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Dorothy Clark
is a longtime Jamaica Plain resident, a writer as well as a singer, instrumentalist and recording artist. She has also studied contemporary improvisation at the New England Conservatory. 
Anne Lusk, PhD. is currently a Research Fellow at Harvard School of Public Health.  In Stowe, Vermont, she was appointed by the Stowe Selectmen to be Chair of the restoration of the old Stowe High School, now the Stowe Library and Art Center. She also helped put 124 houses in Stowe on the National Register of Historic Places.  She was the creator of the award-winning Stowe Recreation Path.        

In Vermont, she helped found the Vermont Trails and Greenways Council and the Vermont Bicycle and Pedestrian Coalition and served on a variety of state, county, and community transportation committees. She was a member of the Vermont Board of Forests, Parks, and Recreation, Vermont Recreation and Park Association, and Vermont Urban and Community Forestry program. In Vermont, she also created the organization Single Volunteers that, after being featured in TIME magazine, fostered Single Volunteer organizations worldwide. Dr. Lusk earned a Ph.D. in Architecture at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning with a major in Environment and Behavior and a minor in Urban Planning.         

Dr. Lusk additionally holds a Masters in fashion design from Les Ecoles de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne from Paris, France, a Masters of Arts in Teaching with a specialization in Historic Preservation from the University of Vermont, and a Masters of Science in Architecture from the University of Michigan. (more)
 
Hugh Mattison has been a political and environmental activist in Brookline for almost 30 years. A founding member of the Brookline GreenSpace Alliance, Brookline Civic Association and the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, he has worked on issues as varied as restoration of Olmsted Park and instituting a residential waste recycling program.

He is an elected Town Meeting Member from Precinct 5, and the Chairman of Brookline’s Tree Planting Committee.

He is now active in restoration of the Carlton Street Footbridge and founded Friends of Pinebank.
William Powell, AIA - Brookline architect William Powell, has over thirty years of experience in the profession and has been licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts since 1982.  He founded his solo residential practice, William Powell Architect (WPArchitect.com), in 1993 and is a member of the Boston Society of Architects and the American Institute of Architects.

He also serves his neighborhood as an elected Town Meeting Member, and the Town as an appointed member of the Advisory Committee, and Chair of its Planning & Regulations Subcommittee.

In Brookline, he has participated in numerous community and neighborhood issues and committees involved with the design review of town projects and building preservation, and a broad range of citizen concerns including the 2002-05 efforts to save historic St. Aidans Church.