The LCA board generally meets on the second Thursday evening of each month. To view our Board meeting agendas, please click here!

LCA remembers Marty Illick, Executive Director

Marty Illick worked with the Lewis Creek Association from its inception in 1990, and other Vermont environmental initiatives since 1975. See our remembrance of Marty and her husband Terry at this page. She was a research and development consultant in the organic agriculture and food industry, a board member of the Charlotte Land Trust, Addison County River Watch Collaborative, South Chittenden River Watch, and a commissioner of the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission.

Marty worked with manufacturing businesses and nonprofits that promote socially and environmentally sound services and products, and communities to promote ecologically based community planning and citizen activism. Marty’s academic studies included cultural anthropology, sociology, nutrition science, and food product development.

Kate Kelly, Program Manager

Kate grew up in Vermont, and is a conservation biologist and herpetologist living in Hinesburg. She also works for the Vermont Reptile and Amphibian Atlas, and is chair of the Hinesburg Conservation Commission. She loves teaching others in a hands-on way about the natural environment around them, and enjoys spending time outside with her family in her free time. 

sara lovitz, watershed program assistant

Sara grew up in central Maine spending her childhood summers on Great Pond. She has experience working on local food systems, climate change, and urban stream restoration around New England and New Zealand. She has been exploring the confluence of the Patrick Brook and LaPlatte River for the past eight years with her two children and dog, and is excited to be working in the watershed with LCA. She also enjoys hiking, biking, and nordic skiing with her family in and around Hinesburg.

ANDREA MORGANTE, board PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER

Andrea loves working with people, plants, earth and water as active member of the community serving on the Hinesburg Select Board and Hinesburg Land Trust as a landscape designer and contractor in Chittenden and Addison County. She has been recognized for her environmental activities with awards from the Vermont Land Trust, Environmental Protection Agency and the Vermont Association of Profession Horticulturalists.

Louis DuPont, Board Member

Louis credits a key elementary school teacher and memorable camping and hiking trips as a kid for inspiring his love of the outdoors. Though his work life has focused on building and woodworking, volunteering on behalf of the environment is one way of showing gratitude to this gorgeous planet and getting to work with inspired and inspiring people. Louis lives in Starksboro with his wife Ellen and their two girls.

Myra Handy, Vice president and Board Member

Myra began volunteering with the Lewis Creek Association in 2007 removing frogbit and monitoring water quality in Shelburne’s section of the LaPlatte River. She joined the board of LCA soon afterwards as she transitioned out of full-time social work. Myra admires and learns from LCA's data-driven approach to solutions in its watersheds, and working alongside this knowledgeable, fun team and volunteers is a huge bonus.  She appreciates how LCA’s work makes a real difference in the towns it covers. In her personal time, she spends parts of every day outdoors witnessing nature’s ever-changing beauty and the feeling of awe and gratitude this affords. She enjoys creating through gardening and knitting, playing her recorders, nordic skiing, kayaking, hiking, biking, yoga and taking advantage of the many nature-based and artistic opportunities offered locally.

Peter Erb, Board Member

Peter lives in Hinesburg with his wife DeeDee. He is retired from the Hinesburg Planning and Zoning Department after a stint of 15 years. Previously, he lived in the small mountain town of Shrewsbury in Rutland County, where he was very active on the Planning Commission, and personally worked on land conservation via land trust protection and State acquisition, as well as wilderness preservation in the national forests.  He grew up in a very rural, forested part of New Jersey and most of his youth was spent playing in, and learning about “the woods”.  Peter has a shop where he crafts wood and metal into anything from furniture to bird feeders. He has been on the LCA board for 10 years, attempting to put his planning experience and his passion for thinking out the box to continued use.

CHRIS RUNCIE, BOARD MEMBER

Chris works as a naturalist/educator for Four Winds Nature Institute, teaching, writing, and developing programs about natural science. She serves on the board of The Watershed Center in Bristol, the Forest & Field Club, and the Starksboro Public Library. She takes part in Mountain Birdwatch, a citizen science bird monitoring program run by the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, and is a member of the Vermont Entomological Society. Chris is keenly interested in insects, flowers, ferns, frogs, and benthic macroinvertebrates - to name a few. She loves to engage people of all ages in learning about nature and is committed to conserving and protecting our beautiful watershed.

Stephen Hale, Board member

Stephen is a semi-retired Marine Ecologist, writer, cartoonist, and editor. Over his career he worked for the Alaska Department of Fish & Game, the University of Rhode Island, and the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Currently, he writes a quarterly column for the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation’s CERF’s Up! science bulletin and continues as Co-Editor of the Rhode Island Naturalist. He is a member of the Charlotte Trails Committee, a cyanobacteria monitor for the Lake Champlain Committee, and a Vermont Master Naturalist.

Stephen joined the LCA Board to continue his long-term engagement with the watershed he lives in. Previously, he was on the board of the Narrow River Preservation Association, a watershed organization on the Rhode Island coast. 

He lives in Charlotte with his wife Lynne, a fellow LCA water quality monitor. Their youngest son Andy and family also live in Charlotte. They all enjoy nature, hiking, skiing, kayaking, camping, and gardening.

abel fillion, Board member

Abel lives in Shelburne. He is an LCA board member and water sampling volunteer. Abel loves to bike, ski, and putter around his vegetable garden.

Callie douglass, Board Member (Ferrisburgh)

Zoe Sheldon, Board Member

Zoë grew up in Chittenden County and lives in Charlotte with her family. She has worked in conservation biology and yoga therapy, and now keeps a small flock of wool sheep and a large garden. She is delighted to be part of LCA's ongoing work connecting and protecting the watershed. 

Megan McBride, Board MEmber

Megan McBride lives with her family in Shelburne and has spent countless hours exploring the LaPlatte watershed. Growing up in rural Vermont inspired her love of nature (and of exploring muddy river banks!). Megan has a professional background in environmental policy and sustainable development. She is excited to be a part of the LCA board and to help support the wonderful work the LCA does to protect and strengthen local watersheds.

Stevie Spencer, Treasurer

Stevie has lived for 32 years in Hinesburg with her husband Rolf and her three kids.

Even though she graduated from college with a degree in art history, she quickly became involved in environmental education and organic farming. At present, besides her involvement with Lewis Creek Association, Stevie volunteers for Hospice, mentors in the school, and is involved with Responsible Growth Hinesburg.

Vegetable gardening and weaving are her passions.