DBWP Staff

Victoria Mills, Executive Director

Tori graduated from St. Lawrence University with a degree in Environmental Studies and History, with a Fine Arts minor. Since then, she has worked as an environmental planner and educator. Tori worked for the Oceanarium of Maine, the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), both domestically and abroad, before returning to Cleveland.  Her focus since has been on watersheds, first working at the Cuyahoga River Remedial Action Plan, then at the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes as the Doan Brook Educator and the Director of Sustainability. She first joined the Partnership as Interim Director in 2006. 

Tori resides within the Doan Brook Watershed and is proud to follow in the footsteps of her ancestors, who not only farmed 200 acres along the Doan in the 1800s, but opened their homes as underground railroad stations as well.

Mary Ryan, Program Administrator

Mary has enjoyed working in outreach and education for large and small non-profit organizations for over 10 years. An avid hiker, photographer and rower, she can be found messing around in boats on the Cuyahoga River or walking the many trails in the Shaker Parklands when not dreaming up ways to help people engage with the watershed.

2011-12 Doan Brook Watershed Partnership Board of Trustees

DBWP Executive Committee

Chairman: Darnell Brown Chief Operating Officer, City of Cleveland  

President: Nancy Moore Councilwoman, City of Shaker Heights  

Vice President: Karen Knittel  Planner, City of Cleveland Heights

Secretary: Chris Bongorno  Planning & Sustainability Manager, University Circle, Inc.

Treasurer: Laura Gooch  At-Large Citizen Representative & Engineering Consultant 

Trustees

Dorothy Adams   At-Large Citizen Representative     President, Herrick Road Street Club

David Beach   Director, GreenCityBlueLake Institute    Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Bill Boag   Director of Public Works, City of Shaker Heights

Bonnie Caplan   Councilwoman, City of Cleveland Heights

Kay Carlson   Executive Director, the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes 

Nancy Dietrich   At-Large Citizen Representative

Jane Goodman   Executive Director, Cuyahoga River Community Planning Organization

Jeff Johnson   Councilman, Ward 8, City of Cleveland

Stacey Polk   At-Large Citizen Representative

Geri Unger   Director of Education, Cleveland Botanical Garden  

Betsy Yingling   Manager of Watershed Technical Support, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD)

Partnership Outreach Committee

The Outreach Committee encourages and facilitates watershed education and partnership opportunities to civic groups, school organizations, churches and individuals. Members help organize and carry out community outreach and fundraising events. They also assist with planning and implementation of watershed-wide programs, such as lawn care certification, sewer stencilling and volunteer stream monitoring.