The Loma Prietan
February 2001
New Members of the Loma Prieta Executive Committee
New to Excomm
Peter Drekmeier, Fadi Saba, Leslie Weise, Jon Blackner, Joe Cernac (Guadalupe Group rep.)
Peter Drekmeier
Peter Drekmeier is a co-director of Bay Area Action and Peninsula Conservation Center Foundation.
He is also Director of the Stanford Open Space Alliance, a group that lobbies for permanent protection of
the Stanford foothills. Having grown up in Palo Alto, Peter is familiar
with local environmental issues and has worked on projects such as the Devil’s Slide Tunnel Campaign and the Citizens’ Sand Hill Initiative.
Leslie Weise
Leslie Weise is a resident of San Carlos and an avid outdoorsperson. She has been practicing as a corporate attorney for the past eight years.
She has lived in Northern California and been a member of the Sierra Club for six years since having moved here from the east coast. Since last year she has volunteered as Legal Chair for the Loma Prieta chapter.
Fadi Saba
Fadi Saba has a BA and MA in political science. His interest in the environment began when he joined the cross country running team in middle school, running throughout the hills of Santa Teresa County Park. He noticed that the golf course at the base of the hill was an eyesore next to the natural beauty. After college, he returned to San Jose where he soon sued the City over a luxury home and golf course development on 575 acres of serpentine grassland. He has since served as chair of the Santa Clara County Greenbelt Coalition, member
of the board of the Santa Clara County League of Conservation Voters, the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, and the County Parks Commission. He is also on the KPFA local advisory board, chairs the NAACP-San Jose’s Environmental Justice Committee, and is a founding member of the National Coalition for the Protection of Political Freedoms (NCPPF).
Jon Blackner
Jon Blackner joined the Sierra Club three years ago after moving to Sunnyvale from San Francisco, where he had lived for many years. He became a hike leader with the GLS section and began working on the Conservation Committee. After attending the Club’s activist training weekend he became interested in working on specific issues like Coyote Valley and now looks forward to serving the chapter on the Executive Committee.
Joe Cernac
Joe Cernac’s personal statement:
"The natural world brings beauty to us. We only need to accept it on its own, even without understanding ourselves. It’s a magnet for our personal search."