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 named Abigail, in an intentional housing cooperative.

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 Napa 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.

Claudia joined ISI in summer of 2017, as our Special Projects Manager and all-around organizational development specialist. Claudia has over twenty years experience as executive team manager and creative director for many international projects. Her calling in life is to bring together creativity and business to design sustainable and regenerative systems. She holds an Integral MBA in Creative Enterprises for Social Transformation from Meridian University and is currently pursuing her Ph.d. She lives and works with her artist husband and her pets in rural Nevada City.

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.

Jacquie (she/her) joined the ISI team in September of 2022. She comes to us with 10+ years of supervisory and operations experience in corporate retail. In 2016, she was recruited to operations in the nonprofit sector. There she supported development, while spearheading finance, logistics, and events. In addition to her professional career, Jacquie is also a successful fiber artist and craftivist. Specializing in custom hand embroidery, her work ecompasses pop culture, politics, and social justice themes. Originally from Western New York, she currently resides in Santa Rosa with her husband and their pets. In her free time, she enjoys reading, films, and juggling many creative hobbies. 

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 named Abigail, 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.