Board of Trustees

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College of the Atlantic

Cynthia Baker, Chair, Senior Development Director – Duke University, Washington, DC
Marthann Samek, Vice Chair, Trustee Emerita – Bucknell University, New York, NY
Ronald E. Beard, Secretary, Extension Professor Emeritus – University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Bar Harbor, ME
Clay Corbus, Treasurer, President and CEO – Clean Energy Fuels Corp., San Francisco, CA

Michael Boland ’94. Principal Owner – Havana Restaurant Group, Bar Harbor, ME
Joyce Cacho, Independent Director & Former Global Chief Sustainability Officer, Plymouth, MA
Heather Richards Evans, Founder & President – Yaverland Foundation, Vero Beach, FL
Allison Fundis ’03, President/COO – Ocean Exploration Trust, New Haven, VT
Beth Gardiner, Art Historian, London, UK
Marie Griffith, Professor of Humanities – Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Andy Griffiths, Former Administrative Dean & CFO – College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
Chris Groobey, Angel Investor & Advisor – Clean Energy and ClimateTech, Miami, FL
Cookie Horner, Hospice Volunteer & Former School Nurse – MDI High School, Bar Harbor, ME
Howard Lapsley, Partner – Oliver Wyman, Needham, MA
Casey Mallinckrodt, Senior Conservator – Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO
Chandreyee Mitra ’01, Associate Professor of Biology and Director of Environmental Programs – North Central College, Aurora, IL
Roland Reynolds, Managing Director – Goldman Sachs, Alexandria, VA
Laura McGiffert Slover, Managing Director – Goldman Sachs, Washington, DC

Laura Z. Stone, Art Historian, New York, NY
Steve Sullens, Executive Advisor – The Blackstone Group, New York, NY
Claudia Turnbull, Philanthropist & Research Advocate – Psychedelic Studies, Greenwich, CT 

David Hackett Fischer, Wayland, MA

William G. Foulke, Jr., Bedford, NY

Amy Yeager Geier, Santa Fe, NM
Elizabeth D. Hodder, Cambridge, MA

Anthony Mazlish, Chevy Chase, MD
Jay McNally ’84, Bar Harbor, ME
Philip S.J. Moriarty, Hinsdale, IL
Cathy Ramsdell ’78, Portland, ME
Nadia Rosenthal, Northeast Harbor, ME
Hamilton Robinson, Jr., New York, NY
William N. Thorndike, Boston, MA

Samuel M. Hamill, Jr., Princeton, NJ

John N. Kelly, Yarmouth, ME


Stories from the Field

COA collaborators help launch podcast series on women adapting to change along Maine’s working waterfront

The latest season of the Island Institute’s From the Sea Up features research and storytelling by COA students and faculty. Read More

Lamb-ageddon! Crowd goes wild as baby sheep frolic on the field

COA Peggy Rockefeller Farm’s Leaping into Spring event is a sweet tradition that signals the turning of the season on Mount Desert Island. Via Bar Harbor Story. Read More

Endowment and innovation keep Bar Harbor college viable, new interim leader says

Incoming interim president Lynn Boulger highlights the $95 million endowment and unique academic focus keeping COA secure, via Bangor Daily News. Read More