Executive Director
Cynthia D’Agosta
A Bay Area native, Cynthia holds a Masters in Landscape Architecture (MLA) from Harvard and a BS in Science and Fine Arts from UC Santa Cruz. She’s led organizations and programs through implementing projects and policies affecting the environment. Her community involvement and work experiences cover a wide range of leadership and team work on open space planning and natural resource protection.
   
Cynthia joined Committee for Green Foothills in May of 2008 after serving eight years as the first Executive Director of the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority. Prior to returning to the Bay Area in 2000, Cynthia worked in So Cal on river restoration, park, trails, and open space planning for the County of Los Angeles and the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority, a JPA of the Santa Monica Mountains State Conservancy. As the President of So Cal Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA), Cynthia won awards for her collaborative work on the Los Angeles River. In addition her work has included General Plan updates for Acadia National Park, Open Space Reservation planning for the Boston Metropolitan District Commission Parks, designing residential developments for private firms in So Cal, and research on the history of planning for urban natural areas.
   
Cynthia is also a visual artist who uses landscapes as her inspiration and often her medium. Her true passion lies in empowering communities and organizations to effectively advocate for natural resource preservation in developing urban areas.

Development Director
Paul Davis
Bio to come.

Environmental Advocate, Santa Clara County
Julie Hutcheson
Julie lives in Morgan Hill, where she has been an active Community Advocate, most recently as the founder of Thrive! Morgan Hill, a volunteer group of residents working on issues that affect the quality of life in the City of Morgan Hill, and which supports plans that balance the community, the economy, and the environment. In the past she has provided organizational coordinator services to CGF and the South Valley Environmental Collaborative for their work on land use issues affecting south Santa Clara County and the Pajaro Watershed.

Legislative Advocate, San Mateo & Santa Clara Counties
Alice Kaufman
Alice is a graduate of UC Hastings Law School and the University of Chicago. Her experience as an environmental lawyer includes several years at the Environmental Law Foundation in Oakland, where she worked to enforce laws regarding toxics disclosure, lead paint hazards, and other environmental issues. More recently, Alice has been working as a community activist in Redwood City fighting the massive Cargill/DMB Saltworks development. She is also active with Redwood City public schools and local education issues. Alice's relationship with CGF began in 2009, when she contributed CEQA comments on behalf of CGF in opposition to a development on the San Mateo County coast. She then joined CGF's Board of Directors and is now on staff as a Legislative Advocate.

Development Assistant
Karin Lim
Bio to come.

Legislative Advocate, San Mateo County
Lennie Roberts
For more than 30 years, Lennie Roberts has been the voice of Committee for Green Foothills in San Mateo County. One of the Bay Area’s most respected environmental leaders, Roberts has led CGF in a number of critical open space battles on the San Mateo Coast and along Skyline. She is a vigilant and attentive watchdog of the County Board of Supervisors, and helped found the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District in 1972.

Roberts has received a number of honors and awards, including the Carla Bard Award from the Planning and Conservation League, Conservationist of the Year from the Peninsula Conservation Center, the Josephine Duveneck Award from the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club, and Greenbelt Alliance's Greenbelt Champion Award for her work to preserve the San Mateo County coastside. She was elected to the San Mateo County Women's Hall of Fame in 2003, and has been honored as a Coastal Champion on the 25th Anniversary of the California Coastal Act. In 2009 she was named the San Francisco Bay Area's Cox Conserves Hero, which noted her thousands of hours of volunteer work towards coastal protection.

She holds a B.A. in Art from Stanford University. Lennie continues to work for protection of our irreplaceable natural resources and open space lands, from the farm fields and scenic vistas of the San Mateo coastside, to the forests of the Skyline area and along the shores of San Francisco Bay.

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