Environmental Leadership Group
Meet the Environmental Leadership Group Members
When she returned to her hometown, Sarasota, Florida, in 2021, Ei Founder & CEO Holly Elmore embarked on building an Lambda Alpha International (LAI) group within the Sarasota environmental community. Members are the community’s environmental leadership as well as LAI At-Large members.
Holly serves as the LAI Assistant Communications Director and on the Global Executive Committee.
Below are the Environmental Leadership Group members.
Visit the Lambda Alpha International page to learn more about the prominent 90-years-old land economics honorary.

Aaron Virgin
Aaron Virgin, CEO at Save Our Seabirds
For nearly two decades, Aaron has worked for national and grassroots ...

Bridgett Luther
Former Director of California’s Department of Conservation under Arnold SchwarzeneggerScaled the world's largest ...

Charles Reith, Ph.D
Charles Reith is an ecologist with experience restoring ecological productivity to distressed land and waters. His ...

Christine Johnson
Christine P. Johnson is a fifth generation Floridian who shares the Foundation's vision for the human and natural ...

Dave Tomasko, Ph.D
Dr. Dave Tomasko is the Executive Director of the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program. He has more than 30 years of ...

Holly Elmore
Ei Founder & CEO
Passionate and driven, Holly Elmore is Founder & CEO of Elemental Impact (Ei), a ...

Jon Thaxton
Jon Thaxton creates and implements Gulf Coast Community Foundation’s key strategies for transforming our region’s ...

Mary Anne Bowie, FAICP
Mary Anne G. Bowie, FAICP is a third-generation Sarasotan and happy that her three children and grandchildren live ...

Mary Dougherty
Mary Dougherty, Executive Director Gulf Coast Builders Exchange
Mary Dougherty is the executive director of the ...

Sandy Gilbert
Sandy is a graduate of Cornell University with a BA in economics. His career spanned thirty-five years in the ...

Tim Rumage
Tim is a planetary ethicist and Professor of Environmental Studies at Ringling College of Art and Design where he ...