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Dr. Elizabeth George is a family physician with a commitment to sustaining patient well-being through healthy
lifestyles. To have a bigger impact, in the past five years she has added a focus on community well-being through the
non-profit MACWell (Mercersburg Area Council for Wellness). Dr. George’s earlier experiences included establishing a Maternity
Clinic for patients without insurance – the clinic focused on healthy pregnancy and babies through life style education.
She also served on the faculty of the York Hospital Family Medicine Program establishing their family
centered obstetric care program.
Matt Golas worked in daily newspaper business 35 years, including 20 at the The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he was
Metropolitan Editor. He was also Executive Editor and Vice President of the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. In 2006, Mr. Golas
founded PlanPhilly, now a six-year-old independent news gathering entity affiliated with PennPraxis, the clinical arm of the
School of Design of the University of Pennsylvania. Former reporters and editors from The Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as
citizen journalists, provide daily news coverage of the built and planned environment.
Francis Hanney is Traffic Services Manager/ ADA Coordinator for PennDOT Engineering District 6-0. He has 15 years
of experience in PennDOT District 5-0 and 6-0 and 7 years with the City of Philadelphia. Mr. Hanney holds a BS in Engineering
from Temple University. He is an avid skier, hiker, and guitar player.
April Hannon is the Enhancements Coordinator for PennDOT District 4-0.
She has been with PennDOT for nearly 20 years and has contributed to a number
of trail, bicycle, and pedestrian projects across the region.
Hannah E. Hardy joined PEC in 2003 as the program manager for the
Pennsylvania Water Trails Program. PEC is partnered with the National Park
Service, PA Department of Conservation & Natural Resources, PA Fish & Boat
Commission and other state agencies to implement this statewide program,
which is recognized nationally. The goals of the program are to develop additional
water trails in Pennsylvania and to build a cohesive statewide system of
water trails. Ms. Hardy travels around the Commonwealth providing technical
assistance to local project managers.
Brian Hare is a 23-year PennDOT employee. He is the Chief of the Planning and Contract Management Division in
PennDOT’s Program Center. Prior to that position, he served as Chief of the Design Services Division in the Bureau of
Project Delivery and Chief of the Highway Quality Assurance Division in the Bureau of Design. Mr. Hare graduated from
Widener University with a B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1989. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania.
Brian Harris currently serves as Township Manager / Secretary-Treasurer for Bushkill Township, Northampton County.
He holds a B.S. degree from Penn State University and an M.B.A. from Alvernia University. Mr. Harris has over 10 years of
professional experience in local government and currently serves as the President of the Northampton County Association
of Township Officials, Secretary-Treasurer for the Nazareth Area Council of Governments and serves on the First Regional
Compost Authority. Prior to Bushkill Township, he served as the Borough Manager in Marysville Borough
Shane Hoover works for the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and is the GIS\Information
Technology Coordinator for the Bureau of Recreation and Conservation. Mr. Hoover has been with the Bureau for the
past 12 years leading many of the information technology projects as well as creating a statewide grant GIS layer of
DCNR funded projects.
Mike Horne has worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for 15 years in a variety of capacities. For the past two
years he has served as the project leader for the Wallkill River, Cherry Valley, and Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife
Refuge Complex. His interests include landscape scale conservation efforts, watershed management, and working with
herptiles, especially those that are imperiled by development pressure and loss of habitat. These interests, and his connection
to the agricultural community, make him a natural fit in land protection partnerships along the Kittatinny Ridge. He
obtained a B.S. degree from Juniata College in Biology and Secondary Education and a Ph.D. degree from the Pennsylvania
State University in Wildlife Ecology and Statistics.
Carol Hussa Most recently, Ms. Hussa was the project director for Steps to a Healthier PA - Luzerne County, part of
the CDC’s first national efforts to build healthier communities on a local level using proven strategies to improve access
to active living and good nutrition in order to prevent, reduce and manage chronic disease. She currently helps to coordinate
the Wilkes-Barre Family YMCA’s Healthy Community program and is the Pocono Forest and Waters Conservation Landscape
Initiative Coordinator for the Pennsylvania Environmental Council. In the past Ms. Hussa has worked in grant writing,
fundraising and public relations for the Girl Scouts of Penn’s Woods Council, WVIA Public Television and Radio
and Penn State Wilkes-Barre.
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