F4CR is driven by a small team from diverse backgrounds
Our team members come from across the U.S. and around the world. They have experience in nonprofit management, corporate partnerships, poverty reduction, UN partnerships, fundraising, hospitality, coalition-building, and more. This geographic and topical diversity allows us to take on climate restoration with a broad range of tools and perspectives.
Dr. Erica Dodds holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Evaluation and an M.A. in International Development Administration. Erica’s lifelong interest in poverty reduction led her to study abroad in West Africa, intern with an NGO in rural India, and work for the Evaluation Office of the International Labour Organization in Geneva. She is committed to seeing climate action work for today’s youth in addition to future generations, and she believes that the key is setting a goal of restoring a safe and healthy climate.
Myra Khan is the Coordinator at the Foundation for Climate Restoration. Previous to her time with F4CR, Myra worked with various environmental and humanitarian organizations for climate justice and the rights of asylum seekers. She has done conservation field work in the U.S., Costa Rica, Malta, and Indonesia.
Sharon Fiekowsky is a Nurse Practitioner with 17 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as extensive clinical experience in intensive care, hospice/palliative care, and pain management.
Sandra is CEO and Founder of 10Power, a certified Benefit Corporation providing renewable energy in international communities that lack access to electricity. In Haiti, 10Power has developed and financed solar projects on water purification centers, health organizations and major international organizations. Previously, Sandra worked with AutoGrid using big data from smart meters to save energy. She sees renewable energy as the key to providing clean water, gender empowerment and access to regenerative technology – a concept explored in her TEDx talk “Fourth World Nation Building.”
Alan Hyman is is a Vietnam-era military veteran and Stanford University graduate. In addition to his work at Fremont Bank, he was a long-time director of the San Francisco Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He is a current member of the Holy Names University Board of Trustees, a Board Member of the Fremont Bank Foundation, and a founding board member of Americans for Philanthropy, a non-profit dedicated to the eradication of extreme poverty.
Nicole Gardner is a retired vice president of IBM’s Global Services and the co-author of a United Nations technology standard. She has launched and managed businesses at IBM and PwC ranging from $100M to $1.4B. Nicole was the first Chief Innovation Officer for IBM’s Global Services Public Sector and the first Human Capital Management practice leader. In her role with the United Nations, she collaborated with senior leaders across industries to forge a widely accepted global standard. She has served large commercial entities including Baxter Healthcare, ExxonMobil, ARMCO Specialty Steel, Cummins Engine Company and First National Bank of Chicago. In 2017 and 2018, Nicole was recognized as a FederalHealthIT 100 and in 2018 received accolades with a Women in Leadership Impact Award.
Ashley Meeky is a junior at Vanderbilt University. She is pursuing a B.S. degree in Human and Organizational Development, a B.A. degree in Economics, and a minor degree in Communication Studies. Ashley created the Youth Leaders 4 Climate Restoration certification program, which is now a full program at F4CR. She is also a Content Creator Ambassador for Beauty and Brains Organization, Assistant Director of Marketing and Finance for the Vanderbilt Black Student Leadership Conference, and Head of Onboarding for the Vanderbilt Impact Investing Group. She is an advocate for climate restoration, inclusivity, women’s empowerment, and domestic violence awareness. For fun, she enjoys playing tennis and serving as Practice Coordinator for Vanderbilt’s Club Tennis team. In her spare time, she operates her personal hair care business called Hair Chronicles by Ashley.
Tom Baruch currently originates startup companies focused on resource scarce and climate sensitive markets (energy, air quality, water, food and agriculture, and health care) out of his family office, Baruch Future Ventures, Ltd. (BFV, LTD.) located in San Francisco, CA. In addition, Tom serves as a Sr. Adviser to Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) where he sources investment opportunities and works actively as a counselor to BEV investment partners and startup company CEOs and Founders.
Melanie Trent is currently serving as the F4CR chapter chairperson in the Rocky Mountain region. Over the years Melanie has served as a member of the Office of Energy Conservation in Colorado, was a co-founder of Recycle the Park, a recycling nonprofit, co-founder and chair of the Platte Canyon Outdoor Resource Council and served as the county representative to the Healthy Communities Initiative in Colorado along with filling a variety of other roles related to environmental & community advocacy. Melanie is a retired Respiratory Therapist with expertise in project & program development, training & management.
