CLAM Board of Directors

Maureen Cornelia moved to the Bay area from affordable upstate New York in 1993. She quickly came to understand the impact that the area’s high cost of real estate has upon communities. After a sales and marketing career in high tech, she was drawn to the Inverness/Point Reyes area by the sense of community, the activism of its residents, and the beauty of the land. An early CLAM supporter, Maureen joined the CLAM Board to support its efforts in creating affordable housing options for this vibrant, diverse community. Maureen brings great experience as a sales/marketing professional, and she’s also an avid gardener. Maureen serves on the Fundraising Committee.

Nancy has worked with non-profit organizations for 20 years, as a social worker, counselor, teacher, project manager, and representative to the public through written and oral communication. Her second career for the last 10 years has been to offer therapeutic bodywork and massage to people of all ages, and especially to seniors. She also practices Tai Chi, Aikido, and kayaking. She wishes to support affordable housing, which benefits everyone in the community. Nancy serves on the Fundraising and Tenant Relations Committees and manages CLAM volunteer projects.

Susan Brayton has been involved with CLAM since its first informal meetings, was a founding board member in 2001, and rejoined the board in May 2011. She says, “Having adequate, affordable shelter that doesn’t drain your personal resources is a basic human right.” She is committed to CLAM’s goal to provide affordable homes for individuals and families in this area in order to preserve the health of a multi-faceted community. She has worked for nonprofits in San Francisco, served on the board of Gallery Route One, and is a member of Point Reyes Open Studios Memorial Day and Thanksgiving weekend art exhibits. Susan has lived in Inverness since 1978. She has served continuously on the Fundraising Committee.

2011 is Rishi’s 40th year in Point Reyes. He has raised five children and run a successful business here. He says, “This is a vital and exciting community and we need to do so much to keep it that way.
We all need CLAM: some of us because it is our best chance to stay in the community we love, some of us because we know that diversity is the foundation of a healthy community, all of us because there is economic and social justice in sharing what we do and where we live.”
He has served on the boards of the Dance Palace, Inverness Yacht Club, the Marin Library Foundation, Amigos de las Americas, the Integral Yoga Institute. He has volunteered with West Marin Senior Services, Berkeley Family Camp, the San Francisco Opera House. “When we work together, when we serve each other, we gain so much and all around us benefit. I believe that this is the highest good.”

Jon Fernandez came to Point Reyes in 1983 to escape the hectic urban scene of Los Angeles. He comes to the CLAM Board with 30+ years as an architectural designer, and experience as a general contractor. Jon joined CLAM because he thinks making sure people who work here can afford to live here is an extremely important priority in our community. John serves on the Property Committee.

Lorraine Masters Fisher-Smith has been a West Marin resident since 1988, and has served her community as a Certified Massage Therapist since 1990. Lorraine is an active volunteer at West Marin School functions and sits on the Shoreline Unified School District Wellness Committee. She is a founding member of the recently re-activated West Marin Parent-Teacher-Student Association, chairs the PTSA Student Nutritional Advisory Committee (SNAC), and has coached soccer in the West Marin Youth Soccer League’s Recreational division for the past six years. Lorraine’s motivation to be on the CLAM board of directors stems from watching friends and good community members leave West Marin in order to find affordable housing elsewhere. Lorraine lives with her husband and two children in the Point Reyes area where she enjoys bicycling, swimming and hiking.
Lorraine serves on the Tenant Selection and Tenant Relations Committees.

Maggie grew up in Inverness. After spending some years living outside of West Marin she realized, as a young adult, that this land and this community are her home. For the past four years Maggie has been re-connecting to her home community while struggling to find decent and affordable housing in which to make a home for herself. Maggie brings to the board a window onto the next generation of community members in West Marin, reminding us all that our resilience relies on our ability to provide shelter for those that serve our community and want to carry it on into the future.

