Public Sustainability Partnership Board of Directors
Bridgett Luther
As Director of the Department of Conservation, Bridgett Luther oversees a budget of $1.3 billion for a wide range of programs including land resource protection, beverage container recycling, geologival survey, mine reclamation, and oversight for oil, gas, and geothermal production. Previously she was the national development director for REP America (Republicans for Environmental Protection), which supports pro-environment Republicans. She helped create the first recycling program in the history of North Carolina's Mechlenburg County, led campaigns to create neighborhood parks and acquire land to protect the region's water quality, and founded the Carolinas office of the Trust for Public Land, a national land conservation organization.
Laurie Park
Laurie Park, President and founder of The Public Sustainability Partnership, has more than 25 years of experience in the planning and management of energy and water resources and infrastructure. She assisted the California Energy Commission in developing its landmark finding that signficant benefits could be achieved through integrated management of the State's water and energy systems. Ms. Park designed and manages the California Sustainability Alliance, an initiative that brings together diverse public and private entities to collaborate in finding and leveraging the "tipping points" to market transformation around sustainability. Prior to joining Navigant Consulting, she managed Hetch Hetchy Water and Power, the City and County of San Francisco's water and power utility.
Paula Mints
Paula Mints, a Director with Navigant Consulting and executive editor of the solar industry’s leading publication, Solar Outlook Quarterly Newsletter, is widely recognized as an industry expert on photovoltaic (PV) technologies and markets. She provides clients with objective, comprehensive PV industry analysis based on extensive primary research, including her forward-looking understanding of market and technology trends. Paula’s strong grounding in primary research qualifies her to provide insight into the dynamic solar industry and its emerging trends. She has ten years of experience providing research products and insight about the photovoltaic industry. Paula writes articles for Renewable Energy World and is a contributing columnist for Renewable Energy Focus.
Sheila Slocum Hollis
Sheila Hollis specializes in domestic and international energy, water and environmental matters. She was the first Director of the Office of Enforcement of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the first woman to serve as President of the Federal Energy Bar Association. She served as President of the Women’s Council on Energy and the Environment from 1997-2002 and received its Woman of the Year award in 2003. She is the first person to serve as both President of the Energy Bar and Chair of the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources. Ms. Hollis was ranked by the National Law Journal as one of the Nation’s top 20 energy lawyers and one of “50 Key Women in Energy” in 2003 and 2004 in a worldwide selection process.