Current Officers (2021-2022)
President: Steve Findlay Vice president: Lauren Greenberger Secretary: Heidi Rosvold-Brenholtz Treasurer: Scott Rockafellow
SCA Presidents
2021- present 2017-2020 2015-2016 2014 2013-14 2011-12 2009-10 2000-08 1999 1992-98 1990-91 1989 1988 1983-87 1982 1980-81 1978-79 1976-77 1975 1973-74
Steven Findlay Lauren Greenberger Beth Daly Dick Hill Jim Choukas-Bradley Ann Sturm Gary Valens Jim Brown Bob Zarnetske Jane Hunter John Snitzer Karen Kalla Lynn Lipp Jay Cinque Steve Quarles Wade Byerly Susan Menke Tom Proctor Rex Sturm John Menke
Sugarloaf Citizens' Association Biographies - Officers and Board
Steven Findlay, President Steve joined the SCA board in 2013. He and wife Grace live on a horse farm in Barnesville, to which they moved from Chevy Chase in 2007. Steve is a journalist, health policy analyst, and health reform advocate. Over a 35-year career, he worked for, among others: Consumer Reports; U.S. News & World Report; USA TODAY; Kaiser Health News; the National Cancer Institute; the National Coalition on Health Care; and the National Institute for Health Care Management. Steve now freelances for various media outlets and healthcare foundations. In his free time, Steve is an avid tennis player. He also hikes, reads, travels, and above all loves to spend time with his three grandchildren.
Lauren Greenberger, Vice President After many years of working in Africa and Europe in public health, Lauren redirected her life and work to focus on agriculture and sustainable landscape design. For the past 16 years, Lauren has partnered with a local farmer to raise beef cattle on her farm in Barnesville. With a grant from the Montgomery County Soil Conservation District she has planted over 2,000 native trees and shrubs to protect the stream on her property and the Chesapeake Bay. Lauren has served on the SCA board since 2014 and was president from 2017 to 2020. She serves on the Zero Waste Montgomery County Coalition, the Dickerson Area Facilities Implementation Group and is a Master Gardener with the University of Maryland Ag Extension Service. Lauren loves backpacking, tennis and taking her grandsons on adventures.
Heidi Rosvold-Brenholtz, Secretary Heidi grew up Poolesville, left for a time, and returned to the area in 1993. She lives in Beallsville with husband Roger, where they raised three sons. Heidi is a writer/editor at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Prior to that job, Heidi worked in health communications, primarily focused on women’s health. She joined SCA’s board in 2018. Heidi is also active locally as a Monocacy Lions Club member and volunteer with the Great and Small Therapeutic Riding Center in Boyds. And, she serves on the board of directors for the historic Monocacy Cemetery. Her interests and hobbies include cooking, horses, dogs, knitting, politics, books, conservation, fishing, and other outdoor adventures.
Scott Rockafellow, Treasurer Scott is currently both CFO and COO at Fine Point Technologies, a software company that provides solutions for remote device management and data analytics. Prior to joining Fine Point, Scott was Executive Vice President of Corporate Development for Sonic Telecom, where he was responsible for arranging financing and for establishing joint service relationships with partners in India, Asia, and the Middle East. Prior to entering the telecom industry, Scott spent 14 years in investment banking in New York City and New Zealand, where he worked in project finance and public finance, predominantly on infrastructure transactions. In 2005, Scott moved with his family to Zambia for personal reasons (his wife’s job). He was intrigued by the native wood and started a furniture company that sourced sustainably harvested timber and trained local woodworkers. Scott was raised in Colorado and enjoys the outdoors, especially fly fishing, hiking, skiing and polocrosse. He was President of Sugarloaf Polocrosse Club for several years. Scott and his family live in Dickerson.
Jim Brown Jim and wife Tina (see below), both natives of St. Louis, have lived in Barnesville since 1999. Jim is a lobbyist and consultant in Washington, D.C., primarily serving the needs of cities. Prior to launching his own company in 1980, Jim worked in government and as a congressional staff member. Jim is a long-time SCA board member and was its longest-serving president (2000 to 2008). Jim led SCA’s fight against a bridge across the Potomac into the Ag Reserve, and still stands guard against that proposal. He also led the fight against a large “mega church” in a section of the Reserve that would have been disrupted by its presence. Jim is active in civic affairs in Barnesville. He loves to bike, spend time with family, cheer on the St. Louis Cardinals, and travel.
