Key Volunteers

This is the group of volunteers who keep our organization running like a well-greased pulley-style clothesline. Without this dedicated group, Project Laundry List would be nothing.

Joshua Arnold

Google APPS Manager

Josh Arnold of Ossipee, NH, works with the board and volunteers to maintain email accounts and to maximize the effectiveness of Google Apps in building our on-line, clothesline community.

Josh is also a co-producer, with Alexander Lee, of the Starting at Home TV program. His nonprofit organization, Global Awareness Local Action (G.A.L.A.), is jointly responsible for the programming, production, and overall success of this effort.

Josh currently resides in Water Village, Ossipee, NH, living at the Ossipee Mt. Grange Hall. Josh purchased the Grange Hall in the summer of 2008 with the determination to revitalize the space based on three-floor plan - first floor as a local foods cooperative, second floor (the hall) as a venue for arts, education, and advocacy, and the third-floor as a green-job incubator.

You may email Josh at jarnold @ laundrylist.org.

Nadiza Ivanović Bulkowski

FaceBooker-in- Chief

Nadiza helps keep our Facebook page current and edgy, building our community of activists and clothesline lovers into a stronger on-line and down-to-Earth movement.

Nadiza was born in Germany to a German mother and Serbian father, then came to the United States when she was three. She grew up in Chicago in a culturally diverse home and neighborhood. She had a red plastic toy clothesline and brightly-colored red, blue, yellow and green wooden one-piece clothespins when she was 5 or 6 and loved hanging her doll clothes out. "The feeling stayed with me into adulthood," she says. Diagnosed with MS in 1988, Nadiza was art of book "Living Beyond Multiple Sclerosis: A Women's Guide" (2000). She now lives in NW Indiana and besides her interests in the environment, cooking, gardening and reading, she is a remarkable archer. Look out!

You may email Nadiza at nbulkowski @ laundrylist.org.

Kate Copsey

Pegger-in-Chief

Kate Copsey is British, so she finds hanging laundry out a natural thing to do. A freelance garden and education writer, Kate has moved around the country and always finds a new home that allows solar drying--she currently hangs laundry in northwestern Ohio. A natural communicator, Kate finds ways to introduce hanging laundry into as many conversations as possible.

You may email Kate at blogger @ laundrylist.org.

Ben Davis

cREATOR OF rIGHT2DRY.ORG

Ben Davis runs two SF-based graphic design and communication firms. In 1995 he founded Words Pictures Ideas with the guiding mantra of “Do Good. Have Fun. Learn. Make a Living.” In 2008, he opened a firm dedicated exclusively to purpose-driven design with the unlikely and unwieldy name I Shot Him Because I Loved Him, Damn Him with the simple mission “Changing Hearts, Minds and Habits.” Ben has a passion for legacy projects—major civic and social projects that will create generational positive impacts. He is the creator of www.right2dry.org. He and his team are leading the cause to get The White House to hang out like the rest of us.

You may email Ben at ben @ wpiweb.com.

Cindy Etter-Turnbull

Mrs. Clothesline

Cindy Etter-Turnbull (aka Mrs. Clothesline) of Windsor, Nova Scotia, is the laundress who works with our staff librarian, Irene Rawlings, to answer questions about laundry. Together, both of these women hold a treasure trove of clothesline and laundry information.

If you want to learn more about Cindy Etter-Turnbull or her book, Fine Lines, you can visit Mrs. Clothesline's website.

You may email Cindy at questions @ laundrylist.org or mrsclothesline @ laundrylist.org.

Stephania Fregosi

ART Manager

Stephania Fregosi lives in Salem, OR, and is the past coordinator of the Project Laundry List 2009 Art Contest. She assists with keeping the oodles of pictures on Flickr, Picassa, Facebook, and other places on our website organized and coordinating other art related fund raising.

