Staff and Board Biographies

Staff

Daniel Imhoff, Co-founder, director, and publisher. Dan Imhoff is a researcher, author, and independent publisher who has concentrated for nearly 20 years on issues related to farming, the environment, and design. He is the author of numerous articles, essays, and books including Food Fight: The Citizen’s Guide to a Food and Farm Bill, Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World; Farming with the Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity on Farms and Ranches; and Building with Vision: Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood.

Dan is a highly sought-after public speaker who lectures and conducts workshops on a variety of topics, from food and farming, to environmental design and conservation. He has appeared on hundreds of national and regional radio and television programs, including CBS Sunday Morning, Science Friday, and West Coast Live. His books have gained national attention with coverage in the San Francisco Chronicle, Newsweek, and the San Jose Mercury News. He has testified before Congress and spoken at numerous conferences, corporate and government offices, and college campuses, including Stanford University, the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Vermont Law School.

Dan is the president and co-founder of Watershed Media, a non-profit publishing house based in Healdsburg, California. He is the president and a co-founder of the Wild Farm Alliance, a seven year-old national organization that works to promote agriculture systems that support and accommodate wild nature. For ten years, he has been the co-host of a monthly Farm and Garden radio show on Mendocino County Public Broadcasting with his long-time friend, biodynamic apple farmer Tim Bates.

Between 1990 and 1995, Dan worked at Esprit International, where he was communications director for a team at the forefront of environmental product design. He received a B.A. in International Relations from Allegheny College and an M.A. in International Affairs from the Maxwell School of Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

He lives with his wife and two children; they divide their time between Healdsburg and a small homestead farm in California’s Anderson Valley.

Roberto Carra, Co-founder, vice-president and art director. An internationally renowned photographer, graphic designer and art director born in Parma, Italy, Roberto Carra's still-life images significantly influenced commercial communication throughout the 1980s. Carra began his collaborations with Dan Imhoff in early 1990 at the design studio of Esprit International, where they worked on a unique project to incorporate social and environmental issues into product design.

Carra, a classically trained graphic artist, works in a broad range of visual communication media, but concentrates primarily on photography and graphic design. In addition to art directing an increasing number of broadly distributed environmental publications, his layouts and images have appeared in dozens of books and magazines, including Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World; Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West; Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture; Farming with the Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity on Farms and Ranches; Building with Vision: Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood; 101 Vegetable Faces; Esprit: The Comprehensive Design Principle; and The Neon Clock Book.

He lives and works in northern Italy.

Board of Directors

Daniel Imhoff, Board President, Executive Director.

Roberto Carra, Board Vice President, Art Director.

Jon Harvey, Conservation activist. After retiring in 2000 as an engineer from the computer industry, Harvey turned his focus to conservation and sustainable land use planning. Since that time, he has served on various government and non-government boards in the San Francisco Bay Area including a city Planning Commission, county Board of Zoning Adjustments, and a county land trust. Harvey is an active member of The Sierra Club both locally and at the national level where he chairs the club's National Agriculture Committee.

Greg Hendrickson, Attorney: Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass. Hendrickson's practice includes advising individuals, businesses, and tax-exempt organizations on conservation approaches for real property. He is particularly experienced in negotiating conservation easements for managed landscapes, including forests, farmlands and rangelands. Hendrickson has participated in the preparation of transactional contracts for environmentally based commodities, advised on legislative proposals for reforming national nature resource tax policy, and developed and implemented litigation strategy defending transferred conservation assets.

Diana Donlon Karlenzig, Secretary. Diana brings nearly two decades of experience in philanthropy and grassroots environmental activism to our board. As a program executive at the Goldman Environmental Prize, she helped to elevate the critical and often unrecognized campaigns of grassroots activists around the world. As one of the founders of the foundation collaborative, the Roots of Change Fund, she has helped set California on its path to be the world leader in sustainable agriculture. Currently the program consultant to the William Zimmerman Foundation, she uses her extensive knowledge of the food system as a way to address complex social and environmental problems in the foundation's two core areas of interest - Youth Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Agriculture.

Anne Telford, Editor-at-large: Communication Arts Magazine. Anne is a veteran writer and editor-at-large of Communication Arts, a leading U.S. trade publication covering the fields of design and advertising. Anne was a founding board member of the Illustration Conference and is a current board member of Watershed Media, and an advisory board member of the San Diego chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Artists. Anne is a published poet and photographer with credits ranging from CA, Émigré, Blur and Step Inside Design magazines, to the Portland Oregonian, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Allworth Press and Chronicle Books, among others.

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