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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Josh Sherwood Technical Assistance Coordinator |
About Josh...
Josh was born and raised in Southern West Virginia. He received his honorable discharge from the United States Marine Corps in 2005. Josh came to Alaska in the summer of 2008 and spent two seasons working with Alaska Wildland Adventures on the Kenai Peninsula. That was enough time for him to fall in love with Alaska and make Anchorage his permanent residence.
Josh has experience in helping businesses overcome the challenges that arise while making the transition to becoming environmentally responsible. He is excited to be a member of the Green Star team and passionate about helping Alaska become a role model for waste reduction and sustainability.
During the summer months, Josh enjoys whitewater rafting, hiking, fishing, and camping in beautiful, remote places (all of Alaska). In the winter months, he spends his free time at Alyeska or backcountry skiing. Anything outdoors is right up his alley and he is always interested in experiencing new adventures.
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Christina Grande Community Outreach & Communications Coordinator 907.xxx.xxxx christina@greenstarinc.org |
About Christina...
Christina was born and raised in San Francisco, California. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism and minored in International Relations at San Francisco State University. She also studied in Aarhus, Denmark (the second largest city in Denmark) at the Danish School of Journalism. After school, Christina found herself gravitating to the north once again. This time, to Alaska for a TV reporting job. Her Alaskan adventure began in November 2006 when she packed her bags, left San Francisco and settled in Juneau as a one-woman band reporter for the news.
In 2008, she moved to Anchorage and has been reporting for ABC and CBS the past four years. During that time, several issues that captured her interest were renewable energy and how Alaskans are implementing "green" lifestyle choices in their daily lives. Christina wanted to be a part of this amazing movement in the Last Frontier and she thought there was no better place than Green Star to do that.
In her spare time, Christina can be found on her bike, going on hikes, and downhill and cross-country skiing. She loves to travel and she plans to see more of the great state of Alaska.
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Jeanne Carlson
(with Sky and Glacier) |
About Jeanne...
Jeanne grew up in New York State in the Finger Lakes region. She 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, at the end of 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 dog 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 is exploring the outdoor opportunities available for northern breed dogs in the southern climate (swimming in the Potomac??).