Over the years, PBR has been host to a terrific team of talent. We greatly appreciate the contributions and support generously given to our programs and organization.
Eric N. (Rick) Archuletta, M.A., USN (Ret.)
Rick works in the Navy’s Facility Asset Management Program at Naval Station Everett. The Asset Management Program includes base development management comprising infrastructure planning, disposals, real property inventory management, geospatial information, and planning policy. His background includes over 15 years in planning and project management. Rick’s naval career began in 1977 and culminated in attaining the rank of Chief Petty Officer, capping a distinguished career that spanned over two decades.
Upon retiring from the Navy Rick worked for the Oregon State Library, Government Research and Electronic Services, providing research and reference services to State government agencies. He has also worked for the Army Corps of Engineers, Plan Formulations, working on water resource and habitat restoration projects.
Rick’s area of interest is in building community supported green programs (business/jobs) in rural and urban communities. His goal is to assist communities in reaching environmental and economic health while working to bring government agencies, businesses and individuals together. Rick earned his Bachelor’s degree from Linfield College in Social and Behavioral Science and completed his Master’s degree in Environment and Community at Antioch University Seattle.
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Bryan Baker, M.A.
Eighteen years of nonprofit leadership, community engagement and collaborative teamwork in the Puget Sound Region is the background Bryan brings to Pacific Bamboo Resources. The focus of his life has been on mission driven work with a common thread of personal, community and ecological stewardship. Bryan has worked extensively in the fields of urban forest and water resource management, transformative arts, youth leadership development, conservation service learning, and workforce training.
In every professional and volunteer role Bryan has served as a catalyst to build relationships, improve organizational systems and generate the tools and resources to implement successful community initiatives. He has worked extensively with government agencies, citizen groups, scientists, educators, social services, business and philanthropic leaders to design and deliver a wide range of successful programs. Bryan’s strengths include communicating with diverse audiences, facilitating strategic dialogue, leading teams to meet shared goals and growing collaborative partnerships.
Bryan earned Master of Arts from the Center for Creative change at Antioch University Seattle, in Whole Systems Design with a focus on community engagement and urban ecology. At the Evergreen State College, he built a concentration in social work, ecological economics and sustainable community systems.
Bryan is currently a program director at Northwest Center, in Seattle.
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Rod Crow, M.A.
Program Chair, Bamboo Agroforestry Guild (BAG)
Rod comes to PBR with ten years of experience in working with the US Forest Service, primarily as a field wildlife/fisheries biologist, but also has experience in forestry management. Rod is also familiar in dealing with various environmental policies, such as NEPA and the Endangered Species Act.
Rod received his B.S. in Natural Resource Management from Washington State University, and completed his M.A. in Environment and Community at Antioch University Seattle. He holds certifications in Ecological Planning and Design, Integrated Skills for Sustainable Change, and Permaculture Design.
Deirdre Duffy, CSBA, M.A.
As an ecological design scholar-practitioner, Deirdre brings more than 20 years experience in both the technical and adaptive aspects of sustainability to PBR, with a particular emphasis on systems integration and learning community praxis. In the course of her career, she has collaborated with a wide range of people in a variety of contexts, helping them envision and realize their dreams of a better world.
Her project experience includes community asset-inventory design, capital campaign fundraising, design charette facilitation, proposal writing/administration, passive solar design studies, residential/commercial green retrofits, low impact development/indoor environmental quality assessments, and sustainability education initiatives.
Deirdre holds two master’s degrees from the Center for Creative Change, Antioch University Seattle (Whole Systems Design/Organizational Psychology), is nationally certified as a Sustainable Building Advisor (CSBA), and currently serves on the faculty of the Industrial Technical Trades Program at Olympic College, Bremerton, Washington.
An award-winning writer and member of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE), Deirdre’s research/literary interests include group creativity, sustainability & the arts, the preservation of vernacular building methods, integrated passive solar design, and the psychology of the built environment. Her essays, features, and columns have appeared in a number of regional and national publications, including The Seattle Times, Kitsap Sun, Terrain.org, and Orion.
