Bob Archibald, Co-President

Bob has more than twenty-five years experience as a business executive and entrepreneur. He founded and headed two companies and served on the executive teams of two others. His formal training is in the social and behavioral sciences. It led him to become a consultant and advisor to business executives where he served as a facilitator, advisor and coach to executives and management teams in large and small companies. Early in his career, Bob served on the faculties of Psychology, Management and Marketing at Ohio State University and as Director of Counseling and Consultation Services on campus. Bob holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah and is a licensed Psychologist.

Mary Ellen Navas, Co-President

Mary Ellen has more than twenty-five years of direct organizational experience in large corporations, small businesses and government institutions. As both a senior manager and as a consultant, she has initiated and led market development, organizational change projects and run profit centers. For 25 years, Mary Ellen served as a Senior Manager with AT&T where she led a variety of teams and departments responsible for product development, product management and marketing. Mary Ellen earned her BA at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia and completed course work toward a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.

Michael Cowley, Board Treasurer

Mike Cowley is a Salt Lake County businessman and member of the e2 business community, dedicated to a sustainable environment. In addition to running his own publishing company, Mike has dedicated much of his time to protecting the environment. Mike has been involved with the environmental movement since the 1970s and was a charter board member of the Utah Wilderness Association. Mike became involved with Families Against Incinerator Risk, HEAL Utah’s precursor organization, in 1999, and is a founding board member of HEAL Utah.

Sue Corth

Sue Corth has been working as an Educational Audiologist for 20 years for the Jordan School District in Utah. She has been involved in several organizations, both as a volunteer and a board member. The last board she sat on was Art Access, an organization promoting art experiences for individuals with disabilities. She has been working with HEAL Utah for several years, first as a volunteer and currently as a board member. She is the proud mother of two children.

Mary Draper

Ms. Draper is a native Utahan. She graduated from the University of Utah and from Brigham Young University LawSchool. After enjoying a lengthy career as an attorney and executive with Williams, she joined the Economic Development Corporation of Utah, a public-private partnership focused on recruitment of new firms to Utah. Presently, Mary is the Executive Director of the Robert W. and Barbara J. Keener foundation. She is also currently on the Advisory Council for Guadalupe Schools, and is a member of the board for the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development.

Edwin Firmage, Jr.

Mr. Firmage makes his living as an outdoor photographer in Salt Lake City, Utah. From 1989 to 1999, he served as a marketing director and product manager for high-tech companies in Utah and Silicon Valley. He studied classics at Princeton and holds an M.A. in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology from U.C. Berkeley, where he was a Mellon Fellow. From 1986–1989, he was a Rotary Foundation scholar at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Mr. Firmage is the author and publisher of Red Rock Yellow Stone, an award-winning combination of photographs of the American West and haiku from Japan, and Simple Gifts, a collection of western landscape photographs and essays developed for and featured at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City.

Diane Mellen

Diane is a recipient of the Ruth-Steinkruas-Cohen Memorial Outstanding Women of Connecticut award, the Executive Director of the Mellen Foundation, Inc., and is also a volunteer crafts teacher at the Ella Jackson Senior Center. Diane served as a member of the Selection Team for the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, and is a member of the Open Space Committee in Park City, Utah.

Jill Sheinberg

Jill Sheinberg is an attorney currently practicing mediation through the Utah Court System. She has lived in Utah since 1995 and has six grandchildren living in the State. She practiced law and taught at Hofstra School of Law before moving to Utah. Jill is a member of the National Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union as well as the Board of the ACLU of Utah. Jill was involved with Families Against Incinerator Risk (FAIR), HEAL Utah's predecessor organization, and is one of the founding members and a past president of HEAL Utah.