Good Neighbor Environmental Board Membership List

• Designated Federal Officer
• NON-Federal, State, Local, Tribal Members
• Federal Members

Mark Joyce
Acting Designated Federal Officer
Good Neighbor Environmental Board
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Federal Advisory Committee Management and Outreach
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Mail Code: 1601-M
Washington, DC  20460
(P) 202/564-2130; (F) 202/564-8129
E-mail: joyce.mark@epa.gov

Cecilia E. Aguillon
Director Market Development and Government Relations
KYOCERA Solar, Inc.
San Diego, CA

Luis Olmedo
Executive Director
Comite Civico Del Valle, Inc.
Brawley, CA

David Anderson
Founder
FORM Sustainable Planning & Community Development
Austin, TX

Mike Ortega
Cochise County Administrator
Board of Supervisors
Bisbee, AZ

Jose Angel
Assistant Executive Officer
California River Basin Region Water Quality Control Board-Colorado River Basin Region
Palm Desert, CA

Luis E. Ramirez, MSFS
President
Ramirez Advisors Inter-National, LLC
Phoenix, Arizona

Diane Austin, Ph.D.
GNEB Chair
Associate Research Anthropologist
Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Cyrus B.H. Reed, Ph.D.
Conservation Director
Sierra Club, Lone Star Chapter
Austin, TX

Evaristo Cruz
Director
Environmental Management Office
Ysleta del Sur Pueblo
El Paso, TX

Thomas Ruiz, M.S.
Border Environmental Issues Coordinator
New Mexico Environment Department
Las Cruces, NM

Veronica Garcia
Deputy Director
Waste Programs Division
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
Phoenix, AZ

Nathan P. Small
Conservation Coordinator
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance
Las Cruces, NM

David Henkel, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Architecture and Planning
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM

Timothy Treviño
Sr. Director of Strategic Planning & Agency Communications
Alamo Area Council of Governments
San Antonio, TX

Monique La Chappa
Chairwoman
Campo Kumeyaay Tribe
Campo, CA 

Mike Vizzier
Chief, Hazardous Materials Division
County of San Diego
San Diego, CA

Stephen M. Niemeyer, P.E.
Border Affairs Manager and Colonias Coordinator
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Austin, TX

Antonio Noé Zavaleta, Ph.D.
Director
Texas Center for Border and Transnational Studies
University of Texas at Brownsville
Brownsville, TX

U.S. Department of the Interior
Greg Eckert
Restoration Ecologist
USDI - National Park Service
Fort Collins, CO 

U.S. Department of Agriculture - NRCS
Robert M. Apodaca
Asst. Chief - West
USDA/NRCS
Albuquerque, NM

U.S. Department of State
Rachel Poynter
U.S. – Mexico Border Coordinator
Office of Mexican Affairs
U.S. Department of State
Washington, DC 

U.S. Department of Commerce - NOAA
David Kennedy
Assistant Administrator, NOS 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Silver Spring. MD

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Keith Takata
Deputy Regional Administrator
USEPA Region 9
San Francisco, CA

U.S. Department of Transportation
Linda L. Lawson
Director
Safety, Energy and the Environment
U.S. Department of Transportation
Washington, DC 

International Boundary and Water Commission
Edward Drusina
Commissioner
United States Section
International Boundary and Water Commission
El Paso, TX 

U.S. Department of Human and Health Services
Julia Goldberg
Acting General Manager, U.S. Section
Department of Health and Human Services/Office of Global Health Affairs, Office of the Secretary
U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission
El Paso, Texas

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Yolanda Chavez
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Grant Programs
Community Planning and Development
U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development
Washington, DC

U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Dr. Teresa R. Pohlman
Director
Occupational Safety and Environmental Programs
Office of Chief Administrative Officer, Management Directorate
Department of Homeland Security
Washington, DC