Tina Thieme Brown Tina has served on SCA’s board since 1999. But her work as an environmental activist began ten years prior to that, in 1989, when the Exxon Valdez Oil Tanker spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound in Alaska. She created a traveling exhibit explaining the environmental impact of the spill. Tina is an artist. Her illustrated map of the Ag Reserve has been widely distributed and influential. Tina is the coauthor of two books: “Eastern Woodland Wildflowers and Trees, 350 Plants observed at Sugarloaf Mountain” and “Sugarloaf: The Mountain's History, Geology, and Natural Lore.” At SCA, Tina helped lead SCA’s lawsuit opposing an expansion of the coal fired power plant in Dickerson, and, most recently, led SCA’s effort to protect Sugarloaf Mountain and its surrounding landscape from development. Tina can often be found walking, biking or painting landscapes on West Harris Road and Sugarloaf Mountain.
Jay Cinque Jay and wife Anne moved to a 35-acre farm on Slidell Road in Boyds in 1973. He retired in 2022 from a long career at the National Institutes on Health in Bethesda. Jay has been active in local civic and environmental organizations since the 1970s, including the Boyds Civic Association, Friends of Ten-Mile Creek, and SCA. Jay has served on SCA’s board since 1983 and was its president for five years in the mid 1980s. In 2016, Jay received the coveted Royce Hanson Award for his leadership in land conservation, environmental stewardship, and protecting the Ag Reserve. In their free time, Jay and Anne enjoy riding horses and traveling.
Eric Cronquist Eric worked as an international economist in Washington D.C. before retiring and relocating to a farm in Beallsville in 1998. During his time in DC he was president of CAAN (Citizens for the Abatement of Aircraft Noise) and before that editor of CAAN’s monthly publication. In addition to his seat on SCA’s board, Eric serves on the Dickerson Area Facilities Implementation Group (FIG), which monitors the impact of the Dickerson trash incinerator. He and wife Brita divide their time between Beallsville and their native Sweden.
Andrew Donaldson Andrew is a life-long resident of Dickerson and a fourth-generation landowner. His family has farmed property in the Ag Reserve since the early 1900s, and also farms property between Moorfield and Brandywine, West Virginia. Andrew is a licensed plumber. He loves agriculture and has a special interest in gardening. His wife, Shirley, was raised in Olney, Maryland. Andrew’s non-work interests include local and long-distance camping with family and friends.
Jenny Freeman Jenny spent most of her professional career in the field of microfinance—providing small loans to low-income individuals who lack access to credit. Working overseas, she created microfinance projects in the Balkans, Asia, and Africa. After 15 years of that work, Jenny settled in Poolesville in 2016 where she and her daughter live on a small farm. In 2020, Jenny became involved with food security issues and founded Community FarmShare, a nonprofit that provides fresh, healthy food to those in need in Montgomery County. The organization also supports local small-scale farmers to build a resilient local food system. With Ellen Gordon (see below), Jenny is taking the lead on an SCA effort to enhance the growing of more table crops in the Ag Reserve. She has served on SCA’s board since 2021.
Ellen Gordon Ellen is a 34-year resident of the Ag Reserve. She joined SCA’s board in 1992. Ellen’s education and professional career focused on policy, politics, planning and law related to coastal areas in the U.S. She worked at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from 1984 to 1993, and as a freelance writer and editor on environmental issues from 2004 until she retired in 2015. During intervening years, she assisted a “fair trade” import business, worked in a medicinal herb garden and raised her two children. Ellen is an activist for regenerative farming, land conservation, biodiversity and social justice. She lives in Comus with husband Jim, 2 horses, 2 dogs, and a boisterous flock of hens. They enjoy traveling, camping, gardening, hiking, and, when possible, visiting any beach.
Dick Hill Dick moved to Dickerson in 1996 from DC's Mount Pleasant neighborhood. He joined SCA’s board in 2009 and served as president in 2014. Dick also serves on the Dickerson Area Facilities Implementation Group (FIG), the local citizen group that oversees the incinerator, composting activities and the landfill at the incinerator site. He chaired that group until recently. In his free time, Dick likes to read, follow local politics, and putter on his farm.
