Andy Duncan

Andy is the Energy Training Manager and Workforce Development Coordinator at Lakes Region Community College in Laconia, NH. He manages sustainable energy education programs throughout New Hampshire. Andy is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Concord, NH. He served on the church’s board of trustees from 2014 – 2017, including chair in 2016 – 2017. He also chaired the church’s Green Sanctuary committee. 

Andy has over 25 years of experience in environmental management and education, and was a co-owner of a building energy performance company. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment.

Rob Werner

Rob is the New Hampshire State Director for the League of Conservation Voters, a national advocacy organization that works to turn environmental values into national, state, and local priorities. Rob formerly served as the National Field Director of Americans for Campaign Reform. A public policy analyst and advocate, Rob has organized successful advocacy and legislative campaigns for the American Heart Association, Smoke-Free NH Alliance, and the American Cancer Society. Rob has extensive experience in the health care sector, working in the private, government, and non-profit areas. 

Rob is a graduate of Northfield Mount Hermon School and the University of Vermont. He earned a Masters of Business Administration from Suffolk University as well as two certificates from the Harvard Kennedy School, Senior Managers in State and Local Government and Climate Change and Energy Policy. Rob is serving his sixth term on the Concord City Council, chairing the Energy and Environment Advisory Committee Active in the Greater Concord, NH Chamber of Commerce, Rob serves on the State Government Affairs Committee.. Rob serves on the board of the Harvard Club of New Hampshire and Chairs the Harvard Kennedy School New Hampshire Network. Rob is a graduate of Leadership New Hampshire and a member of the Bow, NH Rotary Club.

Susan Fuller

With roots in Buffalo, NY and Berkeley, CA, Susan is a city girl who found her grounding in the granite mountains, mixed forests and sparkling waters of NH where her family spent a month each summer at the family camp on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee during her formative years. It was here that she gained intimate experience with the environment with lots of camping, hiking, canoeing, and swimming.

As a teenager Susan lived in the turmoil of the 60’s in progressive Berkeley, CA. She learned about social justice and community development from her parents’ activities in the civil rights and anti- war movements. She remembers the first Earth Day, going to the Berkeley Recycling Center, and passage of the Clean Air and Water Acts. A preacher’s kid, Susan has always been active in faith communities growing up in the United Church of Christ and currently in the Episcopal Church. She believes NH Interfaith Power and Light provides great opportunities for individuals and faith communities, by working together, to address climate change and to protect our Island Home and her future generations.

Susan has a BS degree in Exercise Physiology from California State University at Sacramento. After moving full time to NH in 1986, she earned an MEd in Environmental Education from Plymouth State College (now University). With a varied career trajectory, she self identifies as an educator, having plied her trade in a health enhancement center, the Squam Lake Natural Science Center, churches, schools, a start-up YMCA, the Wolfeboro Public Library and most recently, as an Earth Care Missioner at All Saints Episcopal Church, Wolfeboro. She is currently chair of the Wolfeboro Energy Committee and a contributor to the first Energy Chapter in the latest Wolfeboro Master Plan. She has two grown sons.

With Susan’s initiative, All Saints applied for and received a grant from the diocese to fund her part time position as Earth Care Missioner. At the parish level, she reaches out to community organizations to partner in environmental stewardship events; at the Diocesan level she is a member of the NH Episcopal Diocese Earth Care Commission which successfully introduced a targeted carbon reduction resolution at the 2019 Annual Convention for all churches in the NH Episcopal Diocese. At the statewide level, Susan and an active steering committee resurrected NH Interfaith Power and Light where she is director.

Michael Fleming

Michael is the chair of the Green Sanctuary Council of the Durham Unitarian Unversalist Fellowship (DUUF), leader of the Great Bay NH chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby, and co-founder of Seacoast Interfaith Stewards of the Earth (SISE). In 2015 he spearhead DUUF’s efforts to become the first solar-powered church in New Hampshire. He is currently organizing a series of Presidential Candidate Climate Forums designed to inform NH citizens in the run-up to the primary in February.

In 2015 Mike retired from working as a health care research team manager for Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield. While in that role Mike directed collection of health care quality data from health plans across the nation. Prior to his work with Anthem, Mike worked for the states of Ohio and Maine as a planner, researcher and manager of projects relating to public health, health care, and mental health care. He holds masters degrees in public health and in medical geography from the Ohio State University.

Lydia Hansberry

Lydia Hansberry is 16 years old and is a part-time student at Hanover High School and is also homeschooled. Lydia is planning to dedicate her life and career to improving the coexistence between humans, other species, and the environment, and helping solve the climate crisis. She first learned about climate change when she decided to become an activist for wildlife conservation and indigenous rights and has since also become interested in the connection between minorities and the climate crisis. She is involved with and an active member of around 40 organizations centered around climate awareness and protection. Lydia recently graduated from the 2nd Vital Communities Climate Leadership Academy course and is utilizing what she gained from the course to hopefully launch climate education initiatives at local high schools.

Ruth Heath

Ruth has been an active member of the Concord Quaker Meeting since 1979.  She has served in almost every role from Clerk (lay leader) to Treasurer to Sunday School teacher and on nearly every committee.  She has also served on or chaired  numerous committees of the regional New England Yearly Meeting (Quakers)  with a focus on children, Earthcare,  governance, planning, aging, and music ministry.  For 7 years she was Clerk of Board of The Meeting School, an alternative boarding school in Rindge, NH which was a working organic farm. She served on the Concord Quaker Meeting Building Committee as it built an Energy Star Meetinghouse  (completed 2010).  And she was a key member of the Solar Committee that added solar panels to it in 2019, lifting it to net zero status. She started the Transition Canterbury group in 2012 which was very active for 5 years. She currently chairs the Canterbury Town Energy Committee.    

Ruth is an avid hiker, gardener, singer, contra dancer, and swimmer, finding the Spirit in nature and relationships with other people. She and her husband created a cooperative community in 1979 where 4 homes share maintenance of our gravel road and the oversight of 40 commonly owned acres of woodland next to our housing plots. They designed and owner-built their passive solar in 1980-83 and solar panels were added in 2014 and 2019.  In 2001, students asked her to become the advisor to the NHTI Environmental Action Club; it has been her joy and honor to work with young adults and act together to create the sustainable world we dream of. After working in both computers and teaching math for 40 years, she retired and has made the environment, energy, and other social justice issues her primary focus.

Julia Steed Mawson

Julia Steed Mawson is a biologist/environmental educator from Pelham, NH. She has worked for UNH Sea Grant Extension and the UNH Cooperative Extension 4-H program, providing environmental education programs for diverse audiences. She is now a retired UNH Extension Educator Emeritus.

Julia’s now works on projects involving environmental spirituality and community involvement. She is a volunteer Animator with the Laudato Si’ Movement, as well as Catholic Climate Covenant and the Ignatian Solidarity Network. These organizations focus on supporting the messages of the encyclical of Pope Francis, Laudato Si’: On Care For Our Common Home regarding hearing the cry of the earth, the poor, and our youth. Julia is a parishioner at St. Patrick’s Parish, and is working with another parishioner and her pastor to initiate a Laudato Si’ Circle - Creation Care Team for St. Patrick’s.

Because we are all interconnected and we cannot do this alone, she feels that working with interfaith organizations like Green Faith and Interfaith Power and Light is vital, as is involvement in the secular world. She therefore tries to support Citizens Climate Lobby and her lake association, as well as sharing her love of the natural world with her family and friends.