The Pembina Foundation's Board of Directors is comprised of experienced
and insightful professionals who offer diverse perspectives on
environmental priorities, business administration and societal
responsibility.
Board Members
Thomas Marr-LaingPresident
Tom Marr-Laing is a self-employed businessperson with responsibilities for the acquisition, development, and operation of various real estate properties and businesses. He currently serves as a Director on the Beverage Container Management Board. Tom also provides consulting services to businesses and non-profit organizations in the area of business development, regulatory and legal interventions, and non-profit fundraising and project management.
From 1990 to 2005, Tom served in several senior management capacities for the Pembina Institute. During his tenure with the Institute, Tom served as Executive Director, Policy Director, Director of Environmental Education and Director of the Energy Watch program. His responsibilities included coordination and strategic development of program activities as well as delivery on a number of specific projects. Tom also served as co-chair or participant on several multi-stakeholder bodies charged with developing policy frameworks to manage environmental issues of public concern. This included Vice President of the Board of the Clean Air Strategic Alliance (CASA), co-chair of the original CASA Flaring and Venting Project Teams, and active member of the CASA Electricity Project Team which developed a comprehensive framework to reduce air emissions from the Alberta Electric Power sector.
Tom holds a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Alberta. He resides in Red Deer, Alberta with his wife and two young children.
Rick BreenTreasurer
Rick is a practicing lawyer with McLeod and Company LLP and lives with his family in Calgary. Rick is treasurer of the Pembina Foundation's Board of Directors.
Donn BakerSecretary
Donn lives on a farm outside Drayton Valley where she raises a variety of llamas. She has had a long-term association with both the Pembina Institute and the Pembina Foundation. Donn is a member of the Pembina Foundation's Board of Directors.
Kim SandersonDirector
Kim Sanderson has worked as an environmental researcher, writer and editor for over 25 years. She has served on a number of volunteer boards and committees including the Alberta Ecotrust Foundation, the City of Edmonton's Environmental Advisory Committee, the Canadian Society of Environmental Biologists, and the Queen Alexandra Community League in Edmonton. Kim has a B.Sc. in biology and a M.Sc. in soil microbiology. Kim is a member of the Pembina Foundation's Board of Directors.
Martin Prentice
Director
Martin (Marty) has
practiced law in Drayton Valley for 35 years and is now semi-retired, conducting
a very limited and restricted practice in the areas of estate planning and
administration and minor corporate matters with the Duncan & Craig LLP law
firm in Drayton Valley.
Marty has been
continually involved in many local activities, projects and organizations. He
helped establish the Beehive Support Services Society for developmentally
disabled adults, the Community Foundation, the Chamber of Commerce and its
annual trade show, the Community Scholarship Trust Society, Big Brothers &
Big Sisters, the local small theatre company, slow pitch softball league, and
Rotary Club. He is currently President of the Eleanor Pickup Arts
Centre and a Member of the Edmonton Region Community Board for Persons With
Developmental Disabilities.
Marty was made
Queen's Council in 2004 and presented the Drayton Valley Ambassador Award in
2000 and Alberta Centennial Medal in 2005.
Angela Angell
Director
Angela Angell is presently a graduate
student in natural resource sociology and a teaching assistant for a course
entitled "Oil + Community: Health Equity in a Petro-Environment" at the
University of Alberta. In her early
career, Angela worked in environmental education and outreach with the Pembina
Institute, Sierra Club Prairie Chapter, and Green Planet Communications. Prior to beginning her graduate studies,
Angela worked as a researcher with both the provincial and federal
governments. Angela has researched a
diverse array of topics - from the social and economic factors contributing to
substance abuse in resource-based communities to the sociocultural factors of
tuberculosis transmission in First Nations communities. Her current thesis research explores the
identity and well-being of male mobile resource workers in the Alberta
Oilsands. Angela also holds a Bachelor
of Science in Environmental Conservation Sciences, with a major in Human
Dimensions of Environmental Management from the University of Alberta. When she is not researching and writing,
Angela enjoys trail running with her wolfdog.
Janice McDougall
Director
Janice is a Partner in Goodman, McDougall & Associates
Ltd., a Human Resource consulting firm incorporated in 1991 which provides
facilitation and total rewards programs and services to a wide variety of
corporate, government and social-profit organizations.
Janice was awarded the Human Resources Institute of
Alberta's 2003 Award of Distinction for her leadership role in moving the HR
profession forward. In 2010 she and her
husband placed a conservation easement on their property near Millarville,
Alberta, which was inspired by their being Canada's first business property to
be certified under the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary System in 1999.
She was on the Board of the Pembina Institute from 2004 to
2009, serving as President of the Board from 2006 - 2008 and Past President in
2009. She has held numerous professional
and personal volunteer and Board roles, including acting as a founding member
and President of the Board of the Foothills Land Trust.
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