Board

Dominique Werboff, President
Dominique Werboff is the Director of Arboriculture at Coastal Carolina University, a Senior Associate Scientist with the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)-Philippines, and the Vice President and a Co-Founder of the Restoration Initiative for Sustainable Ecosystems (RISE), a Philippines organization that works on restoring forests, rehabilitating degraded landscapes, and improving human well-being. She has fifteen years of experience working on forest conservation and restoration, agriculture, and rural livelihoods in the Philippines. She is also a member of the Advisory Committee of EcoLogic Development Fund, and the Editorial Board of the Climate, Disaster and Development Journal. Dominique received her Ph.D. in Geography from Clark University, a Permaculture Design Certificate from the Cabiokid Foundation, and a Rainforestation Trainer Certificate from the Yale Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative & Visayas State University.

Daniel Rossi-Keen, Vice President
Daniel Rossi-Keen, PhD, is the Executive Director of RiverWise, a Beaver County, PA network of nonprofits working to establish a regional identity around the rivers of Beaver County. Daniel is committed to intersectional and sustainable community development practices, believing that an undue focus on any single element of a broader system creates inevitable inequities. Daniel lives in Aliquippa, PA with his wife and 4 children.

David Neidel, Secretary
David Neidel is the Global Strategy Advisor for Yale University’s Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI), a training program that builds local capacity to implement tropical forest conservation and restoration. David lived in Southeast Asia for 18 years and currently oversees ELTI’s field programs in Brazil, Panama, Indonesia, and Rwanda. David earned a PhD from the joint program in Forestry & Environmental Studies and Anthropology at Yale University. He currently lives in Portugal but is originally from Mechanicsburg, PA, and has strong family ties to northwestern PA, particularly Clarion and Venango Counties.

Deniz Tuncer, Treasurer
Deniz Tuncer is an international businesswoman with a number of different interests. As a co-owner of The Green Olive Branch, a 250-acre olive oil ranch in Northern California, she recently helped plant 150,000 trees. She is also vice chair of the Aegean Free Zone located in Izmir, Turkey. In addition, Deniz has a background in conservation and nonprofits, having served as board president of a number of nonprofit organizations. Deniz lives in Sacramento, California, known as the “City of Trees,” and enjoys spending time in nature. She has a BA in Anthropology and Mathematics and an executive MBA from UC Berkeley.
Staff

Jeffrey Karwoski, Founder and Executive Director
Jeffrey Karwoski is a certified arborist with a longstanding history of helping people connect with trees. His experience with tree-related post-disaster recovery work across the United States eventually led him abroad to the Philippines, where he volunteered to help communities on Leyte Island who had been hit in 2013 by Super Typhoon Yolanda (known globally as Haiyan). For the past eight years, he has led the Leyte Reforestation Project in an effort to develop their internationally accredited forestry nursery and design climate resilient planting techniques to protect people and enrich the planet. Reforest Our Future is Jeffrey’s latest endeavor, through which he inspires people to share his love for trees.

Audrey Bodenlos, Nursery Manager and Educator
Audrey Bodenlos has been a gardener by trade for the past six years and in that time has gained a great appreciation for native trees and plants. She hopes to share that appreciation with as many people as possible! There is little else she loves in this world more than plants (and her cats). She has a B.S. in Biology with a minor in Botany from Chatham University.