Elliott Krivenko, M.A.
Elliott brings market research and mapping skills to PBR. Elliott joined PBR with a research background, which includes experience in data collection, fieldwork, analysis and outreach. Since 2006, he has provided research for the Downtown Seattle Association (DSA) and Seattle’s Metropolitan Improvement District (MID). In 2007, he introduced Geographic Information Systems to these organizations and his mapping skills have been well received. Other services he provides for DSA and the MID include survey design, data analysis, management of data collection teams and conducting formal presentations.
In 2007, Elliott completed a Masters in Environment and Community at Antioch University Seattle where he focused his research on education and outreach related to connecting citizens to water quality issues. His graduate project involved an internship with the Washington State Department of Ecology assisting with public meetings and outreach at water festivals. He also holds a dual Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Arts from The Evergreen State College where he focused his studies on chemistry and environmental science including an undergraduate research project in wetland chemistry.
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Krystal Meiners, M.Arch.
Program Chair, Urban Asset Restoration
Krystal is a designer who comes to PBR with a diverse background in Fine Arts, Sustainable Architecture, Urban Design and Transit Planning. The bulk of her research has been on the preservation of place, culture and ecology in modern society through sustainable community development.
Growing up in New Orleans, Krystal was introduced to the arts early and attended a visual arts preparatory school which led to her enrollment at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. There she studied architecture and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts and her Master of Architecture in 2006. During her enrollment at SCAD, Krystal won several national and international student design competitions for her projects in sustainable architecture and industrial design and was recognized by the school, her peers, and the American Institute of Architects as an outstanding student. She received several awards and scholarships based on her academic performance.
Krystal is now a junior designer at a local Seattle architecture and urban planning firm that focuses on sustainable community building and transit planning. Her work in the firm includes research on the development of sustainable transit infrastructure as well as design guidelines for community development and smart growth. While her interest and expertise spans much of the built realm, Krystal is currently enrolled at Antioch for Ecological Planning and Design where she hopes to explore the interface between the built environment and sustainable landscapes to develop whole communities.
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Conor Rice, B.A.
Conor is a graduate of the University of Vermont, and relocated to the Seattle area in early Fall 2009.
He acquired his Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in Environmental Studies and English, and was fortunate enough to be a student of Dr. John Todd’s, a very well-known figure in the ecological design field. Dr. Todd was the winner of the Buckminster Fuller Institute’s Challenge Award 2008 for a proposal to restore the degraded soils of the Appalachain regions via what he calls “living machines,” a.k.a. closed-loop, self-sustaining systems of waste water filtration systems based on real-world ecological models.
In addition to graduating in May 2009, Conor also completed his senior Environmental Studies thesis project, titled “Uprooting Urban Decay,” centered around the concept of reclaiming abandoned urban property in the former mill-city of Lawrence, MA via the installation of publicly-accessible community gardens. Dr. Todd was one of the advisors for the project and helped Conor with the incorporation of ecological principles into his garden designs for the project.
Conor has come to the Northwest region eager to continue his exploration of the ways ecological design can help to benefit the larger human community but also natural ecosystem as a whole. He has high hopes to do so via his involvement with Pacific Bamboo Resources.
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Mark Rozema, M.F.A.
Mark brings an eclectic background to bear on his involvement with PBR. Following an early exposure to land management issues first as a commercial fisherman and then as a backcountry ranger and wildland firefighter for the Bureau of Land Management, Mark earned a Master’s degree of Fine Arts in writing and literature, preparing the way for a decade of teaching college.
After twelve years in academia, Mark returned to his first love—thinking about and relating to landscape—by pursuing a degree in restoration horticulture and working as a landscaper. To PBR, Mark contributes his experience as a writer, communicator and his growing knowledge of permaculture design, natural building, and food systems.
