Advisory council
Bennet Barrow • Dave Bass • Dick Batchelor • Linda Chapin • Jennifer Chase •
Douglas Elmore • Robert Freeman • Terry Hadley • Lee Hanna • Clay Henderson •
Heather Henson • Emily Kubica • Mark O. Howerton • Stephen Humphrey •
Ann McGregor • Leslie Poole • Bill Randolph • Eileen Schein • Bruce Stephenson
BENNET BARROW
Bennett Barrow is a Certified Financial Planner and Registered Investment Advisor for Barrow Investment Management in Tampa, Florida. He is a fifth generation Floridian who grew up fishing on the waters of Tampa Bay. He also helps operate a family cattle ranch in Hardee County, Florida. Bennet graduated from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He is married with two children.
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JENNIFER CHASE
Jennifer Chase is a musician, playwright and professor at Florida Community College who resides in Jacksonville. She is working on a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans.
Chase is the founder of Jacksonville Artists’ Night of Entertainment (j.a.n.e.), a non-proft organization that features concerts and silent art auctions to raise funding for child care scholarships to benefit children of single parents who work and attend school. For her work with j.a.n.e., Chase received the Women’s Leadership Award from the University of North Florida in 1998.
Chase has also received the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, which allowed her to travel to Senegal in west Africa where she participated in multiple humanitarian projects.
Chase wrote and performed “Welaka,” the theme song for In Marjorie’s Wake.
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ROBERT FREEMAN
Robert Freeman has served as counsel and legal advisor to local governments in connection with their capital project financing since 1978 and is currently with the firm Bryant Miller Olive. He is a graduate of Darlington School in Rome, GA, of Princeton University, where he majored in history, and of the University of Georgia School of Law, where he was an editor of the Georgia Law Review.
Robert is a communicant at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral and a member of the Rotary Club of Jacksonville and the San Marco Club. He is a past president of the Mental Health Association of Jacksonville, the University of Georgia Law School Council, and the Princeton Alumni Association of North Florida, a past Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gateway Community Services, Inc., and was a member of the Board of Trustees of Darlington School.
Robert is currently attending the Haden Institute in Flat Rock, NC, where he is studying to be a dream group facilitator. His principal interest is with the intersection of religious mysticism, Jungian studies, meditation and 12-Step programs.
Robert grew up in New Smyrna Beach. He enjoys boating, camping, canoeing, kayaking, bicycling, hiking, backpacking, walking and reading. He and his wife, Victoria, have two married sons and two grandchildren.
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TERRY HADLEY
Terry Hadley is a fourth generation native Floridian. He attended Winter Park High School and went on to the University of Florida where he earned his undergraduate degree in economics and a graduate degree in law.
After law school, Terry served four years in the Navy, including a tour in Vietnam. After the Navy, he worked as a prosecutor, heading up a felony division in the state attorney’s office in Orlando. Since that time, he has been in private practice, specializing in business law, real estate, banking, mergers and acquisitions.
Over the years, Terry has volunteered as a guardian ad litem for abused and neglected children, for which he has received several awards from the Orange County Bar and the Florida Bar. He has also been involved in the formation of several mitigation banks and a fund set aside in trust to preserve and protect that status.
It was during the filming of In Marjorie’s Wake that Terry first connected with Equinox when the crew stayed at his home on Cross Creek. The home is about four miles from his great- grandparents’ homestead farm, which Terry also still owns.
Terry says he loves the outdoors and fishing. He uses his airboat at Cross Creek to explore the wilderness and show his friends and grandchildren Florida as it used to be as thatparticular area is well preserved and natural.
Of his participation with Equinox, Terry says, “I connected with Equinox as a result of getting to know the folks doing In Marjorie’s Wake and was impressed with your stated mission. I believe Equinox does a first-class job of bringing the state of Florida alive from a unique perspective, and is helping to preserve some of the wonderful aspects of our state that are in danger of being lost in this modern era.”
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Lee Hanna
Lee Hanna is a retired Senior Bank Executive and former President and CEO of Barnett Bank Subsidiaries. He is also a founding Board Member of The North Florida Land Trust and active in several venture capital and real estate funds.
Lee was drawn to Equinox Documentaries after learning of Bill Belleville’s approach to land preservation and conservation. One of the first times Lee met Bill, Bill explained his feeling that legislation would always be inadequate to address conservation needs and that what was really needed was to make people aware of the beauty and value of natural Florida.
Lee, who retired from a twenty-year Barnett Bank career in 1995, had been introduced to Bill through Equinox Board member Leslie Poole. Lee had just read River of Lakes, Bill’s book about the St. John’s River, and was hooked. He, Leslie and Bill met at a fish camp south of Daytona and hatched the idea for Equinox Documentaries, Inc. in order to produce documentaries that would carry Bill’s message.
