Nichole Goodman
Policy Director
Nichole directs policy for the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado; policies which promote the people, planet, profit practice and advance sustainability. Her background includes extensive public policy work for state-based and national grassroots organizations; including coordinating a statewide campaign to facilitate voter education and increase public participation in the political process regarding land use and development in Colorado. Her career also includes several business development and marketing positions in the finance industry where she gained valuable experience in the business sector. Nichole devotes much of her free time to volunteering for organizations which share her passion for preserving the economic, social and environmental prosperity of Colorado. At the University of Colorado – Boulder, she earned her BA in Environmental Studies with an emphasis on decision making, planning and public policy.
Jeff Hohensee
Director of Strategic Partnerships
Jeff Hohensee has worked as a leader in sustainability, education and business for over 35 years. As a teenager, Jeff ran nature programs for the Boy Scouts and worked as a backpacking guide in the Sierras. In his twenties, he worked for Barclays and Fuji Banks in corporate finance, analyzing businesses and streamlining client cash flows. After a five-year stint teaching third grade, Jeff moved to the nonprofit sector where he has worked since 1993. At the Los Angeles nonprofit, TreePeople, Jeff led a team that built service learning programs that inspired over 100,000 teenagers to lead projects to improve the environment in their neighborhoods, and also worked with the California Department of Education to develop a statewide network to coordinate the efforts of over 3,000 environmental education programs. After moving to Colorado, Jeff served as the CEO of Natural Capitalism Solutions, where he built up their corporate consulting practice to serve Fortune 100 companies, mid-sized and small businesses with collective revenues totaling over 3 percent of U.S. GDP. Jeff lives with his wife in a net-zero home in the mountains outside Boulder. He came to the Alliance with a passion for a sustainable future and a long-held desire to have fun working with good people to change the world for the better.
Kim Hughes
Interactive Media Coordinator
Kim is responsible for coordinating the social media presence of the Alliance, the graphic design of Alliance collateral, creating videos that document the Alliance’s work, managing and updating content on the website and documenting the Alliance Center Building Renovation project through visual mediums. For her first two years at the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado, she worked as an administrative assistant, responsible for receptionist, office management, assistant and data entry duties. Before joining the Alliance, Kim worked for a nonprofit consulting firm in marketing and event coordination. Immediately after college, she volunteered full-time for The Gathering Place (Denver’s only daytime shelter for at-risk and homeless women and children) through Americorps. There, she was a Program Assistant. Hailing from the Southeast, she graduated from Elon University in North Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Corporate Communications with an emphasis on Marketing Design. Throughout her college years, she ran multiple pro bono public relations campaigns for local nonprofits. Now a Denver resident, she loves spending time in the mountains hiking or skiing and exploring new restaurants and cultural scenes in the city.
Joanne Keys
Executive Director
As Executive Director, Joanne is responsible for the overall mission and success of the organization. She brings over 20 years of management and executive level experience in the business and technology sectors, including as a Vice President with American Management Systems (a Fortune 500 company) and, most recently, as the President of NANA Pacific (an Alaskan-native owned technology corporation). She has spent many years managing multi-continental/multi-cultural projects and businesses, and looks forward to helping the Alliance incorporate a broader business perspective into the sustainability arena. Ms. Keys has always had a passion for the environment, having served for many years in volunteer wildland firefighting and in Search and Rescue in remote locations. This includes over six years in Antarctica supporting the US Antarctic Program’s scientific missions. These experiences solidified her passion for the environment and for planetary sustainability. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Tech.
Stephanie Kort
Accountant
Stephanie manages the Alliance finances by preparing bookkeeping and transactional accounting functions, creating client invoices, processing all transactions (payroll, A/P, A/R, GL management, cash flow, accounting management), administering employee benefits and managing the administrative aspects of our tenant leases. She also assists in the transactional/clerical aspects of staff management and in the development of budgets. Before joining the Alliance team, Stephanie worked as a small-business accounting intern at EKS&H and helped with bookkeeping for her uncle’s business (CADE Oil & Gas, LLC). Besides spending four years in Tucson getting her Bachelor’s Degree at the University of Arizona, Stephanie was born and raised in Colorado. In her free time she loves to be active, meet new people, and try new things around Colorado!
Justine Meihsner
Administrative Assistant
Justine is responsible for reception, office management, data entry duties and helping out each program area. Before joining the Alliance, Justine worked for Natural Capitalism Solutions (NCS). As Assistant Program Manager & Research Associate at NCS, Justine helped assist in the development and launch of an innovative online educational tool to provide efficiency and sustainability training programs for small businesses. During her time at NCS she also assisted in client research, supported accounting, and attended and participated in presentations and outreach and educational events throughout the community, establishing relationships with community partners and various local organizations. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Business with a Sustainability concentration through the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Some of her passions include hiking, camping, rock climbing, and exploring Colorado.
Megan Moore
Events & Communications Manager
As Events and Communications Manager, Megan is in charge of overseeing all Alliance events such as the Annual Heroes of Sustainability Awards, Speaker’s Series and Monthly Dine-a-logue Luncheon Series. She also assists the Education & Outreach Director on external communication pieces including the quarterly Catalyst newsletter and the monthly Sustainable Business Network newsletter. Megan attended Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama where she earned a degree in Marketing, and served as a member of the College’s Executive Society. Prior to joining the Alliance in January of 2011, Megan worked as an Event Manager for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Colorado-Wyoming Chapter where she ran the organization’s largest event – Bike MS, which boasted over 3,000 event participants. She also worked with Kroenke Sports Enterprises and the Colorado Rapids where she assisted in the opening of their brand new, state-of-the-art soccer stadium. In her spare time, Megan takes advantage of everything Colorado has to offer. She enjoys skiing, white water rafting, exploring new restaurants, and watching SEC football.
