B.Sc., A2A President, upper Canada Board Of Education.Consultant and Teacher

B.A., LLB., A2A Vice President, Environmental Writer Toronto Star

Chris Van der Vyver

George Boland

Margot Miller

Henry Lickers

Mohawk Council of Akwesasne: Director of the Department of the Environment

Dr. Robert O. Bailey

Brian Barkley

Richard Deering

James Dobson

Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority

Karen Fraser

Dave Hahn

Jean Langlois

Sara Jane O’Neill

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society: National President 

Stephanie Weiss

Sophie Borcoman, Communications and Client Services Manager, St. Lawrence Islands National Park has worked for Parks Canada since 1989 in Education and Outreach. She has also been lucky enough to have the opportunity to be involved in projects with the Costa Rican, Columbian and Chilean Parks Services and the Smithsonian in Panama.

Ken Buchan is a geophysicist and canoeist with a deep interest in conservation issues. He is a long-time board member and current chair of the Ottawa Valley Chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, as well as a trustee of the Quetico Foundation.

Emily Conger moved to the A2A area in 1970, and became keenly interested in conserving the area's wildlife. She has been working on environmental and sustainability issues since the 1970's, and has worked over the years with a variety of organizations. Emily retired in 2001 from a 31 year career in teaching and consulting for the Upper Canada Board of Education. She has been a director of A2A since 2001 and president since 2002. She raises organic food and enjoys cooking, riding, skating, swimming, canoeing, biking and hiking.

David McLaughlin is a 9th generation Ontario farmer who with his wife Mary and son Zachary have raised Ontario lamb for 20 years.Dave was a founding director on A2ACA and also on the first Board of Directors for the Frontenac Arch Biosphere. A member of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture for 23 years he has served as County Director, County President and Provincial Director for the Leeds County Federation of Agriculture. Dave is presently an Advisor to the Board of A2ACA.

Don Ross has had a varied career that includes working for 12 years as the Chief Park Naturalist at both Point Pelee and St. Lawrence Islands National Parks; nearly two decades as co-owner of a sporting goods store in Brockville; and currently as an author and free-lance writer for various woodworking and other magazines, as well as being Executive Director of the Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve.

Cameron Smith is retired but continues to write the Toronto Star's environmental column. He is a former managing editor for The Globe and Mail, and for 17 years was an associate member of the international Club of Rome.

Bill Stephenson is a Protected Areas Conservation Biologist. He retired from Parks Canada in 2005 and is now a Parks Canada 'Scientist Emeritis'. He is on the board of CPAWS-Wildlands League and CPAWS's national priorities committee as well as involved with the Park Research Forum-Ontario[PRFO] and other protected area initiatives. He was an originator of the A to A concept and has advised the Board since it's inception.

Sherri Watson worked in the environment field for over 25 years, primarily in policy and management for the federal government. She currently is the President of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society National Board of Trustees and serves as an advisor to the A2ACA.

Ian Whyte: Over the past few decades I've grown to love and appreciate all of the natural world. This love has caused me to work to defend the Earth, in all Her aspects. This is especially important to me in these troubled times.