Environmental Partnerships, Inc.

Who We Are

Environmental Partnerships is organized in a project structure. It has a full time Executive Director, an active board, and board committees supporting different program initiatives.

Executive Director

For the past 8 years Susan Youmans has worked with a variety of local and national grassroots and professional organizations concerned with environmental health, community development, urban food security and community gardens. She recently chaired a committee on genetic modification of plants for Episcopal Church’s Committee on Science, Technology and Faith and worked to develop guidelines for policy development on GM food by faith communities. She has an MBA from the Wharton School of Finance, University of PA, and she has several years' experience as a management consultant at Arthur D. Little, in Cambridge, MA. She is also a seminary-trained laywoman.

Board of Directors

Bob Brooks
A landscape architect and partner at The Halvorson Company, Halvorson, Boston, he has been responsible for designs of public space including Orchard Gardens in Roxbury and the Mt Greylock Environmental Education Center for THE Appalachain Mountain Club. Bob also serves on the stewardship committee and is responsible for redesign of the Cloister Garden at Church of the Epiphany, Winchester.

Walter Daniel
Past President of Union of Black Episcopalians, he was a member of search committees for two of the three bishops currently serving the Episcopal Diocese of MA. He is also Board Chair of the St. Johns’and St. James’ Episcopal School, Roxbury, MA.

Lila Frederick
Roxbury resident and a long-time urban social justice organizer, she is President of the Board of Project Right, a nurse, and an active member of the Cathedral of St Paul (Episcopal) parish in Boston.

Lindsay McSweeney
Lindsay worked for many years as an officer at Bank Boston. She is now the sole proprietor of a business that does small event catering and culinary instruction. She also writes on food and cooking for the internet and community newspapers. See Supporting Community Agriculture, from Winchester Star, Thursday February 19, 2004.

Founding Board members included Amanda Cather, Maria Van Dusen, Jill Stein, and Matthew Goode.

The board also includes Liz Reinhardt, a lawyer specializing in nonprofit governance, and Margaret Murphy, fundraising consultant. As well as having about 30 individual volunteers, EP focuses heavily on building and using organizational relationship - with about 30 churches and a dozen secular environmental organizations.