
Terre Meinershagen
Occupation: Architect - My wife, Jennie, who is a Landscape Architect and I own Rocking M Design, PC. We founded our firm in Missoula in 1992 to provide integrated services with an emphasis on appropriate design that responds to the character of the site and the client's needs, while respecting the various communities to which the project belongs and being resource efficient. In recent years this has become known as 'green' or 'sustainable' design. We recently completed a high quality residence in the lower Rattlesnake neighborhood applying these principles. We are now living in the home, with the intention of selling it in the near future.
I have been a board member for about a year and a half.
Miriam Mick
With a degree in biology from Smith College, and an extended family on the Eastern seaboard Miriam traveled west with one thing on her mind- find a way to get paid to live in the mountains. After working in outdoor education for several years she realized that her interests truly lay in working with people. This realization led her to pursue teaching, wilderness therapy, and eventually found her working for a small, family owned business in Moab, Utah. It was here that she first gained an appreciation the profoundly positive impact an ethically run business can have on its community. Dried out by the desert, and in love with an angler, she moved to Missoula and found a job at the Independent, where she currently works as the classified manager. She enjoys the wide variety of people she interacts with every day and is excited about the possibility of developing a viable, useful and affordable community forum. In her free time she enjoys all that Missoula has to offer, from hills and music to rivers and microbrews, and is anticipating catching her first fish on a fly rod any day now.
Kaia Peterson
Kaia grew up in Minnesota, and has lived in Maine, Vermont, Thailand, Utah and Washington but is happy to call Montana home. Having worked for a number of environmental non-profits and then receiving her MBA from the University of Washington Kaia has experience in multiple sectors and has a passion for building community through business. As an MBA student she was very involved in climate change work with the City of Seattle and the University of Washington and also worked as a sustainable business consultant. She currently works as a loan officer for the Montana Community Development Corporation.
Ryan Shaffer
Ryan Shaffer is an associate attorney at the Beal Law Firm in Missoula where he practices a wide array of civil law. He has served on the board of directors of Missoula's Home Resource and is a volunteer at Missoula's Community Coop. Ryan is the chair of SBC's Fundraising Committee and also sits on SBC's Buy Local committee. Lisa Swallow
Lisa Swallow teaches sustainable business and accounting courses at the University of Montana between the College of Technology and the mountain campus. Recent life highlights include a faculty exchange to Australia, participation in the Green MBA program at Bainbridge Graduate Institute and serving as a "Big" in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. She is quite involved with the UM Sustainable Campus Committee and is writing a how-to book on green business. Lisa is married with two very active teenagers. Her interests include international travel, running, yoga, time at the lake, skiing, music and hanging out in the woods with the family's golden retriever, Meiko. Her license plates say it all - pura vida! Pete Talbot
Pete Talbot is a film and video producer based in Missoula, Montana. He’s passionate about progressive politics, skiing and his three grandchildren (eight-year-old Grace, two-year-old Taj and newly-born Mercedes, who all live in Bozeman). Pete is a former partner at WestRidge Creative, an advertising firm in Missoula that provides marketing for nonprofits, and coordinates issue and candidate campaigns. He is now the Director of Special Projects at WestRidge a fancy title he made up that requires very little work. He also does freelance film and video production under the name Sterling Productions, a company he founded nearly 30 years ago. He’s produced pieces for the History Channel, Lifetime Television, Home and Garden Network, and ABC’s Good Morning America.
Jeannette Williams
Jeannette is a real estate broker and owner. She has lived in Missoula for 35 yrs. She is married to a green builder and has two adult children living in Montana. She is an avid organic gardener and bicycle enthusiast. |
