Mother of 2 school-aged children, passionate about conservation and protection of biodiversity. Jasena joined GPTF in 2019 and is a member of the Communications Subcommittee and the Invasives Removal Squad (IRS). Loves hands-on activities such as cleanups, planting of native plants, and non-native invasives removal events. Jasena believes that solutions offered by the Drawdown Framework can reverse the climate crisis. In her opinion, reconnecting with nature is the key for sustainability. 

Former Program Manager for the Federated Conservationists of Westchester County, Anne Jaffe Holmes seeks to build community around protecting our environment, especially by bringing forward the voices of those who bear the heaviest burdens of climate change. Previously an environmental educator for Westchester County and then for the Greenburgh Nature Center, Anne came to understand that the disconnect between people and Nature so pervasive in our culture creates disease in our bodies and souls, just as surely as it poisons our world and harms other species. Anne can be found mixing her backyard compost or collecting food scraps at the Farmers Market with her friends in the Irvington Compost Crew.

Goofy GPTF'r with hand-me-down mismatched clothing and messy hair. Serious about regenerating the earth through native plants, leaving leaves, hand mow/no blow and removing non-native invasive plants; picking up trash; food scrap composting; zero waste "refuse-reuse-repurpose-repair-recycle" practices (no need to buy trash bags when trash fits in a chip or cereal bag!); no or low emission transportation, safe walking and biking advocate - in a friendly, community-oriented way.

Melanie Solomon moved to Irvington in 2020 from San Francisco, where they have municipal composting! She is passionate about that, as well as other aspects of waste management (recycling and upcycling) and electric vehicles. Melanie has been composting since she lived in New York City after college, via a small pile at her parents house on Long Island which once caught fire (and so ended that venture). Melanie and her husband have 2 young, school-aged children who also love composting and EVs. Melanie attended Cornell University and works in Investor Relations. She also spent time in the wine industry, working at Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard in the Finger Lakes of western New York, which is an organic and biodynamic vineyard.

Suzie Fromer has spent the last 18 years living in Westchester, first in Tarrytown and then in Irvington. The daughter of vegetable gardening antique dealers, Suzie grew up steeped in the twin cultures of environmentalism and repair. She is mom to two teenaged boys with food allergies and is an advocate for OIT food allergy treatments. She volunteered for years with the Irvington PTSA and chaired the board of the Irvington Farmer’s Market for several seasons before stepping down to open a jewelry making and repair business. She started volunteering as a jewelry repair coach for the Hastings Repair Cafe in 2019 and fell in love with the repair cafe concept. In 2022 she went to work for Sustainable Hudson Valley as the coordinator for Repair Café Hudson Valley, a consortium of almost 60 Repair cafes throughout the Hudson Valley, Catskills and Capital Region. She can be found fixing jewelry at a Repair Café throughout the area almost every weekend.

Dr. Warwick Norton has been the director of meteorology and climate research to work on the Cumulus Weather and Cumulus Energy funds. Previously Norton was at the University of Reading's Department of Meteorology, a world-leading center of excellence in the atmospheric sciences, having previously conducted research at both Oxford and Cambridge universities as well as at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Warwick Norton grew up in New Zealand and currently lives in Irvington. He is a keen plant grower and lover of nature. For part of this summer he could be found in the Hermits Wetland of Irvington Woods battling invasive Phragmites.