Zach Owens
Education & Outreach Coordinator
Zach expands the statewide sustainability network by developing Regional Sustainability Councils and organizing regional and statewide Sustainability Roundtable Meetings. He is passionate about interdisciplinary approaches to community, regional, and statewide sustainability initiatives. Zach graduated with a B.S. in Biochemistry from Regis University in 2009. While at Regis, he served as the first Director of Sustainability in student government, where he helped establish bus pass, recycling, and community garden programs on campus. Zach also spent three years working with the Greenpeace Student Network and served as a Days of Action Coordinator on the first Greenpeace Student Board. As a board member, he assisted students at universities across the country with organizing environmental awareness campaigns and events on their campuses. Zach practices yoga and enjoys painting in his spare time.
Jason Page
Technology Manager
Jason is the point person for all technology needs; this involves administering the website, managing our company database, and providing desktop support for the rest of our staff and office equipment. Jason has administered microcredit loan programs for Denver entrepreneurs, explored fair trade and international development first hand in South and Southeast Asia, and assisted his family business in caring for elderly individuals with dementia. He is a firm believer that our society must establish a deeper sense of community and accountability and looks forward to working towards expanding this view across the state. As a Colorado native, Jason loves the beauty and simplicity of the outdoors and welcomes any opportunity to get outside the city limits. He graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a degree in Finance, minor in Economics, and was two courses short of an Information Systems degree.
Tom Prugh
Senior Researcher
Tom writes and edits materials used to support the Alliance’s mission, raise consciousness about the importance of sustainability and the means to achieve it, and communicate Alliance goals and accomplishments to a variety of audiences. His first job was as a jail counselor, but since then he has accumulated over 25 years of experience as a writer/editor, published two books and many articles on sustainability and related topics, and served for six years as editor in chief of World Watch magazine and as a contributor to State of the World, both published by the Worldwatch Institute. He has spoken on sustainability issues in the U.K., Uruguay and Bosnia as well as in the United States.
Phillip Saieg, LEED AP O+M
Director of Sustainable Building
Phillip comes to the Alliance with widespread management and green-building experience, most recently from a company called Think Design Build. Along with a bachelor’s degree in Theology and a bachelor’s degree in Communications, a green-building certification from CSU, and a LEED AP designation, Phillip is excited to put together his hands-on work experience and sustainability education to serve the Alliance and all its tenants. Since growing up just outside of Detroit and moving to Denver in 2001, Phillip has studied at Oxford University, taught high school in Kenya, and has led a wide variety of teams, ranging from youth construction projects in the United States, to medical work in the Peruvian Andes, to photo-journalism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to children’s work in Uzbekistan. Throughout his extensive travel, he has seen and experienced the effects of irresponsible living, and is very excited and motivated to work here at home for a sustainable Colorado.
Janna Six
Special Projects Director
Janna Six is the Special Projects Director for the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado. Currently she oversees collaborative efforts to increase literacy about sustainability in the education sector. By creating, maintaining and leveraging relationships with community leaders and partner organizations, Janna is helping to build a network supporting the next generation of leaders who will improve community well-being, protect natural resources, and maintain healthy economies over the next century. Janna has been involved with education about sustainability issues in Colorado for over 20 years. Prior to co-founding the Alliance in 2004, Janna was a consultant to a number of organizations ranging from the Educational Foundation of America to Project Learning Tree, Population Connection, and Sierra Club. Projects ranged from creating educational materials to researching effective nonprofit efforts and speaking to student and adult audiences, including the media. Janna received a Colorado Energy Champion Award from the Colorado Office of Energy Management and Conservation for green building educational materials and has served on the Governor Romer’s Pollution Prevention Advisory Board. Earlier experiences included a teaching assignment in the US Peace Corps in Dominica, West Indies, and teaching middle school reading/ English classes in CO. She holds a MS degree in environmental education from Colorado State University and a BS degree with honors in education from the University of Colorado at Denver.
Chris Woldum, LEED AP O+M
Alliance Center Manager
Chris manages the operation and maintenance of the Alliance Center. Prior to joining the Alliance, Chris acted as Project Manager for Blue Urban Development, a St. Louis-based urban real estate developer specializing in large-scale historic renovation projects. While at Blue Urban, Chris acted as the owner’s representative on several unique adaptive-reuse warehouse renovations throughout Missouri. Chris developed an interest in sustainability and the non-profit sector while acting as a volunteer for Gateway Greening, a 501(c)3 specializing in community food projects, education and wellness programs and civic greening initiatives. Along with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Chris studied International Business at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Chris is a LEED AP, O+M and is currently studying for his Building Design & Construction credential.
Anna Zawisza
Education & Outreach Director
Anna manages the Education and Outreach Program area and also serves as the Deputy Director for the Alliance. She is responsible for advancing sustainability by increasing awareness of issues and building Colorado’s sustainability network. She is committed to working with all sectors of society in order to create a greater impact on sustainability. Prior to joining the nonprofit sector, Anna spent 12 years in the student loan industry focused on sales and marketing. Anna earned her B.S. in Management Science at SUNY Geneseo in 1994 and completed her M.B.A at Webster University in 2003. She studied abroad at Oxford University, New College and has traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. Anna’s passion for sustainability grew out of her love of the outdoors – she skis, hikes, camps and spends as much time as possible in the woods.
