Team Members

 Pamela Campbell

Pamela Campbell

Chief Executive Officer

A lifelong interest in sustainability and the environment led Pam to ISI. She joined ISI in the summer of 2013. First as a client, and then a volunteer, one thing led to another and in January 2014, Pam became Project Director for ISI. Three years on, following the death of ISI founder, Loren Cole, Pam became Chief Executive Officer for ISI. She holds a BA in Political Science, UC Berkeley, and a Master’s degree in Public Administration, University of San Francisco. Pam lives, draws and paints in Santa Rosa, with her cat, Bochy, in an intentional housing cooperative.

Jenna Svobodova

Jenna Svobodova

Business Program Manager

Jenna (real name: Jirina) joined the ISI team in April 2016. Jenna brings plenty of Quickbooks and computer experience with her to ISI, along with all-around excellence when it comes to teamwork and attitude. Mother to two young boys, Jenna stays busy with hockey and swimming, helping her husband with their solar company, and being an all around great Mom. Jenna hails from the Czech Republic, coming to the states for college twenty years ago. She holds a Masters Degree in Economics and Finance from The University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic, and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Coastal Carolina University, South Carolina.

 Claudia Meglin

Claudia Meglin

Special Projects Manager

Claudia joined ISI in summer of 2017, as our Special Projects Manager and all-around organizational development specialist. Claudia has over twenty years experience as executive team manager and creative director for many international projects. Her calling in life is to bring together creativity and business to design sustainable and regenerative systems. She holds an Integral MBA in Creative Enterprises for Social Transformation from Meridian University and is currently pursuing her Ph.d. She lives and works with her artist husband and her pets in rural Nevada City.

Mallory Clay-Harrigan

Mallory Clay-Harrigan

Manager of Project Services

Mallory joined the ISI team in December of 2019. She is a California native and long-time Bay Area resident, and has lived in Marin, San Francisco, and currently calls San Jose home. Having worked in customer service and support in high-end retail, publishing, and e-commerce, she brings a wide variety of skills to the ISI team. She has an AA degree from College of Marin in Liberal Arts and Sciences, a BA degree from University of California, Davis in Art History, and is a licensed cosmetologist. Mallory can usually be found exploring hiking trails with her husband, cooking up a storm in the kitchen for friends and family, or with her nose buried in a book.

Cheryl Roycroft

Cheryl Roycroft

Human Resources Manager

Cheryl joined ISI in the fall of 2021 taking the lead on all things HR!  Cheryl brings many years of HR experience with as she spent several decades working in the corporate sector in HR. Cheryl was ready to jump back into the HR world after taking a few years off and relocating to North Carolina with her husband.  Cheryl holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Central Florida in Business and she earned her Bachelor’s Degree from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  Cheryl has 2 grown step-daughters and 2 grandchildren along with 2 chocolate lab pups.  Cheryl is a distance runner and has run numerous Marathons including Boston, New York and Chicago several times. In addition to her love of running she enjoys the outdoors and her and her husband enjoy traveling the country in their RV.

Jacquie Elledge

Jacquie Elledge

Operations Manager

Jacquie (she/her) joined the ISI team in September of 2022. She comes to us with 10+ years of supervisory and operations experience in corporate retail. In 2016, she was recruited to operations in the nonprofit sector. There she supported development, while spearheading finance, logistics, and events. In addition to her professional career, Jacquie is also a successful fiber artist and craftivist. Specializing in custom hand embroidery, her work ecompasses pop culture, politics, and social justice themes. Originally from Western New York, she currently resides in Santa Rosa with her husband and their pets. In her free time, she enjoys reading, films, and juggling many creative hobbies. 

Jamie Boling

Jamie Boling

Accounting Manager

Jamie Boling (she/her) joyfully joined ISI in August 2023 as Accounting Manager. Jamie brings diverse skills from her work as a co-founder of a cannabis justice nonprofit and from her experience as a finance and accounting consultant for small business and nonprofit founders. Jamie received a Bachelor’s of Science in Communications with a minor in Business Administration from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville. Her familial roots are in the mountains of Appalachian East Tennessee where she grew up. Today, Jamie is a mom to one sweet kiddo in Santa Rosa, CA, where she has been based since 2011. Outside of ISI, you might find her sipping herbal tea, visiting the mountains or the sea for a hike, or admiring the stars on a clear night.

Board Members

 Pamela Campbell

Pamela Campbell

Chief Executive Officer

A lifelong interest in sustainability and the environment led Pam to ISI. She joined ISI in the summer of 2013. First as a client, and then a volunteer, one thing led to another and in January 2014, Pam became Project Director for ISI. Three years on, following the death of ISI founder, Loren Cole, Pam became Chief Executive Officer for ISI. She holds a BA in Political Science, UC Berkeley, and a Master’s degree in Public Administration, University of San Francisco. Pam lives, draws and paints in Santa Rosa, with her cat named Abigail, in an intentional housing cooperative.

