Department of Conservation and Recreation


Julian Agyeman	Michael M. Dutton	Henry Lee
Richard Cross	Whitney Hatch	John Natoli
Christina Crowley	Laura A. Johnson	Daniel A. Wolf

Julian is an associate professor in urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts University. He holds a Ph.D in Environmental Education from the University of London; an M.A. in Conservation Policy from Middlesex University, UK and a B.S. (joint honors) in Geography and Botany from Durham University, UK. He is a qualified teacher with a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of Newcastle on Tyne, UK.

As an academic, activist and practitioner, he has taught in high school, and in universities in England and worked as an environmental education adviser in the not-for-profit sector in London and in local government in two London Boroughs. He was founder in 1987, of the Black Environment Network (BEN), the first environmental justice-based organization of its kind in Britain . He has also run his own consulting firm which specialized in 'communicating environmental and sustainable solutions to local governments, not-for-profit organizations and businesses'.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA), a UK charity which encourages the development of a principled, prosperous society and the release of human potential; a member of the Massachusetts Environmental Justice Advisory Committee (MEJAC) responsible for developing the Commonwealth's policy and a member of the state's Department of Conservation and Recreation Stewardship Council ; a member of the National Academies Committee on the Transportation of Radioactive Waste; a member of the Urban Affairs and City Planning Advisory Board of Boston University; an adviser to the Research and Development Program at the Natural Step and is on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Environmental Education, and the Steering Committee and Editorial Board of Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy.

His research interests are in the nexus between environmental justice and sustainability; the characteristics of sustainable communities; social marketing and sustainability; community involvement in local environmental and sustainability policy and education for sustainability.

He is co-founder, and co-editor of Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. His books include 'Local Environmental Policies and Strategies' (Longman 1994); 'People, Plants and Places' (Southgate Publishers/Learning through Landscapes 1995) and Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World' (Earthscan Publications Limited/MIT Press 2003), which he co-edited with Robert D Bullard and Bob Evans.

His latest book projects are: 'The New Countryside? Ethnicity, Nation and Exclusion in Contemporary Rural Britain ' (The Policy Press) and 'Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice' ( New York University Press).

Richard Hunter Cross III grew up in Virginia. He attended public high school in Richmond where he loved his friends, playing sports and the out doors. In 1966 he enrolled at the University of Virginia where he took a degree from the School of Architecture in 1971 and was a member of the last class of the all men’s, “coat and tie” University. At Virginia he loved the comraderie of his fraternity, his football team, his school work, and began a rugby a career that continued on for a decade after his graduation.

In 1971 he was commissioned as an officer in the United States Navy. His service culminated in a post as a top secret, special intelligence officer on the staff of Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, then the Chief of Naval Operations.

In 1974 he enrolled in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. With interests at the time in land development, his studies focused on landscape architecture and business. Through elective classes at Harvard Business School he became acquainted with a number of senior, chaired faculty who, upon his graduation, hired him into their management consulting firm, The Cambridge Research Institute (CRI). At his graduation from Harvard, he was awarded the Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship, a generous grant in memory of a revered, past University President’s son, given each year to the outstanding student in design.

In 1977 he joined CRI as its eighteenth employee. By the time he left four years later, the firm had grown to nearly one hundred. Over those four years he retained a special relationship with his faculty mentors in a role that he still describes as “carrying the bags for people I revered and watching then fix businesses.” Over this same time period, CRI also sponsored his commuting to the Columbia University School of Business in New York to fill in his course work for his Masters of Science in Business, which was awarded in 1981---according to an agreement with CRI whereby, “they lent me the money, gave me the time off and allowed me to repay the debt from future bonus awards, as long as I continued to bill out 40 hours a week.”

With a change of ownership at CRI, with the passing of his favorite mentor and with the retirement of two others, he left in 1981 to join the Berwick Group, a start up, Boston- based general management consulting focusing on strategic planning. Concurrently, he began teaching in the summer executive program at Harvard, a decade tenure, which culminated in his creation, authorship and teaching the Mid-tier President’s Program, a highly popular, week-long session on how to be a president. From this came numerous other speaking assignments.

He stayed at Berwick Group for ten years, selling and running many assignments with his work becoming increasingly concentrated with financial sponsors---investment firms that owned portfolios of mid tier businesses. His consulting concentrated on diagnoses and remedies for shortfalls in strategic and financial business performance. And he was successful. Such that by the later 1980’s a number of his clients began requesting that instead of consulting, he sign on as an interim/president/CEO to do his work. He took his first such assignment with a real estate development firm in Connecticut in 1990. In 1991 he left the Berwick Group to pursue further opportunities of this kind.

Over the next four years he completed four additional “hands on “ turnarounds, and continued to serve in a consulting role as the driving force behind several others.

In early 1995 he began having conversations with his continuing best friend from Columbia Business School about an investment fund. Fourteen years before on graduation day from Columbia he had vowed to Peter that he was “off to learn how to run businesses.” Peter had vowed his intention, “to learn how to buy and sell tem.” At the bottom of an empty swimming pool, they committed to pursue their separate paths, but at some time to reunite.

