CLWA Board of Directors: Your friends, neighbors, and community leaders.
The CLWA Board of Directors meets the third Tuesday of each month. Interested in attending? Contact us for this month’s meeting location.
NEIL ATKINS
Board Member
Committees: Executive, Government Relations, Strategic Initiatives
KATRINA BUSCH
Board Member
Committees: Communications/Membership, Executive
SUSAN CARPENTER
CLWA Secretary
Committees: Citizen Science, Executive, Government Relations, Strategic Initiatives
DEE CROFTON
Board Member
Committees: Communications/Membership, Citizen Science
DOUGLAS MERRILL
Board Member
Committees: Government Relations, Development, Strategic Initiatives
LYNN KLOTZ
CLWA Past-President
Committees: Citizen Science, Communications/Membership, Executive, Strategic Initiatives
MARTY LASHER
Board Member
Committees: Communications/Membership
SUSAN MARTENSON
Board Member, President
Committees: Communications/Membership, Executive
SHAYNEE RAINBOLT
CLWA Treasurer
Committees: Finance, Executive
JOEL PASTERNACK
Board Member
Committees: Citizen Science, Government Relations
KAREN WHITE
Board Member
Committees: Outreach
CASEY WOOD
Board Member
Committees: Outreach
OUR TEAM
LINDSEY AYERS, ACTING DIRECTOR
Lindsey joined CLWA as an intern in the Summer of 2019 during her Master’s degree program in Environmental Science at SUNY ESF. She now works part-time at the CLWA office, helping with the Outreach programs, membership activitities, and other administrative work. Lindsey also works part-time as the organizations’ Watershed Education Program Coordinator.
Lindsey loves spending time with her beautiful daughters Ayana, and Allison, husband Marcus, and Leo her husky! She loves to hike, travel, garden, kayak, practice yoga, camp, read, create, adventure, learn, and just enjoy life to the fullest.
WATERSHED EDUCATORS
LINDSEY AYERS, EDUCATION PROGRAM COORDINATOR
Lindsey joined the Watershed Education Program (WEP) at the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year to teach with senior educator at the time, Beth Altemus. Lindsey took over as the Education Program Coordinator after Beth left. We are so grateful to all the previous educators who worked for this program, and you are truly missed!
Lindsey earned her Master’s at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. She served as an intern at CLWA and joined the staff as Administrative Coordinator in 2019. Lindsey works part-time in the CLWA office and part-time as the Education Program Coordinator.
LYNN OCORR
Lynn Ocorr is a retired science teacher after 32 years of coaching and teaching in catholic, city and suburban school settings. She is a contributing author of the New York State Middle School Core Curriculum Guide, wrote multiple environmental grants including one that sent her to the island of Antigua where she taught students and teachers about the impact of tourism on their island environment. She was a lead teacher as part of the Biochem Mentor Network and hosted multiple workshops through Wayne finger Lakes BOCES.
KATHY CONEZIO
Kathy joined the watershed education program in November of the 2021-2022 school year. Kathy is a retired elementary teacher who spent the majority of her 40+ years in education working in preschool programs as a teacher, curriculum developer and Warner School mentor to preschool educators. She has been an adjunct professor for Early Childhood Education courses at the University of Rochester and at FLCC. Additionally, she has participated in grants from the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Education at the University of Rochester’s Warner School. During her most recent years of teaching, Kathy designed, organized and taught in a STEM Laboratory setting working with preschoolers through 5 th graders on a daily basis. Kathy and her husband enjoy traveling, hiking and gardening and have visited almost every national park in the US. They have seven children and twelve grandchildren, and enjoy spending every available minute with them.