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Clay Henderson
Clay Henderson is an environmental consultant and is Chief Operating Officer of H&K Conservation Solutions LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Holland & Knight Consulting which specializes in private conservation services. He was admitted to practice law in the state of Florida in 1980. He received his BA degree from Stetson University and his JD from Cumberland Law School in Birmingham, Alabama.
Clay has long been associated with environmental policy in Florida. He is President Emeritus of Florida Audubon Society, served on the Constitution RevisionCommission and sponsored the Conservation Amendments which were ratified by the voters in 1998. He co-authored the Save Our Everglades constitutional amendments ratified in 1996. He developed the first county endangered lands acquisition program, helped launch Preservation 2000, and Florida Forever which are the nation’s premier conservation programs.
Clay's public service includes serving two terms on Volusia County Council. He has received gubernatorial appointments as Chairman of Florida Greenways Commission, Chairman of Florida Pollution Prevention Council, Florida Communities Trust, Property Rights Study Commission, Administrative Procedure Act Review Commission, Save the Manatee Committee and Constitution Revision Commission. Other public service includes the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council, Chairman of Volusia County Water Authority and Governor’s Council for a Sustainable Florida.
In the community, Clay currently serves on the board of directors of the Florida International Festival, Citizens for a Scenic Florida, Council for a Sustainable Florida and the Board of Advisors of the Trust for Public Land. He has served on the boards of Florida Audubon Society, Florida Trust for Historic Preservation, Florida Land Trust Association, and Save the Manatee Club. He has received numerous public service awards from groups including The Nature Conservancy, Florida Wildlife Federation, Sierra Club, Florida Audubon Society, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Stetson University, and League of Women Voters.
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Ann McGregor
Ann McGregor de-mystifies technology through her work as president of Radiant Life Productions, LLC, a computer consulting company. Ann’s unique blend of communications and technological skills merges with a deep knowledge of and appreciation for the environment to provide an opportunity to use technology in new and exciting ways.
Ann also has a life-long commitment to community service, with a special focus on the arts and outdoor/ fitness based groups. She has served on various boards of directors and led committees for many non-profit organizations. Her desire for continued education is quenched through her PhD level course work in Organic Process Psychology and Integrated Ecology.
Ann loves to make the complicated simple, by breaking things down into easily manageable pieces — whether it’s a networked computer system, a weekend Annual Meeting, a mountain bike tour or a meal for a film crew.
Her ideal day would find her in the forest, next to a running stream, sitting in the crook of a big tree with a good book — and maybe a wireless internet connection!
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Leslie Poole
Leslie Kemp Poole is a fulltime mother of two, freelance writer, student and teacher. She was a newspaper reporter with four different papers, ending with the Orlando Sentinel where she covered many topics including an award-winning series on the environment and growth management.
She continues to focus on freelance writing about environmental and community issues. Currently, she is an adjunct professor in the Environmental Studies Department at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL and is a PhD student in History at the University of Florida.
Leslie has been married for 25 years to Michael Poole, an investment banker, and she is active in several groups including the board of the Hamilton Holt School at Rollins College.
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Bill Randolph
Bill Randolph, CPSM, is the Director of Marketing and Operations for JCR Consulting a small Land Planning and Landscape Architecture firm based in Central Florida. He has spent the past 18 years of his career working for planning and engineering firms that provide services solely within the state of Florida. His prior experience encompasses eight years of active duty military service in the U.S. Air Force and a year with Rockwell International working on publications for aviation related programs.
At the community level, he is in his fourth term on the Lakes Advisory Board for the city of Maitland, Florida. Bill has also served on local and state boards for Florida Public Relations Association and the state board for the Florida Planning and Zoning Association.
As a volunteer he has worked on two major community redevelopment projects. Bill coordinated the creation of a master plan and the implementation process to improve the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey in Maitland, and he assisted in the development and implementation of a residential campus master plan, completed by JCR, for Great Oaks Village, a children's residential foster care facility in Orlando.
Bill holds a Bachelor's degree in Photojournalism and a Master of Arts degree in Business Management. He continues to hone his photography skills through freelance assignments. While serving on active duty, Bill won numerous photo awards for his images of military life.
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EILEEN SCHEIN
Eileen Schein is an award-winning producer and Community Outreach Specialist. She started in television and radio at the age of eight, appearing in local weekly series in her hometown of Cleveland.
Eileen’s career spans many years with the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). Her work includes Emmy award-winning PBS series as well as regional and local shows. Community projects are Eileen’s special interest. Eileen’s leisure time and work time have always been blurred because her work involving community engagement and production is also her passion.
A self-professed city girl at heart, Eileen’s leisure activities included walking on the beach and biking in the park. When she’s not working, you can find Eileen keeping up with four children and a husband, traveling, reading, cooking and bicycling.
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BRUCE STEPHENSON
Bruce Stephenson is Professor of Environmental and Growth Management Studies at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. He is the author of Visions of Eden: Environmentalism, Urban Planning, and City Building in St. Petersburg, Florida as well as numerous articles. His work can be accessed at flahum.org and on the Genius Preserve website.
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