Officers

• George Plumb – Co-Chair
  George retired from being in charge of recreation for the VT. Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation in 1996. He began his environmental activism in the 1980’s when he joined the movement to stop the building of the massive Hydro-Quebec dams that were doing so much harm to Quebec’s environment and the indigenous people. As an exempt state employee he took the risk of losing his job because the dams were supported by the administration. He now devotes more than half his time to environmental issues. He is a founder or co-founder of several environmental related organizations including the VT. Trails and Greenways Council, the VT. Bicycle and Pedestrian Coalition, the VT. Earth Institute, and Vermonters for a Sustainable Population. In recent years George has become internationally known for his research, writings, and innovative work on population.
• Linn Duvall Harwell - Co-Chair
  Linn has been a professional volunteer in the family planning field for almost four decades.  She served as a counselor at both the Philadelphia General Hospital and the Bryn Mawr Hospital.  She participated in the first UN International Conference on Population Growth in Bucharest, Romania, in 1974, and also at the Third UN Population Conference in Cairo, Egypt, in 1994. She has been especially active in the pro-choice movement and the struggle to provide family planning education and services both here in the U.S. and through global programs working in  the developing world.  Linn has received a number of awards over the years, from Planned Parenthood, the Red Cross, and the League of Women voters, which elected her to the National Women’s Wall of Fame in Seneca Falls, NY in 1996. Linn has been married for 68 years, and has two sons, two daughters and four grandchildren.
• Henry Barbaro – Treasurer
  Henry lives in Boston with his wife, stepdaughter, and son. He has a Bachelor’s of Science in Environmental Science, and a Master’s of Science in Natural Resource Planning, and has worked as a community planner and environmental scientist for more than 25 years. Henry has developed six “environmental management & population” lessons, and as a volunteer instructor has taught them to junior high science classes. Henry has been a population activist since 1991, and has had a variety of letters-to-the-editor, pertaining to population issues, published in the Boston Globe. During college, Henry first became interested in how population growth drives environmental degradation. Soon thereafter, working as a regional planner, he observed that all municipal master plans started by citing population projections, as if it were accepted and understood that these communities were committed to do whatever it took to accommodate the projected growth. Moreover, he witnessed that, regardless of what environmental regulations are in place, reduction in the quality of life and environmental integrity is inevitable as populations grow.
• Mareen Harwell – Secretary
  Mareen has an MS in Creative Arts Therapy from Hahneman University, and currently serves as the Activities Director, Independent Living, Keystone Woods, Springfield, MA.  Growing up as Linn Harwell’s daughter has given her a lifetime of perspective on the ways that population growth and rampant development have affected the New England environment and quality of lie. Mareen is an avid nature-watcher and a longtime member of the Naturalist Club of Springfield, VT.

Other Directors

• Peter Ames
  Peter Ames is a graduate of Harvard Law School and has worked in nonprofits all his life, including two focused on supporting international family planning. His law school Thesis, "Towards a Population Treaty," suggested that the US condition foreign aid on recipient countries making family planning tools available to all. The tipping point of his commitment to the cause was realizing in 1968 that raising the percentage of planned/wanted Births significantly would have a fantastically positive impact on The planet and human life.
• Mark Powell
  Mark Powell lives in Worcester with his wife and son, and has been researching and writing about population growth, and in particular the politics of U.S. population growth, for over a decade. His writing has appeared in Wildlife Conservation Magazine, Population and Environment, and a number of Vermont publications.  As a spokesperson for Vermonters for Sustainable Population, Mark  has discussed immigration and U.S. population growth on panels aired by Vermont Public Television and  Onion River Community Access TV.  Mark is currently writing a book on the politics of U.S. population growth.   Mark is also the Network Administrator for Vermont Adult Learning, a statewide provider of basic education and job-readiness skills. 
• Kenneth Roy
  Ken Roy lives in Lovell, Maine after retiring from several decades of employment at the University of Alaska. He is an avid outdoors men and athlete, playing hockey in college and more recently participating in marathons in New England. Ken views U.S. population growth as unsustainable today, and believes that only by reducing both legal and illegal immigration can we protect the U.S. and the global environment for future generations. In addition to his athletic and wilderness activities, Ken enjoys playing guitar, harmonic and violin, and was a member of a local band during his years in Alaska.

ADD Advisory Board

• Martha Campbell; PhD, President, Venture Strategies for Health and Development
• Marilyn Hempel;  Founder, Blue Planet United
• Vicky Markham; Director, Center for Environment and Population
• Betsy McGean; Development Director, Trust for Public Land
• William J. Ryerson; President, Population Media Center
• Steven Sinding; Past Director General, International Planned Parenthood Federation
• Fred Meyerson; PhD, University of Rhode Island  MARK will get details