David Batuski
David Batuski is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Maine, working in cosmology, exoplanets, active galaxies, and supernova research and teaching astronomy and physics courses. He has long practiced minimizing his individual climate impact by commuting to work on foot, recycling, discarding little as waste, etc., and recently F4CR has inspired him with the real possibility of climate restoration through organizational action.
In a previous chapter of life, David graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy with an Astronautical Engineering major and then obtained a masters degree in Aero/Astro Engineering from Purdue University. His active duty tours as an Air Force officer involved launch support for Air Force and NASA satellites at Cape Canaveral and later development of high-energy laser beam control systems.
Joan Bordow
Joan Bordow has led programs for over 20,000 people, at one of the world’s top training and development organizations.
In 1970, Joan’s first book, was published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston. She went on to write seven other books, including The Ultimate Loss, Integral Yoga Hatha, and Bread: Making It the Natural Way.
She was also Executive Director of The Holiday Project, a national organization whose hundreds of volunteers made thousands of visits to hospitals, retirement homes, homeless shelters and juvenile detention centers. Also, she co-created and managed The Moscow Marathon Project, which brought hundreds of American runners to the Soviet Union in the ‘80’s, to raise money for and foster awareness about ending world hunger.
Joan lives in Petaluma, CA, with her spouse Robin. She is the mother of three daughters and has three grandchildren.
Julia Dederer
Julia Dederer is a transformational coach in Silicon Valley with over 30 years experience supporting leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives to take the reach and scope of their impact to the next level.
Diane Warren
Diane earned her degree in Social Work with a minor in Philosophy. She is interested in Buddhism and devoted to volunteering. During her career she worked in a private group home for intellectually challenged adult women, a private psychiatric hospital, and as a caseworker handling employment services and child protective services.
When she moved to San Francisco she began volunteering with The Hunger Project, RESULTS, and Waldorf Schools.
After her children went off to college, she used her time to volunteer with the Citizens Climate Lobby, Healthy Climate Alliance, and F4CR as a grassroots volunteer and donor.
Sharon Fiekowsky is a Nurse Practitioner with 17 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as extensive clinical experience in intensive care, hospice/palliative care, and pain management.
Peter Fiekowsky is an MIT-educated physicist and engineer, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, and a social innovator. He has worked at NASA and the Fairchild/ Schlumberger Artificial Intelligence Lab in Palo Alto, Calif; taught at MIT; and developed his own machine vision company, Automated Visual Inspection LLC (AVI).
He holds 27 patents and is on the board of Climate Capex, a fintech company to help complete the global transition to 100 percent clean energy by 2040 by tripling the rate of investment in solar projects.
A decade ago, when it became clear that global warming would endanger all our futures, Fiekowsky turned his energies to restoring a climate that will promote the flourishing of humanity and the Earth’s current ecosystems. He launched the Foundation for Climate Restoration in 2017 to work with top scientists, innovators, policymakers, and others, to create the understanding and policy needed to further climate restoration, and served as its Board Chairman until 2020.
Fiekowsky has worked closely with academic and entrepreneurial leaders who are developing viable, scalable, and permanent solutions that constitute the climate-restoration path.
He has been an investor in and advisor to many companies working in the climate restoration field, in particular synthetic limestone, clean energy financing, cold fusion, ocean restoration, kelp, and methane oxidation.
Fiekowsky lives with his wife Sharon in Los Altos, near his grown son and daughter in the heart of Silicon Valley.
In the 1970s a pioneer of socially responsible investing, in 1982 a founding board member of the Calvert Funds—first family of such funds now with $17 billion under management, orchestrated sale of Ben & Jerry’s to Unilever that assured it remain a socially responsible company forever with Dr. Mollner on the board the last 18 years to facilitate the transition, since 1972 Founder and Chair of Trusteeship Institute best known for introducing the Mondragon Cooperatives to the US and for in the 1980s stimulating the creation in the US of Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP) legislation, and author of Common Good Capitalism Is Inevitable and Our Mutual Blind Spot Since Our Invention of Words: HOW We Answer 7 Questions Will Mature Humanity.
