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Members of the US Board of Directors of SAEP (USA)

May 6, 2007

Members of the US Board of Directors of SAEP

Charles (Chuck) Elkins of Washington, DC, is Chair of the SAEP Board. A retired official of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, he now heads up Chuck Elkins & Associates, an environmental consulting firm. Chuck grew up in Winston-Salem, NC and is a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School. He is founder of the Institute for CyberVolunteering which promotes the delivery of volunteer professional services to NGOs via computer and other electronic means.

Norton Tennille is President of SAEP and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. A former Rhodes Scholar, he practiced environmental and federal regulatory law in Washington, DC for twenty-five years before moving to Cape Town to establish SAEP in 1994. He is a native of Winston-Salem, NC and holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Harvard University, Oxford University, and Harvard Law School. He was a founding Director of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham and served on the General Alumni Board of UNC:Chapel Hill. During his career as an environmental lawyer he received numerous awards from environmental organizations and headed the Balliol College Alumni Association in the United States.

Jane Keen is Director of South African Education and Environment Project, a South African non-profit sister organization of SAEP, in Cape Town, South Africa. She is a graduate of the University of Cape Town and a distinguished social worker with 25 years experience working with street children, farmworkers' children, and the victims of domestic violence. For seven years she managed the NICRO Women's Support Centre in downtown Cape Town. She helped establish the first shelter for street children in Cape Town and has worked with Gun Free South Africa, the Homestead, and a number of other civic organizations.

Inge Heckel is President of the New York School of Interior Design. She is a graduate of UNC:Chapel Hill. Before joining NYSID, she had her own management consulting firm, specializing in institutional planning and development for educational and cultural organizations. Clients included Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Balliol College of Oxford University, the Fay School, the French Institute/Alliance Francaise, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Earlier, she served as president of Bradford College in Bradford, MA; was manager of development and promotion at The Metropolitan Museum of Arts; and held senior administrative posts at Channel 13/WNET and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She is a director of the Tocqueville Trust of mutual funds, and is a member of the advisory councils of the Institute for Classical Architecture, and the Olana Partnership.

J. D. Wilson is president and CEO of Excalibur Enterprises, Inc., a direct marketing communications company based in Winston-Salem, N.C. He is a graduate of Wake Forest University and holds an honorary doctoral degree from the North Carolina School of the Arts. He has held leadership positions on a variety of educational, cultural and civic boards. Currently he serves as a director of the Winston-Salem Alliance, North Carolina Citizens for Business & Industry’s Small Business Advisory Board, Safer Communities Foundation, Tanglewood Park Foundation and Reynolda House Museum of American Art. He has served on the Board of Visitors of Wake Forest University's Calloway School of Business and Accountancy. A former trustee of the North Carolina School of the Arts, he is chairman of its nationally-based Board of Visitors.

Directors Emeriti

In June 2006, veteran SAEP Board member Dayne Walling retired after many years of service on the SAEP Board. Dayne recently moved from Minneapolis where he was working toward his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Minnesota, back home to Flint, Michigan to continue his research on urban development. He is as of September 2007running for Mayor of Flint Dayne is Director Emeritus and continues to serve SAEP as a member of its Advisory Committee. A former Rhodes Scholar, Dayne served for three years in the Executive Office of Mayor Anthony Williams of Washington, DC . He worked as the Policy Advocate for the Urban Coalition in Minnesota and coordinated a voter mobilization campaign for National Voice. Dayne has completed projects for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, the Southern Africa Environment Project, the University of Minnesota's Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, OverExposure Arts, and, most recently, Ready 4 K. Dayne has volunteered with AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity, and the Everybody Wins! literacy program. He is co-founder of the Flint Club and was an active member of Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church while he studied in Minneapolis.

Martha Dillon Davis is Director of Research and Planning at the Technical College of the Low Country, Beaufort, South Carolina. She is a native of Winston-Salem, NC where she earned a BS in Mathematics from Wake Forest University. Martha holds a Master of Arts in Community and Occupational Development and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of South Carolina. Before joining TCL, she was Coordinator of Victim Services for Citizens Opposed to Domestic Abuse in Beaufort. Previously she was on the faculty at Midlands Technical College in Columbia, South Carolina State University and the University of South Carolina. As an educational software developer she worked with Optimum Resource in Hilton Head, SC.