Kerry Munger Livingston, a longtime West Marin resident, has plenty of experience in the local housing situation: she and her husband were renters raising three children for fifteen years (five rentals in Point Reyes Station and Olema) before finally finding one of the last affordable houses in Inverness eight years ago. Her father, Carl Munger, co-founded CLAM at a time that he could see first-hand the housing frustrations of lower income West Marin residents. Kerry has been a West Marin librarian for 20 years, the last 17 of those at Stinson Beach and Bolinas libraries. She and her husband, California historian Dewey Livingston, have three children: Molly, a senior at UC Santa Cruz; Ben, a senior at Tomales High School; and Nora, a junior at Midland School. Kerry serves on the Tenant Selection and Tenant Relations committees.

Marshall has been involved in housing issues in West Marin for thirty years as a renter, homeowner, designer, builder and landlord. As a licensed contractor and real estate broker, his experience with ownership, financing, construction and tenant/landlord law and relations are valuable components to CLAM and the community. He is committed to the creation of low cost housing for all members of the community. He is on the Design Review Committee of the Point Reyes Station Village Association and the board of the West Marin Youth Soccer League. He lives in Inverness with his wife and children.
Marshall serves on the Property Committee.

Marc first visited West Marin as a boy in the 1950s, and Inverness in the late 1960s. He had been returning as a visitor throughout the turn of the 21st century when he retired and moved to Inverness in 2009, as a renter. Marc’s livelihood for 20 years has been as an organizational and administrative guru, working in corporate, non-profit and proprietorship environments, as well as a financial analyst and loan administrator for a New York bank for ten years. He has served as a volunteer and event coordinator for Northern California Shambhala, a Buddhist meditation organization, and founded the Tamalpais Shambhala Meditation Group in San Rafael in 2001. Marc appreciates the landscapes, communities, and potentials for resiliency of West Marin, and hopes to benefit future generations – human and wildlife – through his participation with CLAM and other local organizations. Marc serves on the Fundraising Committee.

June has been a West Marin resident since 2005. She is a singer and community organizer, local events and fundraising coordinator, and the founder of the no-cost, multi-generational educational network West Marin Freeskool.
She comes to CLAM with personal experience with the difficulties around being a young family trying to live and thrive in an exceptional community with very little affordable housing. She is excited to join Clam as a board member and to work towards bringing new energy to advocacy for resilient community building, local policy change around alternative sustainable housing as well as successful property management through good tenant communication and reliable methods of conflict resolution. June serves on the Property Committee.

Susan Scott, a regular visitor to Point Reyes since 1975, recently moved to Inverness from Sacramento, where she’s lived, raised children, and worked as an attorney for the past 23 years. She has spent the past 15 years organizing, developing and living in one of the first American urban cohousing projects (Southside Park Cohousing) and the first with an affordable financing program for low and moderate income residents. Upon moving to Inverness, she immediately began working for affordable housing here and joined the Interim CLAM Board in June of 2002. She returned to the board in 2011. She is committed to using the land trust home ownership model to further the creation of a viable self-sustaining multi-income community in the Tomales Bay area. She has served continuously on the Property Committee.

Nancy Adess has lived in Inverness since 1983. She has been on the boards of the West Marin Health Project (now the West Marin Health Alliance), the Jack Mason Museum, and the West Marin Music Festival. She has also worked with MALT, Papermill Creek School, West Marin Literacy Project, and Gallery Route One. In her work life, Nancy edits books on natural history, fundraising, and community organizing and social justice. Her career has been spent working for and with nonprofit groups.

Christa Burgoyne  has served on CLAM’s Fundraising Committee since 2001 because she believes that a community can only stay viable if it provides local housing that people who contribute to the community can afford to rent or buy.

Bonnie has worked for over 20 years as a city planner, with extensive management experience in policy and land use planning processes for local government agencies. She also developed and managed a local government economic development program for many years, and has led several strategic planning processes. In addition, Bonnie has served on a number of non-profit boards of directors and committees for a variety of organizations in San Francisco and West Marin. She has lived in Inverness since 2006.

Rae served as CLAM Executive Director from January 2003 to June 15, 2010.