Stephania traces her interest in the environment to her childhood spent on the coast of Maine and summers in Vermont. She became more serious about environmental work during a high school semester-away program at The Mountain School in Vershire, Vermont. She graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in Environmental Studies in 1996 and a M.S.E.L. from the Vermont Law School in 1999. Most recently, Stephania spent a year of volunteer service in AmeriCorps in Oregon where she ran Venetas Downtown Farmers Market, wrote a Community Facilities Assessment, and ran other programs for the City of Veneta. She first volunteered for Project Laundry List in 1999 and in 2009 ran Project Laundry List's first Art On the Line Contest. Stephania also runs her own business, Three Fates Yarns, where she sells her hand-dyed yarns and fiber.

You may email Stephania at sfregosi @ laundrylist.org.

Jonathan Gregory

Starting at Home Liasion

Jonathan Gregory of Concord, NH, is the liasion with the Starting at Home TV show crew for Project Laundry List. He is the immediate past coordinator of the Second Annual A Touch of Color: Clotheslines in the Capital for Project Laundry List.

Jonathan works at Concord's Bona Fide Green Goods and plays a leading role in Green Concord. He is among the many young entrepreneurs today creatively engaging the local community while bringing an elevated appreciation of the natural world to the forefront. His early works have encompassed vast methods of sustainable living, in which he believes education and experience is the root of all adaptations and positive change. In his free time, Jonathan volunteers for numerous organizations, Project Laundry List included, which strive to make positive impacts on our livelihoods, our health and our environmental relations. Guiding his path for future economic sustainability is the recognition that human interactions with other living organisms must be mutually beneficial.

You may email Jonathan at jgregory @ laundrylist.org.

Justin Herrin

WEBMASTER

Justin Herrin of Bedford, NH, will regularly backup our websites content, keep the Joomla software up-to-date, and handle all server-related questions. He is available for trobleshooting of components and extensions.

You may email Justin at jherrin @ laundrylist.org.

Lou Ann Homan-Saylor

Clothes Peg Manager

Lou Ann Holman-Saylor works with Sheila Kitts and Kate Copsey to make sure that the blog content is fresh and exciting, timing new posts so that they appear simultaneous with the release of our monthly newsletter. She is a writer and enthusiast.

You may email Lou Ann at lhoman @ laundrylist.org.

Sheila Kitts

Editor, Hanging Out

Sheila Kitts is the editor and designer of Hanging Out, Project Laundry List's email newsletter. She is the owner of Soapbox, a graphic design and marketing company in Abilene, Texas, that works exclusively with socially and environmentally responsible nonprofits and businesses. A married mother of toddler twin boys, her clothesline is 95.7% filled with cloth diapers and she wouldn't have it any other way!

You may email Sheila at skitts @ laundrylist.org.

Anne Lawrence

Content Contributor

Anne is a native Bostonian, having graduated from Girls’ Latin School and Tufts University, but has lived half of her life in the midwest – first in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and currently in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is the mother of two adult daughters and two small grandsons. She has worked in administrative positions in the field of education (just recently retiring from Brandeis University) as well as founded and operated her own small word processing business called The Wordworks. Unfortunately, since living in condo associations for many years, she has been forced to design interior drying arrangements in her basement, her garage, and laundry room – but still has hopes that some day she will once again be free to let it all hang out outdoors!

You may email Anne at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Allie Lefebrve

Linkedin coordinator

Allie Lefebvre of CA is a mother and clothesline activist. She maintains our presence on Change.org, periodically sending data captured through Change.org to Sheila Kitts for inclusion in the iContact system. Change.org is an online activism platform for social change that raises awareness about important causes and connects people to opportunities for powerful action.

You may email Allie at alefebrve @ laundrylist.org.

Joe Lieber

MASSACHUSETTS Right to Dry CO-Leader

Joe is an attorney in Boston at a small firm, Klein Hornig LLP, that specializes in affordable housing and community development. He has three boys, ages 7 to 14, and is a longtime coach in the local youth baseball league. About ten years back, he ran a pulley-based clotheseline from the second floor back deck of my his Victorian across the yard to a big old tree. His family's laundry hangs in the breeze 20-25 feet above the heavily used backyard. Neighborhood kids play basketball, soccer and the like beneath it. When he first put this clothesline up people said "it looks like a tenement" - now everyone wants to copy it!