Jane Hunter Jane was born and raised on a dairy farm in Chilhowie, VA. She moved to Maryland in 1963 where she married her husband, a third-generation Montgomery County farmer. Jane lives in Beallsville. She was a founding member of SCA, has served on its board for the past 21 years and was president from 1992 to 1998. During that time, Jane fought to prevent the siting of a landfill and construction of the trash incinerator in Dickerson. She also serves on the Dickerson Facilities Implementation Group (FIG). Jane is a widely recognized expert on Montgomery County’s land use and waste disposal policies and practices. In her free time, Jane likes to travel, cook, knit, read and enjoy her family.
Danny Huntington Danny, his wife Sharon Crane, and their two goldendoodles live near the entrance to Sugarloaf Mountain. They are both partners in an IP firm in Washington, DC, where they focus primarily on patents. Danny has a degree in chemistry and Sharon has a doctorate in molecular biology. They have traveled extensively in the United States and around the world and continue to do so as a part of an international IP organization with over 5000 IP attorneys in 90+ countries. Danny was the president of the organization from 2006-2009. He grew up on a farm in southern Indiana where his family raised animals and crops, but he has lived in the Washington, DC, area for most of the last 50 years. Currently Danny’s only “farming” is limited to advising and providing labor to Sharon as she has increased the size of her garden each year. They moved to Dickerson from Potomac in 2018. Danny is an avid reader, bicyclist, and hiker.
Tim Nanof Tim lives on a small farmette in Beallsville with his wife Christina and their two sons. Before moving to the Washington, DC-area more than 20 years ago, Tim grew up in a rural area on the coast of Maine. Tim is a government affairs professional who has spent the past 16 years as a federal lobbyist and regulatory advocate focused on health care and special education policy. He currently works as the Director of Health Care & Education Policy for the American Speech-Language Hearing Association in Rockville. Prior to his transition to policy work, Tim worked as a child protective social worker in Maine, and then with low-income older adults in a non-profit home care agency in Washington, DC. Tim enjoys biking, hiking and swimming.
Steve Nothwehr Steve and wife Ann have lived in the Ag Reserve since 2016. Steve has had a long-term interest in agriculture and rural life after growing up on a farm in Iowa. He worked for several years in academia teaching and doing research in cell biology before he and Ann moved to Maryland in 2007. He currently works as a Program Director at the National Cancer Institute in Rockville. Steve is an avid gardener with an emphasis on growing his own fruits and vegetables, and especially figs. He is currently trialing approximately 100 varieties of figs to compare their performance in our climate. Steve joined SCA’s board in 2018.
Gil Rocha Gil is a life long resident of Montgomery Co, and has lived in Dickerson, with his wife Annie, for the last 20 years. He has been an SCA board member since 2009. Gil is an estimator and project manager for a small glass company. In their free time, he and Annie paddle, fish, explore and monitor the Potomac River and its tributaries. They are also avid gardeners and grow much of their own produce.
Dan Savino Dan lives in Poolesville. Since 2006, he’s been a physics teacher in the Global Ecology Magnet Program at Poolesville High School. Dan has served on SCA’s board since 2012. He also plays an active role in the SCA-affiliated Piedmont Environmental Education Foundation, which awards grants to middle and high school students in Montgomery County for environmental research projects. Dan is a long-time beekeeper and coordinates activities at SCA’s apiary at Linden Farm. Dan and wife Kathy have converted their home into a model “green” residence that includes solar power and efficient waste management practices. Dan and his family enjoy all activities that allow them to spend time outdoors.
Tim Whitehouse Tim and his family have lived in Poolesville since 2007. He is a co-founder and a previous Executive Director of Poolesville Green, and a former member of the Poolesville Economic Development Committee. Tim is an environmental lawyer and the Executive Director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nationwide organization that works for ethical resource management and impartial implementation of environmental laws. Tim joined SCA’s board in 2018. In their free time, Tim and his family love to bike and hike around Sugarloaf Mountain and on the C&O canal.
Kim Penn Administrative Assistant to the SCA Board A Montgomery County native, Kim often visited the Ag Reserve and Sugarloaf Mountain while growing up and now calls Dickerson home. Kim has degrees in Political Science and Environment Conservation from the University of Colorado. Her background in grassroots communication, land conservation and membership services stems from work as a lobbyist for at-risk youth, at American Farmland Trust supporting conservation easements and as PTA President in Montgomery County. In her spare time, Kim enjoys spending time with her family and animals at their small farm; cooking; hiking and completing projects on her historic home.
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