In 2001, Dr. Leckman helped initiate the Health Access Project, a program to improve comprehensive health care for low-income individuals in Salt Lake County. More than 600 physicians and all nine hospitals are providing free care to qualified individuals which, since 2002, totals more than $16 million in donated health care. Dr. Natasha DeJarnett is a graduate of the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky where she completed her PhD in Public Health (2013) and Masters of Public Health (2009), both concentrating in environmental health sciences. As a postdoc at the University, she was awarded a fellowship by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to investigate cardiovascular risks of air pollution exposures. In 2015, she became the recipient of the prestigious Impact Award from the Society of Toxicology’s Cardiovascular Toxicology Specialty Section for her 2014 paper “Acrolein Exposure is Associated with Increased Cardiovascular Disease Risk.” Dr. DeJarnett was named the 2017 Alumna of the Year for the University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences and concurrently awarded designation in the class of 2017 Alumni Fellows. Currently, she is a policy analyst in the American Public Health Association’s Center for Public Health Policy where she leads the Natural Environment portfolio which includes air and water exposures along with climate change. With ever-rising energy production and increased use, Saunders believes citizens must create the political will for a sustainable climate, by empowering themselves to exercise their personal and political power. Schneider is a progressive leader in policies related to Climate, Energy, Environment and Ecological Economics, with legislative credentials at the forefront of enlightened policies to drive global environmental responsibility while proactively enhancing U.S. competitiveness. In her spare time, she is an avid gardener and enjoys hiking. Mark Tabbet has been, since 2012, a full time volunteer lobbyist with the Citizens’ Climate Lobby and co-founder of the 1st Orange County Chapter. Mark is a 1969 graduate in Political Science from SMU in Texas, served two years in the Army in Special Services, worked three years for Proctor and Gamble, and then sales-related trading work in the steel industry for twenty years. In 1997 he started his own business doing executive search and later worked as a business broker. In the spring of 2001, Mark completed 15 units of graduate study at the Claremont School of Theology. “The life-changing course I took at Claremont was Earth Ethics, which really enlightened me as to the state of the natural world we live in. Climate Change is but one problem, but the problem with the shortest fuse”. Following postdoctorate work at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography and the University of Bristol, her research focuses on applying a coupled data-model approach to quantitatively reconstruct carbon cycle and climate processes on a warm Earth, particularly in response to episodes of rapid climate change. She specializes in the generation of high-resolution geochemical records from deep-sea sediment cores and interprets these records through development and application of Earth system models that can simulate physical and biogeochemical processes in the atmosphere, oceans, and deep-sea sediments over a variety of timescales.Chairman: Scott Leckman, M.D.
Dr. Leckman, a general surgeon in Salt Lake City, is chairman of the board of directors of RESULTS and the RESULTS Educational Fund, which work to create the political will to end the worst aspects of poverty.
Board Member: Dr. Natasha DeJarnett
Treasurer: Marshall Saunders
Before founding Citizens’ Climate Education, Marshall Saunders,a successful businessman turned philanthropist, personally facilitated millions of microcredit loans in the developing world as a RESULTS volunteer. He is one of only six recipients of the Grameen Humanitarian Award and has served as chairman of the board of Grameen de la Frontera, a microcredit lender in Sonora, Mexico.
Board Member: Claudine Schneider
Former Republican Congresswoman Claudine Schneider represented Rhode Island’s 2nd district from 1981-1991. She has served on the faculty of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, co-founded and served as vice president of Energia Global, and now specializes in ecological economics.
Board Member: Zinovia Spezakis, CFA
As Managing Director of Allianz Global Investors, Zinovia Spezakis was responsible for the operations and risk management of $130 billion in assets. After 20 years as an investment management executive with specialties in operations and social media, she moved to the cleantech industry. She is now a director of Ecolectro Inc., a clean tech start-up, and a member of the Cornell University Atkinson’s Center Alumni Advisory Board – Sustainability. She is interested in ways to draw down greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.Secretary: Mark Tabbert
Mark Tabbert had a 23-year sales-related trading career before starting his own trading and brokerage business. An experienced broker in the small- business world, he serves on the boards of the the Orange County Interfaith Coalition for the Environment and the Banning Ranch Conservancy.Board Member: Sandra Kirtland Turner
Sandra Kirtland Turner is an assistant professor of paleoclimatology and paleoceanography at University of California, Riverside.