Hub Staff & Board Members

Staff

Program Manager

Rachel Ranelli

Rachel is a 2023 graduate of Franklin Pierce University, with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science, graduating with honors and a Sustainability Certificate. Her experience includes internships with the Institute for Climate Action, the Harris Center for Conservation Education, and a 2023 Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Climate Action Plan for Franklin Pierce University. Rachel will bring a wide range of talents and passions to the Hub.

Board Members

Dori Drachman

Chair

Dori Drachman

Dori spent most of her career as an educator. She founded a school that organizes its curriculum around environmental education and was a classroom teacher for more than a decade. After earning her masters degree in environmental education from Antioch University New England, she worked as a teacher/naturalist for the Harris Center for Conservation Education. After years of taking kids into the woods with the goal of inspiring them to care for our planet, Dori decided that we actually couldn’t wait that long. So she helped re-start the Peterborough Energy Committee (PEC) and became its Chair. The PEC is a founding member of the Monadnock Energy Hub.

Matthew Myer Boulton

Vice Chair

Matthew Myer Boulton

Co-founder and creative director at SALT Project, an Emmy-winning film production company based in Keene, New Hampshire, Matthew Myer Boulton is an author, teacher, filmmaker, and proud papa of Jonah and Margaret.

A graduate of Northwestern University, Harvard Divinity School, and the University of Chicago Divinity School, he has served on the faculty of Harvard Divinity School and seminaries in New England and the Midwest. Much of his teaching and research focuses on the intersections of the sciences and the humanities, with an emphasis on ecology and sustainable forms of human life. He also co-coordinates the grassroots Clean Energy Team in Keene, New Hampshire.

 

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Amy McIntyre

Treasurer

Amy McIntyre

Amy is the Managing Director of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), and has been in that role since 2004. She holds a B.A. from Alma College (MI) and a M.Ed. in Counseling from UNH.  Amy has been a resident of Keene since 2001, and previously worked with the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture and the New England Center for Civic Life at Franklin Pierce University, and prior to that at the Children’s Museum of Portsmouth (now Children’s Museum of NH). She also served on the board of the Cheshire Children’s Museum from its founding in 2010 until 2019.

Catherine Owen Koning

Secretary

Catherine Owen Koning

Catherine Owen Koning is Professor of Environmental Science at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, NH, since 1993.   She received her B.A. in Biology and Environmental Studies from Bowdoin College, her M.S. in Ecology from the University of California at Davis, and her Ph.D. in Land Resources from the University of Wisconsin. Her interests are in wetland ecology, watershed management, conservation biology and sustainability.  She has served on the Board of the Wisconsin Wetlands Association, the NH Association of Wetland Scientists, the New England Chapter of the Society of Wetland Scientists and the Peterborough Conservation Commission.  Catherine has been active in campus sustainability efforts, and is a founding partner of the Franklin Pierce Climate Action Institute. She is excited to join the Hub and assist local groups in implementation of meaningful changes in response to the challenge of climate change. 
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Patsy Beffa-Negrini

Patsy Beffa-Negrini

Patsy lives in Nelson, holds a doctorate in nutritional sciences, and is a retired Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist who directed the Keene State College Dietetics Program and the Online Master of Public Health in Nutrition Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. After retiring, she led community power aggregation efforts in Nelson and currently participates in Nelson Clean Energy. She also enjoys maintaining websites for the NH Network for Environment, Energy, and Climate and their Plastics Working Group’s Ten Towns • Ten Actions Toolkit to rethink plastics.

When she isn’t reading, hiking, kayaking, or Nordic skiing, Patsy enjoys exploring the myriad links between personal health and the health of the Earth.

Peter Hansel

Peter D. Hansel

Peter received a BA from Princeton University with a major in Environmental Studies. He worked briefly for the Pennsylvania Environmental Council before joining a family owned manufacturing business, Filtrine Mfg. Co., in 1973.  After five years in California as a salesman for Filtrine, he moved back to Keene, NH in 1979 with his wife, Bridget, where they raised four children. He helped Filtrine become more energy efficient, most recently installing a wood chip boiler for heating and a 793 kWh solar array on its roof.  Peter recently retired as the President of Filtrine and continues to serve on its board.

Peter has served as a Keene City Councilor, Chairman of the Keene Conservation Commission, Chairman the Board of Directors of the Harris Center for Conservation Education and President of the Friends of Open Space in Keene. He also served on the board of Antioch University New England.  Peter is a member and past president of the Keene Rotary Club.  He also currently serves as Chair of Keene’s Energy and Climate Committee and the Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship and is on the board of the Greater Keene and Peterborough Chamber.

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Maria Finnegan

Maria Finnegan

Maria Finnegan is a National Field Manager with Moms Clean Air Force at the Environmental Defense Fund, where she manages local, state, and federal campaigns to ensure a safer future for all children. With a background in strategic communications and development, Maria returned to her home state of New Hampshire to focus her work on climate change and health—first with the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, and then as the Director of the Climate and Health Initiative for Caregivers and Kids (CHICKs) at NH Healthy Climate. She holds a degree in Journalism and Communications from the S.I. Newhouse School at Syracuse University and an expanded graduate certificate in Climate Change and Health from Yale University’s School of Public Health. Beyond her work with Moms Clean Air Force and the HUB, she is a member of the Executive Committee for the New Hampshire Public Radio Community Advisory Board, and volunteers locally. Maria is committed to creating a healthier future by advocating for clean energy solutions while also preserving New Hampshire’s natural beauty for future generations.

John Treat