Our Board of Directors | Loudoun Environmenta

Board of Directors

LEEA is made up an all-volunteer board of directors with a passion for environmental education, holding monthly meetings to further our mission.

Mark Pankau, Board Chair

Mark Pankau is a retired LCPS teacher and school garden club coordinator. He started a school garden club teacher email newsletter called the Northwest Virginia Regional GREENetwork to share environmental and sustainable news. After joining LEEA, he served two years as the Advocacy Chair before becoming the new LEEA Board Chair.

Erica Cuevas, Membership Chair

Erika Cuevas is the Community Engagement Manager at Loudoun Water. She continues to serve a second term as the LEEA Membership Chair and has previously served as a Co-Chair on the LEEA Board of Directors.

Diana Weber, Communications Chair

Diana Weber is the director of the nonprofit, Educational Climate Solutions (ECS). ECS provides outdoor climate change education to elementary school students as well as solutions to decrease the schools’ climate warming emissions. Diana is also active with Keep Loudoun Beautiful as a clean-up area leader.

Chad Green, Treasurer

Chad Green has been an internal program evaluator at Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) since 2005. He is also co-founder/co-chair of the Educational Research and Evaluation Network, a regional collaborative of school district researchers and evaluators in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. As a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Latvia, 1994-96), he continues to give back to the community as an area leader for Keep Loudoun Beautiful (SE Leesburg-Heritage area) and trail leader for the bluebird nest boxes located around the LCPS Administration Building.

Tom Boone, Secretary

Tom Boone brings a lifetime of concern for the environment and almost 20 years of entrepreneurial business related to helping our planet with sustainability and conservation. Most recently, he founded NextGenTreesUSA, a national company whose mission is to get kids to plant tree seedlings to fundraise for their school’s educational enrichment programs and, longer term, to help reduce the CO2 in the air.