Green Star Staff
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Kim Kovol Executive Director |
About Kim...
Kim hails originally from Southern California…and drove to Alaska nearly fifteen years ago to join her husband, who was attending UAA. With a BA in Liberal Arts & Sciences, Kim has worked in a variety of fields ranging from for-profit business management to education to human and health services. Kim thrives on non-profit business management and enjoys professional learning opportunities, especially presenting her trademark administrative supervisory classes at local and national conferences.
According to her staff, Kim is “not your average greenie.” Kim promotes the belief that green living and business development is a balance that needs to fit the individual or business to ensure a strong, profitable bottom line. Customer satisfaction and interests drive numerous specific business markets and, with many green-savvy consumers on the rise, businesses must pay attention to the public’s opinion of products and services.
Kim’s husband is a scientist thus the family lives in a healthy, balanced, and practical green manner. Kim’s children love to recycle and especially enjoy the monetary benefit coming from Mom. Kim enjoys green crafting (as evidenced by her home business “Alaska Green Chick”), ice skating, skiing, hockey, football, home brewing with her husband, and “light” hiking and biking with her family.
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Lilly Capell Technical Assistance Coordinator |
About Lilly...
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Megan Pool Membership Coordinator |
About Megan...
Megan was born and raised in beautiful Southeast Alaska where it rains more than 90" a year. She received her Bachelors of Science in Zoology from Western Washington University in 2002 and moved to Anchorage soon after. So far in her life she has held many interesting positions including park ranger, veterinary assistant, dog trainer, zookeeper, hatchery technician, server at the Moose's Tooth, yoga teacher and now non-profit staffer. Megan is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Arts and Teaching through UAA in order to become a biology teacher.
When Megan isn't working at Green Star, she can be found walking her dog Lottie, teaching yoga classes, cooking delicious meals with friends, biking, hiking, skiing, enjoying live local music or planning her next out-of-town adventure.
What Megan enjoys most about her current position as Membership Coordinator at Green Star is working with all the dedicated members in the community who are committed to making the environment a cleaner and healthier place for us to all work and live.
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Jeanne Carlson Outreach Contractor
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About Jeanne...
Jeanne earned a BS in Communications from Cornell University and an MS in Conservation Behavior from the University of Michigan. She has more than 20 years of experience in the environmental field, focusing on recycling and pollution prevention issues.
Jeanne lived and worked in the Anchorage area for ten years before relocating to Loudoun County, Virginia, in late 2009. During her decade in Alaska, she was Program Director at Green Star where she developed such initiatives as the Green Events program and Site Assessments as part of the Green Star Award benefits package.
She conducted almost 150 site assessments for member businesses over the years. She also organized electronics recycling events and developed much of Green Star’s outreach and technical assistance materials, including web content, monthly newsletters and tip sheets. Jeanne continues to assist with outreach at Green Star from afar, keeping in touch with Anchorage business issues while also offering an “outside” perspective.
While in Alaska, Jeanne enjoyed mushing, skijoring, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, and hiking. She continues to live with eight sled dogs in Virginia, as well as five cats and her husband, and will soon be exploring the outdoor opportunities available for northern breed dogs in the southern climate (swimming in the Potomac??).