Board of Directors

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
CLWA Past-President

Committees: Executive, Government Relations

KATRINA BUSCH
Board Member

Committees: Communications, Executive, Membership

SUSAN CARPENTER
CLWA Secretary

Committees: Citizen Science, Executive

DEE CROFTON
Board Member

Committees:  Citizen Science, Membership

LINDA DWORACZYK
CLWA Treasurer

Committees: Executive, Finance

ROB GRAY
Board Member

Committees: Community Outreach, Education

LYNN KLOTZ
CLWA President

Committees: Citizen Science, Communications, Executive, Membership

SUSAN MARTENSON
Board Member, President-Elect

Committees: Membership, Communications, Executive

DOUGLAS MERRILL
Board Member

Committees: Government Relations, Development

SALLY NAPOLITANO
Board Member

Committees: Citizen Science

JOEL PASTERNACK
Board Member

Committees: Citizen Science, Government Relations

ELLEN POLIMENI
Board Member

Committees: Education, Government Relations

SHAYNEE RAINBOLT
Board Member, Co-Treasurer

Committees: Finance, Executive

WADE SARKIS
Board Member

Committees: Nominating

Lindsay joined the CLWA team with a background in Natural Resource Conservation and Communications. Lindsay works with CLWA’s Board of Directors and volunteers to design and implement community outreach programs, establish strong working relationships with local and regional partners, and provide day-to-day management of the organization.  She is the Secretary for the Finger Lakes Regional Watershed Alliance and member of the Lake Friendly Living Coalition of the Finger Lakes. She loves exploring all the Finger Lakes has to offer through hiking, cross country skiing, boating, and adventuring with her friends and family.

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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.

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Sammi joined CLWA as an intern in the Spring of 2022 and now works full-time with CLWA. Samantha supports CLWA’s communication, community engagement, and event programming. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in Sustainability and Urban Planning from Arizona State University and an Associate Degree in Marketing and Communications from Finger Lakes Community College.

Sammi enjoys outdoor adventures like backpacking, camping, snowboarding, and paddleboarding on Canandaigua Lake.

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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.

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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 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.