That happened in early 1996. After fourteen years in the buy-out business Peter and another mutual friend had secured the initial commitments to form a new private equity fund in New York called Fenway Partners. The prospectus for Fenway was to acquire and fix under-performing businesses from the portfolios of owners where they did not fit in. By the end of 1995 Fenway has raised its first fund of $525 million and had made its first acquisition, which included several mid-tier businesses from the U.S. subsidiary of a British parent.

In early 1996 Dick finished the turnaround and sale of Dateq, Inc.; a NASDAQ listed information processing company for an Atlanta-based group of investors, and took the post as President of Fenway Holdings, Inc. the entity formed to house Fenway’s initial seven company acquisition package.

Over the next four years, he worked through all of the businesses, serving as the acting president, at one time or another, of nearly all of them. The last and the largest success was the turnaround of a Southwest Virginia-based manufacturer of residential windows where his hands-on leadership resulted in a cultural and performance renaissance with a realized gain in value of over $80 million.

By the end of 2000 Dick had been living out of a suitcase four-to-five days a week for a solid five years and decided to take a break. But, it didn’t last long. Soon he was recruited for another transitional president role by a major, Boston-based commercial real estate firm. Upon completion of that assignment, at the request of a dear college friend and investment banker from Atlanta, he took on the position of CEO of a steel fabrication business in Florida. Recently, with that business re-capitalized, he returned to his full-time consulting practice.

This winter he finished his first book, How to Run Your Business, which is expected to be selling in early 2005.

Dick lives in Concord, Massachusetts with his wife, Jenny, of 34 years, where they raised two daughters. When asked after a speech a number of years ago what he was most proud of from his business career, he answered, “my marriage.” He still is. Dick and Jenny spend as much time together as possible in Concord, at their trout fishing, upland bird hunting and riding club in New Hampshire, and at their home on the Chesapeake Bay in Gloucester Point, Virginia.

Christina Crowley is a life long South Shore resident. After graduating from Notre Dame Academy in Hingham, MA, she attended the University of New Hampshire where she received a B.A. in Linguistics. After college, she attended New England School of Law where she earned her J.D. Shortly after graduating from law school, she worked for Michael J. Sullivan as an Assistant District Attorney in Plymouth County. When Michael J. Sullivan was appointed United States Attorney, she continued to work as an ADA under District Attorney Timothy Cruz. During her six years at the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office, Christina worked in the District Court trying bench and jury trials. Later, Christina worked in the Appellate Division writing appellate briefs and arguing in front of the Appeals Court and the Supreme Judicial Court. Christina resides in Hingham, MA with her husband, Eric Reaman, and their three children.

In 1993 Attorney Dutton began a limited private legal practice specializing in estate planning, business planning, real estate, and elder issues. Today, he has a full time practice devoted to estate planning, trusts and wills, charitable gift planning, business planning, artists’ representation, and probate and estate administration. During the 1990s, Attorney Dutton served as Trust Counsel and Senior Trust Officer for Cape Cod Bank & Trust, and enjoyed a similar role at Dukes County Savings Bank. In 2000, he joined Martha’s Vineyard Hospital’s senior management team as Chief Development Officer where he was responsible for the hospital’s charitable giving, community benefits programs, community relation, and planned giving initiatives.

Since 1999, Mr. Dutton has been a member of the Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts Board of Selectman. During his tenure, he has focused his energies on improving the town’s financial position, preserving the town’s unique natural and cultural assets, and planning affordable housing initiatives. He has also served on the town’s Finance and Advisory Board and the town’s Zoning Board of Appeals. He currently serves on the Massachusetts Municipal Association’s Labor and Personnel Committee.

Attorney Dutton is a member in good standing with the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers, Massachusetts Bar Association, Texas Bar Association, National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and the Dukes County Bar Association. He is a past member of the Cape Cod Planned Giving Council, the Cape Cod Estate Planning Council, and a former Board member of the Community Leadership Council, and Legal Services of Cape Cod and the Islands . He currently serves on the boards of The YMCA of Martha’s Vineyard, Friends with Wings, Inc., and the Oak Bluffs Public Library Foundation. He has taught business law at the New England Banking Institute. He received an undergraduate degree from Tufts University and received his Juris Doctorate from Tulane University Law School . In addition, Attorney Dutton is a Certified Trust and Financial Advisor.

He and his wife Karen live in Oak Bluffs with a son Caleb, and a step-daughter Meaghan.

Whitney Hatch is vice president and New England regional director of the Trust for Public Land (TPL), which is a national nonprofit dedicated to protecting land for people to enjoy as parks and open space. In his capacity as regional director, Whitney oversees all of the land conservation work and program development undertaken by TPL in the six-state region, and is responsible for managing TPL's relationships with all public agencies, donors, and nonprofit partners. Whitney came to TPL from a 15-year career at GTE Corporation, where he served most recently as vice president of regulatory affairs in Washington, D.C. Whitney presently chairs the board of the Management Assistance Group and serves on the boards of the EarthShare New England, the Boston Greenspace Alliance, and the Merck Family Fund.