Gil Friend

Gil Friend

Board Member

President and Chief Executive Officer of Natural Logic.

A systems ecologist and business strategist with nearly 40 years experience in business, communications, and environmental innovation, Gil Friend combines broad business experience with unique content experience spanning strategy, systems ecology, economic development, management cybernetics, and public policy. Tomorrow magazine called him “One of the country’s leading environmental management consultants—a real expert who combines theoretical sophistication with hands-on, in-the-trenches know-how.”

Gil was a founding board member of the Sustainable Business Alliance, Sustainable Berkeley, and the California Sustainable Business Council. He serves on the boards of directors of Open Data Registry, Inc. and Environmental Building Network, the executive board of OpenEco.org and the advisory boards of CleanFish, WattBot, Green World Campaign, and (past) San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Clean Tech Advisory Council (and has been named one of the Bay Area’s top 25 movers & shakers in cleantech). Gil also founder and Executive Director of Foundation for the Arts of Peace, and was cofounder and co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a leading urban ecology and economic development “think-and-do tank,” where he pioneered the current “green roof” trend more than 35 years ago.

Constance Grauds

Constance Grauds

Board Secretary & Member

Director & Founder, Spirited Medicine Alliance, Living Shaman Museum

Connie Grauds joined the ISI Board of Directors in 2009. Connie serves as President of the Association of Natural Medicine Pharmacists; Adjunct Faculty, University of Minnesota, Center for Spirituality and Healing; and as Advisory Board member, Integral Health, California Institute of Integral Studies.

Connie holds a Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Public Administration, emphasis on ethical business of transformational social change. Her projects, The Center for Spirited Medicine, and The Spirited Medicine Alliance, work to preserve the rainforest’s medicinal plants and indigenous healing practices. Connie is also founder of The Living Shaman Museum, which is devoted to keeping shamanism relevant in the modern world. She has completed eighteen years of shamanic apprenticeship with don Antonio Montero Pisco in the Amazon, and was appointed to carry on his ancient Cocama shamanic teachings and healing practices.

Kirk Marckwald

Kirk Marckwald

Board Member

Kirk is the Founder of CEA and has been at the helm as a Principal since 1984. His deep experience in energy and environmental regulation provides the foundation for CEA’s work with a variety of private and public sector clients. Prior to establishing CEA in 1984, Kirk was the Under Secretary of California’s Natural Resources Agency and served as the Director of the Office of Appropriate Technology. He also held various positions at the U.S. Department of the Interior. At California’s Natural Resources Agency, Kirk was responsible for managing budget and policy initiatives of the agency’s nine departments. He resolved policy conflicts among departments, cabinet officers, legislators, companies, and private citizens. Later, he worked as a consultant with the Environmental Defense Fund to help implement programs in energy, water, and hazardous materials.

Kirk has led large-scale regulatory reform and strategic planning projects for major manufacturing and transportation companies as well as for trade associations and nonprofits. He has represented individual clients and trade associations before legislative and regulatory agencies in California and Washington, D.C. In July 1999, Governor Davis appointed Kirk as a public member of the California Board of Forestry, where he served as the Vice-Chair of the Board until 2007. Kirk currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and on the Boards of the Pacific Forest Trust, the Blue Mountain Center and the Point Reyes National Seashore Association.

Kirk has a master’s degree in Natural Resources Policy and Management from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College. While Kirk has a passion for travel to places far and near, many of his fondest times are spent enjoying the wonders of the Tomales Bay region, by foot, sail or oar.

Founder

S. Loren Cole

Founder of Inquiring Systems, Inc.

Dr. Cole founded ISI in 1978, to provide ethical and sustainable ecosystem management services to nonprofit organizations, community-based projects, and value-driven for-profit entities. Cole holds the first PhD awarded by UC Berkeley in the field of Ecosystomology.

For over thirty-seven years ISI has provided ethical business consulting services, and development & resilience management services for both nonprofit and for-profit business enterprises. As a key element of ISI Development & Resilience Services, and ISI’s overall systemic approach to management, Dr. Cole has stepped into the roles of President, CEO, COO, Controller, Business Manager and Director, for 37 organizations and corporations over the years.

Dr. Cole is the founder of the Environmental Program within the Conservation and Resource Studies Program, U.C. Berkeley. Winner of many awards and commendations, Dr. Cole is a keynote speaker & guest on radio and television. He has published numerous articles and papers related to his areas of expertise.

Founding Board Members

C. WEST CHURCHMAN, PH.D.,

Past Chairman Emeritus

Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, California (deceased)

ARNOLD M. SCHULTZ, PH.D.,

Past Chairman Emeritus

Emeritus, Conservation & Resource Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley, CA (deceased)