You may email Joe at jlieber @ kleinhornig.com.

Tina McElhattan

Laundry Cartographer

Tina lives not far from St. Louis, Missouri. She rides horses and maintains the Project Laundry List Clotheslines Across America Map, which includes photographs of clotheslines and nice racks from people's backyards and communities the world over.

You may email Tina at myclothesline @ laundrylist.org.

Chris Middings

Web Editor

Chris is the web editor at Seventh Generation. He's spent the last twenty years working on energy issues, including time with EPA's Energy Star Program and as Green Seal's Energy Efficiency Director. He keeps PLL's Google Adwords program running efficiently.

You may email Chris at ccm @ seventhgeneration.com.

Patrick O'Malley

Linkedin coordinator

Patrick O'Malley of Massachusetts helps Project Laundry List, especially in times of transition, to optimize its use of LinkedIn, a professional network whose mission is to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful.

Patrick O’Malley loves and lives Social Media, and can show you how to utilize them to get new customers and maintain relationships with current customers. Patrick is an internationally known expert on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google SEM and Google SEO.

You may email Patrick at pat @ patrickomalley.com.

Annalisa Parent

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.

You may email Annalisa at aparent @ laundrylist.org.

Tina Rasnow

California Right to Dry Leader

Tina Rasnow of Newbury Park, CA, is a spunky, retired lawyer who gets things done. She is the primary contact and coordinator of people in California who want to change the rules and laws so that people can hang out their clothes in the golden sunshine of the Left Coast.

You may email Tina at california @ laundrylist.org.

Irene Rawlings

Staff Librarian

Irene Rawlings of Denver, CO, is the She 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.

You may email Irene at librarian @ laundrylist.org.

Colleen Ann Reidy

FacebookER

Colleen Ann Reidy of Enfield, CT helps keep our Facebook page flowing and active. She has lived in Connecticut the majority of her life andisactive in making her community a better place.A marriedmother of 3, Colleenhas been line drying the majority of her family's laundry for close to 20 years. Colleen would like to see the day where every American can dry their laundry on a clothesline, in their yard; without the fear of fines, or of losing their home.

You can contact Colleen through Facebook.

Laura Shafer

Chief SpokesLaundress

Laura Shafer of Sebastapol, CA, is the founder of LineDry.org, an artist, mother and massage therapist. She is the main contact for members of the press. It is her name that appears at the top of news releases and she helps researchers and reporters find the facts, figures, information, experts, and stories that help them to tell our tale. She has been photographing clotheslines for her 'Art of the Line' series for 20 years. She and her husband custom build, sell and install ready-made clotheslines in Sonoma county. Her song "Line Dry" has been heard on the radio in California and was played on the BBC radio show Women's Hour last year. Being part of the Right to Dry movement and hanging out with other enthusiasts is a dream come true.

You may email Lauraat les @ linedry.com or (707) 823-5421.

Elizabeth Sullivan

Content and Data Wrangler

Elizabeth Sullivan of Boston, MA, maintains Project Laundry List's website content and member database. Liz commutes by bike (all year round!) to her job as Online Content Manager at Babson College and is currently enrolled in the Babson MBA program, focusing on marketing. She lives with her husband Dave in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston, where her indoor drying rack gets heavy use, drying laundry and providing a favorite climbing structure for her two cats. When she's not doing laundry or occupied with mountains of schoolwork, Liz enjoys home-curing, pickling, preserving, plain old cooking, and sharing the fruits of her labor with family and friends.

You may email Elizabeth at esullivan @ laundrylist.org.

Susan Taylor

Associate SpokesLaundress, Right to Dry

Susan Taylor of Bend, OR, is among the most persecuted of line dryers in the nation, but she is an articulate and passionate spokeslaundress for the right of every American to hang out the clothes. Susan 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.

You may email Susan at staylor @ laundrylist.org.