Advisory Board

“Whitman Woods Project” Advisory Board
(OSA = Open Space Adviser)

Arsenault, Joseph:  Environmental Consultant & NJ Plant Specialist (OSA)
Atkins, Chet: President/Founder, CA. Enterprises, Inc.

Baird, Laura:  Web Site Design and Development, Studio B founder
Barrett, Susan:  Banking Executive

Carter, Steven:  North American Land Trust President (OSA)
Cieslewicz, Amy:  Licensed Landscape Architect, WWP Site planner
Crawford, Allen:  Artist, Illustrator & Whitman author

Duus, Michael: North American Land Trust Stewardship Director

Edwards, Laura Anne: NASA Datanaut, TED Resident, 2021 Top 50 Leader in Space Tech
Elkis, Patty:  Deputy Director Delaware River Valley Planning Commission (OSA)

Folsom, Ed:  Whitman scholar, Whitman Archive co-director & U Iowa Prof of English
Freeman, Philip:  President, Walt Whitman Arts Center (inactive)

Hagen, Rob:  Former Mayor of Laurel Springs

Jage, Christopher: Conservation Program Director, Adirondack Land Trust (OSA)
Jefferis, Teal:  Jefferis Engineering
Johnson, Andrew: The late North American Land Trust founder was our project’s most esteemed mentor and foremost Open Space Adviser. Andy’s guiding spirit remains vital to accomplishing our goal: Save from development and preserve as a passive park in perpetuity a rare, 3.75-acre wooded lakefront tract in the New Jersey locale where iconic Poet Walt Whitman famously sought renewal and inspiration in the embrace of nature.                                                 

Karbiener, Karen:  Whitman scholar & NYU Master Teacher of Liberal Studies
Kernan, Tim: Geographic Discipline Leader & Principal Associate, Colliers Engineering

McCann-Johns, Maggie: Camden County Parks Department Director (OSA)
Mello Bueno (de), Leticia:  Social Media (Facebook) & Gastronomisti founder
Merton, Dan: Resident Nature Photographer
Molinari, Ed:
Real Estate Appraiser (OSA)
Monahan, Stephanie:  Pine Barrens Regional Mgr, New Jersey Conservation Foundation (OSA)
Morgan, Maryanne:  Artist & Educator

Nolan, Christine:  Executive Director, South Jersey Land & Water Trust (OSA)

Price, Kenneth:  Whitman scholar, Whitman Archive codirector & U Nebraska-Lincoln Prof of English

Redstreake, Carolyn & James: Vacuum Sales principals & Laurel Springs residents (OSA) 
Rich, Barbara:  Rancocas Conservancy Cofounder (OSA)
Robertson, Michael: Whitman scholar & Professor Emeritus of English, The College of New Jersey

Shaw, Lloyd: Naturalist, New Jersey Field Guide & Laurel Springs resident
Stedman, David Alonzo:  President, Walt Whitman Association
Streitz, Wayne:  Attorney
Stutzman, Matt:  North American Land Trust Biologist & Stewardship Assistant
Sworaski, Jack:  Camden County Open Space Director (OSA)

Taylor, Robert:  Scout Leader

Wright, Martha:  Marketing & Branding Executive
Wrigley, Stanley: Arborist (OSA)