Laura A. Johnson is the President of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. She joined Mass Audubon in January 1999 after 16 years at the Nature Conservancy. At TNC, she served as Division Vice President for the Northeast Division and Regional Director of the Eastern Region, among other positions.

She is a graduate of New York University School of Law (1981) and received her B.A. from Harvard University (1976). She currently serves as a Trustee of the Fenn School, Concord MA, and as a Corporation Member of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. She is a former Trustee and Corporation member of the Winsor School, Boston MA. She is on the Advisory Board of Save Our Heritage, Concord MA.

She is married to Arthur W. Rogers II (school outreach teacher at the Science Discovery Museum, Acton MA) and they have one son Luke who is 13 yrs.

Henry Lee is the Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program within the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Faculty Co-Chair of the School’s International Infrastructure Program, and a Lecturer in Public Policy.

Before joining the School in 1979, Mr. Lee spent nine years in Massachusetts state government as Director of the State's Energy Office and Special Assistant to the Governor for environmental policy. He has served on numerous state, federal, and private advisory committees on both energy and environmental issues, works with private and public organizations (including the Department of Energy, Interior, U.S. EPA, the National Park Service, the Pew Foundation, the Brazilian National Development Bank, the Inter American Development Bank), and has served on several corporate boards. His research interests have focused on electricity and water privatization, environmental management, global climate change, and the political economy of energy. He is the editor of Shaping Responses to Climate Change, the report of the Harvard Global Environment Policy Program and is the author of recent reports on Electricity Restructuring and the Environment, and Distributive Electricity Generation.

John Natoli is a longtime resident of Boston and grew up in Eastern Massachusetts. He attended public high school in Framingham where he was very active in student government and community service activities. In 1966 he enrolled at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and received his Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service degree in 1970. After college, he attended the London School of Economics where he earned an M.Sc. (Econ) degree in International Relations in 1971 and Boston College Law School where he received his J.D. in 1974. After graduating from law school, he worked as in-house counsel for a number of major corporations in the Boston area, and most recently served as Vice President and General Counsel of the Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) Information Services Group. John presently works for the City of Boston where has served as General Counsel of the Boston Retirement Board and Pension Fund and currently serves as Special Advisor to the Chief Financial Officer of the City.

John is a member of several Boards including those of the Peer Health Exchange in Boston and the Old South Meeting House where he currently is Treasurer. He has previously served as a Board Member for the Beacon Hill Civic Association, the Beacon Hill Nursery School, and the Shady Hill School in Cambridge, the Carroll School in Lincoln, and Boston’s Hill House Community Center where he was President of the Board for several years.

Daniel A. Wolf is President and CEO of Cape Air/Nantucket Airlines. In 1989 Mr. Wolf founded Cape Air with one route, Boston to Provincetown, less then 8 employees and a yearly passenger total of 8,000 people. Under Mr. Wolf’s direction Cape Air, along with sister airline Nantucket Airlines became the largest independent, regional airline in the United States. In their latest expansion, Cape Air signed an agreement with the sixth largest airline in the country, Continental Airlines and both companies are now partnering together in Florida, the Caribbean and Micronesia.

Cape Air is an employee owned company with a workforce of 500 people and carries more then 500,000 passengers a year. The fleet of forty-nine Cessna 402s and three ATR 42s fly to some of the most beautiful destinations in the world including Cape Cod, Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands and Key West, Florida.

Mr. Wolf’s secondary education was at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania followed by a bachelor’s degree in Political Philosophy from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. At the Quaker School of Aeronautics he received a degree in Airframe and Power plant Aircraft Maintenance. Cape Air’s maintenance department has been recognized by the Federal Aviation Administration for outstanding aircraft maintenance. Mr. Wolf continues to stay current with his airline transport pilot’s license and flies a scheduled route in the summer season.

Mr. Wolf serves on a number of boards including, the Cape Cod Economic Development Council, the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, where he also serves as Vice-President, the Housing Assistance Corporation , the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod and the Workforce Investment Board. Mr. Wolf is also Associate Publisher and serves on the

Board of Directors for the Cape Cod Voice, a bi-weekly newspaper covering Cape Cod issues.

Under Mr. Wolf’s guidance and direction Cape Air donates generously to a variety of local causes. The company has received major recognition as being one of the most philanthropic companies in southeastern Massachusetts. In addition, Mr. Wolf recently received the prestigious “Good Guy” award from the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus. The award singled Mr. Wolf out for his outstanding support of women in the workforce. Recognition from the airline industry came with his most recent honor from the regional airline industry which named Dan Wolf as one of two Airline Executives of the year for 2003.

Mr. Wolf resides in Harwich with his wife and three daughters and enjoys biking every morning, traveling with his family and a daily game of racquetball.