Alan Durning, executive director, founded Northwest Environment Watch in 1993, which became Sightline Institute in 2006. Durning has written or contributed to nine Sightline books, including most recently, Sightline's Cascadia Scorecard 2007. Past books include Tax Shift (1998), Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things (1997), and the award-winning This Place on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence (1996). Current topics of focus for Alan include walkability, bike friendliness, and climate fairness. Prior to founding Sightline, Durning was a senior researcher at Worldwatch Institute where he studied the human dimensions of sustainability, and wrote the award-winning book How Much Is Enough?, along with chapters in seven State of the World reports and articles in hundreds of other publications. A sought-after speaker, he has lectured at the White House, major universities, and conferences on five continents. Click here for a full bio. Email: alan (at) sightline.org. Read Alan's latest blog posts here.

Eric de Place, senior researcher, contributes research and writing for the Cascadia Scorecard, especially on sprawl, economic security, wildlife, and other topics. He also writes for the Daily Score blog and contributes to a number of other Sightline projects, including climate policy in the western states. In 2006, Eric’s work helped defeat ballot initiatives in several Western states that would have severely eroded community and environmental protections. Before coming to Sightline, he worked with the Northwest Area Foundation, helping communities develop strategies to alleviate poverty. He has a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. After the world gets fixed, Eric plans to spend much more time reading good books beside remote mountain lakes. Email: eric (at) sightline.org. Read Eric's latest blog posts here.

Peter Drury, development director, brings to Sightline a passion for sustainability and economics, together with a rich background in ethics, leadership, management, development, communications and strategy. A graduate of Yale, the University of Washington, and the University of Illinois, Peter is presently an MBA candidate at Seattle University. In his spare time, Peter serves on the Institutional Review Board (Ethics Committee) of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and is Past President of MultifaithWorks, an interfaith AIDS and MS services agency. He is the proud father of inspirational daughters, and may occasionally be found stomping around the living room in yellow boots. Email: peter(at) sightline.org.

Anna Fahey, communications strategist, oversees opinion research, develops and distills best practices in messaging, and builds collaborations with allied organizations. Growing up, Anna spent her days working on her family’s commercial fishing boats and poking around the rocky beaches of the San Juans. She was the art critic for the Seattle Weekly, and, for half a dozen years, headed up communications for the Henry Art Gallery. After heading back to grad school and receiving an MA in political communication from the University of Washington, Anna has earned her share of campaign-trail battle scars as a political strategist in central Washington. Email: anna (at) sightline.org. Read Anna's latest blog posts here.

Christine Hanna, director of strategic initiatives, has been with Sightline since 2002 (formerly as managing director), and oversees special projects for Sightline. Christine has economics and business degrees from the University of Virginia and the University of Washington, and before joining Sightline enjoyed an entrepreneurial career in marketing technologies. Sightline's mission of fostering a healthy, lasting prosperity resonates with Christine's respect for market dynamics and reverence of the natural world. When she's not thinking about how to empower more people with Sightline's work, you can find Christine working on some crazy house project, cooking, or doting alternately on her dog Sam or her husband Pete. Email: christine (at) sightline.org. Note: From January to June 2008, Christine is on leave from Sightline.

Kristin Kolb, editor of Sightline Daily, an online news service that Sightline acquired (as Tidepool.org) in 2006, studied at Oberlin College and the University of Missouri School of Journalism. In the late 1990s, Kristin served as news editor of In These Times, a biweekly political magazine based in Chicago. Since moving to the Northwest in 2001, she has directed communications for the Vancouver-based Rainforest Solutions Project, a coalition advocating protection of British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest, and served as campaign communications director for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in Portland. Email: kristin (at) sightline.org.

Ketty Loeb, development associate, is Sightline’s grant writer and foundations contact. A native of Portland, Ketty grew up orienteering in Eastern Oregon, exploring the Cascades, and sailing the San Juan Islands. She completed a BA at University of Puget Sound, and then attained Ph.D. candidacy in Political Science at University of Washington where she studied environmental politics and social movements. After living in China and studying the impact of non-governmental organizations on the implementation of environmental regulations there, she decided it was time to return to the Pacific Northwest (the best place on earth!) and go to work promoting sustainability in her own back yard. Ketty is also President of the Seattle Chapter of Wokai, a microfinance organization that helps China’s poor. Email: ketty (at) sightline.org

Pam MacRae, finance manager, ensures that Sightline’s sustainability extends to its finances. With a degree in Peace Studies from Colgate University, she has worked since 1990 at nonprofits focused on disarmament, death penalty abolition, community economic development, and immigrant rights. She started bookkeeping in 1995. Pam is excited to work at an organization that embraces car-lessness. She spends much of her free time maintaining hiking trails and playing in a circus band.

Mieko Moody, office administrator and executive assistant, helps keep the Sightline office running smoothly. Before joining Sightline, she spent five years exploring the administrative and development side of the non-profit social service field. Mieko grew up in California and received her B.S. from the University of California Riverside, but has enjoyed getting to know the Cascadia bioregion. She lives with her husband and two furry four-leggeds in Everett.

Elisa Murray, communications director, coordinates media and outreach for Sightline. She holds degrees from Dartmouth College and Johns Hopkins University and has worked as an editor at Eastsideweek newspaper and Q. Magazine in Ecuador. She has also served as a public information specialist for the University of Washington. Outside of Sightline she likes to travel, run, ski, play Scrabble, and write about odd bits of Northwestiana. She is vice-chair of Homewaters Project, a watershed education nonprofit in greater Seattle that, among other projects, leads the best urban hikes in the city. Email: elisa (at) sightline.org.

Stacey Panek, senior development associate, manages Sightline’s donor membership program. Want to join? Give her a call! Stacey grew up in Michigan and attended U of M for her B.A. in English, but she considers Cascadia (where her mom was born and raised) the Motherland. When she’s not here at Sightline, Stacey enjoys swimming, running, and biking (Danskin triathlon!); playing the piano; doing yoga; and heading to the wilds to kayak, hike, or check out the birds that flutter through the bioregion. Email: stacey (at) sightline.org.

Clark Williams-Derry, research director, directs research for the Cascadia Scorecard project, Sightline's index of regional progress for the Northwest, and many other Sightline research projects, including climate policy and our 2004 PBDE study. Previously, Williams-Derry served as a senior analyst with the Environmental Working Group (EWG) in Washington DC, where he coauthored more than a dozen reports and led the development of EWG's farm subsidies database. He has also spoken widely on environmental and economic issues. Williams-Derry graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1989 with a joint degree in mathematics and philosophy. He lives in the Seattle neighborhood of Ravenna with his wife Amy and daughters Madeline and Eliza. Click here for a full bio. Email: clark (at) sightline.org. Read Clark's latest blog posts here.

Christine Winckler, production assistant, keeps Sightline’s online outreach products on track. Originally from Minnesota, Christine was lured to Washington by its lush forests and striking landscapes. Currently, she is finishing her degree in Community, Environment and Planning from the University of Washington. Outside of Sightline, Christine loves dancing, writing fiction, and building websites. Email: Christinew at sightline.org.