String of Pearls is run by volunteers.

Board of Directors

• Mel Bender – Founder of the Magothy River Land Trust
• Robert Duckworth – Retired Clerk of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County
• Lee Epstein, Esq. – Lands Program Director, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
• Dr. Dick Hammerschlag – former NPS and USGS scientist
• Ellen Moyer – former Mayor of Annapolis; Chairman of Arts in Public Places Commission (Annapolis), writer
• Nancy Tankersley – Artist; Studio Owner
• Dr. Dennis Whigham – Senior Botanist, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Secretary of Board
• Mariel Yarbrough, Esq.- Land Conservation Liaison
• In Memoriam: Kincey Potter – SoP Board Member, Co-Chair Anne Arundel Chapter of League of Conservation Voters; Officer, Anne Arundel Watershed Stewardship Academy- Deceased in 2018

Executive Committee, Volunteer Staff

• Kathryn Para – SoP President and Director;  Singer-Songwriter/ Family and Environmental Musician at Togetherly, LLC and “Frolic the Fox”, Retired Soldier,
• Jim Martin –  SoP Vice President; President of Annapolis Arts District, Retired from Free State Printing, Entrepreneur, Former President, Scenic River Land Trust, Community Organizer
• Jessica Snyder —SoP Acting Treasurer; Lab Safety Specialist at University of Maryland, College Park
• Steve Carton – SoP Web Support and Board Member
• David Lahn – Graphic Design
• etta cetera – Web Support

Advisory Committee

• Sen. Edward R. Reilly-  District 33 Maryland  State General Assembly
• Fred Tutman, Patuxent Riverkeeper, Speaker and Educator
• Mike Lofton

• Dick Lahn – Founder and Director– Deceased in 2018
• Kincey Potter – Founding SoP Board Member, Co-Chair Anne Arundel Chapter of League of Conservation Voters; Officer, Anne Arundel Watershed Stewardship Academy- Deceased in 2018
• Dr. Mary Cleave – Founding SoP Board Member, former astronaut and NASA Associate Administrator for Science

Future Volunteers: You?