A lifelong interest in sustainability and the environment led Pam to ISI. She joined ISI in the summer of 2013. First as a client, and then a volunteer, one thing led to another and in January 2014, Pam became Project Director for ISI. Three years on, following the death of ISI founder, Loren Cole, Pam became Chief Executive Officer for ISI. She holds a BA in Political Science, UC Berkeley, and a Master’s degree in Public Administration, University of San Francisco. Pam lives, draws and paints in Santa Rosa, with her cat, Bochy, in an intentional housing cooperative.

Jenna (real name: Jirina) joined the ISI team in April 2016. Jenna brings plenty of Quickbooks and computer experience with her to ISI, along with all-around excellence when it comes to teamwork and attitude. Mother to two young boys, Jenna stays busy with hockey and swimming, helping her husband with their solar company, and being an all around great Mom. Jenna hails from the Czech Republic, coming to the states for college twenty years ago. She holds a Masters Degree in Economics and Finance from The University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic, and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Coastal Carolina University, South Carolina.

Mallory joined the ISI team in December of 2019. She is a California native and long-time Bay Area resident, and has lived in Marin, San Francisco, and currently calls San Jose home. Having worked in customer service and support in high-end retail, publishing, and e-commerce, she brings a wide variety of skills to the ISI team. She has an AA degree from College of Marin in Liberal Arts and Sciences, a BA degree from University of California, Davis in Art History, and is a licensed cosmetologist. Mallory can usually be found exploring hiking trails with her husband, cooking up a storm in the kitchen for friends and family, or with her nose buried in a book.

Cheryl joined ISI in the fall of 2021 taking the lead on all things HR!  Cheryl brings many years of HR experience with as she spent several decades working in the corporate sector in HR. Cheryl was ready to jump back into the HR world after taking a few years off and relocating to North Carolina with her husband.  Cheryl holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Central Florida in Business and she earned her Bachelor’s Degree from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  Cheryl has 2 grown step-daughters and 2 grandchildren along with 2 chocolate lab pups.  Cheryl is a distance runner and has run numerous Marathons including Boston, New York and Chicago several times. In addition to her love of running she enjoys the outdoors and her and her husband enjoy traveling the country in their RV.

Jamie Boling (she/her) joyfully joined ISI in August 2023 as Accounting Manager. Jamie brings diverse skills from her work as a co-founder of a cannabis justice nonprofit and from her experience as a finance and accounting consultant for small business and nonprofit founders. Jamie received a Bachelor’s of Science in Communications with a minor in Business Administration from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville. Her familial roots are in the mountains of Appalachian East Tennessee where she grew up. Today, Jamie is a mom to one sweet kiddo in Santa Rosa, CA, where she has been based since 2011. Outside of ISI, you might find her sipping herbal tea, visiting the mountains or the sea for a hike, or admiring the stars on a clear night.

A lifelong interest in sustainability and the environment led Pam to ISI. She joined ISI in the summer of 2013. First as a client, and then a volunteer, one thing led to another and in January 2014, Pam became Project Director for ISI. Three years on, following the death of ISI founder, Loren Cole, Pam became Chief Executive Officer for ISI. She holds a BA in Political Science, UC Berkeley, and a Master’s degree in Public Administration, University of San Francisco. Pam lives, draws and paints in Santa Rosa, with her cat, Bochy, in an intentional housing cooperative.

President and Chief Executive Officer of Natural Logic.

A systems ecologist and business strategist with nearly 40 years experience in business, communications, and environmental innovation, Gil Friend combines broad business experience with unique content experience spanning strategy, systems ecology, economic development, management cybernetics, and public policy. Tomorrow magazine called him “One of the country’s leading environmental management consultants—a real expert who combines theoretical sophistication with hands-on, in-the-trenches know-how.”

Gil was a founding board member of the Sustainable Business Alliance, Sustainable Berkeley, and the California Sustainable Business Council. He serves on the boards of directors of Open Data Registry, Inc. and Environmental Building Network, the executive board of OpenEco.org and the advisory boards of CleanFish, WattBot, Green World Campaign, and (past) San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Clean Tech Advisory Council (and has been named one of the Bay Area’s top 25 movers & shakers in cleantech). Gil also founder and Executive Director of Foundation for the Arts of Peace, and was cofounder and co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a leading urban ecology and economic development “think-and-do tank,” where he pioneered the current “green roof” trend more than 35 years ago.

Director & Founder, Spirited Medicine Alliance, Living Shaman Museum

Connie Grauds joined the ISI Board of Directors in 2009. Connie serves as President of the Association of Natural Medicine Pharmacists; Adjunct Faculty, University of Minnesota, Center for Spirituality and Healing; and as Advisory Board member, Integral Health, California Institute of Integral Studies.

Connie holds a Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Public Administration, emphasis on ethical business of transformational social change. Her projects, The Center for Spirited Medicine, and The Spirited Medicine Alliance, work to preserve the rainforest’s medicinal plants and indigenous healing practices. Connie is also founder of The Living Shaman Museum, which is devoted to keeping shamanism relevant in the modern world. She has completed eighteen years of shamanic apprenticeship with don Antonio Montero Pisco in the Amazon, and was appointed to carry on his ancient Cocama shamanic teachings and healing practices.