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 Alexander
Lee
Founder & Executive Director
Alexander Lee lives in Concord, NH. He was formerly a consultant
with the National Environmental Trust (NET) and has worked on and run numerous
political campaigns.
After graduating from
Vermont Law School in May of 2001, he was Assistant to the
Commissioners at the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission,
where he worked on energy efficiency programs. Mr. Lee also served
as staff
co-chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility
Commissioners' (NARUC) Committee on Energy Resources & the
Environment. He speaks frequently on energy conservation and was
also an active participant in the New England Demand Response
Initiative (NEDRI).
He did his undergraduate work at
Middlebury College, studying at the Center for Northern
Studies and participated in Green Corps' Environmental Organizing
Semester at the University of Montana-Missoula. He is also a
graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.
While in law school,
he worked for the
Vermont Secretary of State on political redistricting. His writing
has been published
in such places as the Northern Forest Forum, The Catholic Worker,
and the Albany Law Environmental Outlook Journal.
For several years, Mr. Lee has led a group of teenagers on four week
canoe trips in Northern Quebec. He loves to bake bread and
cross-country ski in his free time. He can be reached through his
website, at
www.alexanderplee.com.
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Susannah Smith (volunteer)
Editor, Hanging Out
 Susannah
Smith, born and raised in a small town in Virginia at the
foothills of the Blue Ridge, attended Mary Washington College
before transferring to the University of South Florida. She holds
a Bachelor’s degree in Geography and has completed major
coursework toward the Master of Science in International Studies.
She earned an international certificate of proficiency in French
language and culture at the Université de Strasbourg in
Strasbourg, France while a high school student. Susannah has five
children aged 11 to 24. Dividing her time between rural South
Carolina, where her husband is an archaeologist and site manager
for an historic site, and a neighboring small town in North
Carolina, Susannah enjoys volunteering at her children’s school
media center and serving as vocal coach, wardrobe mistress, and
sponsor of the drama club, in addition to playing the flute,
singing with her children, Victorian fly-fishing, photography, and
raising historic breeds of chickens. Her family shares her passion
for history and attends living history events together as 18th
century farm folk, teaching and sharing long-ago life-ways with
others. Avid historians, the couple was married in an
authentically-themed ceremony at a c. 1703 Anglican church near
Charleston, South Carolina. She may be contacted through her
website, at
www.susannaheanes.com.
Irene Rawlings (volunteer)
Staff
Librarian
 Rawlings was born in Michigan, went to
school in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and moved to Colorado in the
1970s. She has been curator of The Anschutz Collection of Western
Art, editor-in-chief of Country Home magazine and art reviewer at
the Denver Post. In addition, she writes extensively about
architecture, travel and the arts for Art & Antiques, the New York
Times, and the Los Angeles Times among others. She has co-authored
two books, The Clothesline (with Andrea Van Steenhouse) and
Portable Houses (with Mary Abel). She continues to host an
award-winning radio talk show on which she interviews book
authors. She enjoys collecting vintage fabrics, fly-fishing in
pristine mountain streams and riding the rails on old luxury
trains like the Orient Express.
 Susan Taylor
(volunteer)
Official
Spokesperson, Right to Dry
Susan Taylor of
Bend, OR, first gained notoriety when The Wall Street
Journal covered her struggle to put up a clothesline. "I am
challenging Brooks Resources, the local developer, to change their
23 year old CC&R's and choose to be a leader by doing what is
right for Central Oregon as well as the rest of our country," she
writes us. Funny,
sharp, and passionate about clotheslines, Susan is a frequent
guest on radio and television shows. Her clothesline story is not
unique, but she has given voice to the thousands of Americans who
are unwilling to put themselves on the line, because they do not
want to create waves in their local association.
 Annalisa Parent
(volunteer)
Staff Photographer
Owner of Parent Studios,
Annalisa has been photographing since she could get her hands on a
camera. Her laundry art has been featured this year in Voice of
America News, Earthflux Magazine, and The Commons. She has been
interviewed regarding her laundry art by Korean Broadcasting
Systems and The New York Times. As a member of the Vermont
Professional Photographers' Association, Parent has won many
ribbons for her laundry art. Additionally, she has hosted three
laundry art shows this year in Vermont, including a laundry poetry
reading by Irish Poet Laureate Greg Delanty at the Montpelier, VT
show. A firm believer in hanging out to dry, her laundry is hung
at www.parentstudios.com/laundry.html. |
