Mike Barry retired from the EPA Region in 2019 with 35+ years of experience in hazardous materials release and site cleanup response. He has served as the Incident Commander on multiple deployments to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, the Durango Colorado Gold King Mine Release in 2015, and Hurricane’s Sandy and Katrina. During his tenure at EPA, Mike has overseen the cleanup of several large residential sites and responded to a variety of chemical and oil releases. Prior to joining the EPA in 1997, Mike cleaned up Army hazardous waste sites at Fort Devens, was a production manager in a chemical plant and served in the submarine navy. In his free time, Mike is very active in the Appalachian Mountain Club both as an active bike and cross-country ski trips leader and in club governance since 1994 holding a wide variety of roles within the club, including serving on the Club’s Board of Directors from 2009-2015.

He has served on the Friends of the Alewife Reservation Advisory Board (a sub-group) of Green Cambridge since 2019.

Rona Gregory has lived in North Cambridge for more than forty years. She spent her career first as an academic librarian at MIT and then as an environmental lawyer at EPA working on issues of environmental justice, hazardous waste cleanup, and brownfields redevelopment. She maintains strong interests in protecting the Alewife Reservation from further encroachment and in ensuring that its edges are designed to welcome all into one of the few urban wilds in the Boston area.

Eric is passionate about having access to natural areas is critical for human health and well-being, particularly in densely settled hard urban landscapes where many people live is a precious resource that should be protected, maintained and improved. He works at Cambridge Energy Advisors doing business development and impact investment. Previously, Eric was a filmmaker, serving as co-producer of The Last Mountain, a movie about mountaintop removal in West Virginia. He's also co-founder of Friends of Jerry's Pond in Cambridge.

Greg is founding editor of Pangyrus LitMag and founder and co-director of Harvard LITfest. As faculty at Harvard University, Greg has been recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Oregon’s Regional Arts and Culture Council. A degree candidate in conservation biology at Miami University of Ohio's Project Dragonfly, he is currently researching a book on environmental education's role in combating climate change. His short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Harvard Review, Jewish Fiction, Earth Island Journal, and the New Voices Project: Contemporary Writers Confronting the Holocaust. His audiorecording “Champion of Hot Peppers” won a 2001 National Parenting Publications Association Gold Medal for storytelling. His translation of Seno Gumira Ajidarma’s novel Jazz, Perfume, and the Incident was published as part of the Modern Library of Indonesia (2012).

Ryan works as a Sustainability Projects Coordinator working with Massachusetts State Government to reduce energy use and support environmental sustainability efforts. Previously, he worked as a service coordinator at the New England Aquarium for the live blue Service Corps to remove barriers to service to engage volunteers in conservation action.

David has lived in North Cambridge for the past 16 years. He loves running and walking on trails, and have explored every trail within the Alewife reservation. He works as a transportation planner at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, working to develop a regional trails system.

HONORARY MEMBER

Ellen was president of the Friends of Alewife Reservation until July 2019, when it became part of Green Cambridge. In her retirement, she remains a resource for our work in the Alewife Reservation and continues to be devoted to a protected and sustainable environment.