Candidate Statements
NJ Chapter Sierra Club members will be voting for volunteer leadership of the NJ Chapter and its regional Groups. All candidates were invited to submit statements for the elections. See below for the available statements.
Chapter Executive Committee Candidates
Kip Cherry
Seeking re-election to ExCom, with almost 50 years of experience in environmental, urban planning, and historic preservation issues, Kip is a licensed NJ professional planner and a certified member of AICP. She holds an MBA from the Wharton School. She tries to focus where she can be the most effective, most recently working on electric school bus legislation, offshore wind and community solar, and trying to save environmentally sensitive sites at Baldpate Mt., Mercer Corporate Park, Colts Neck Manor, and Monmouth Battlefield. She is Central Group’s conservation chair and is very active in the Warehouse, Conservation, Transportation, and Legislative Committees.
Stan Greberis
An NJ Chapter ExCom member and a Sierra Club Life Member, Stan also serves as ExCom member and conservation chair for the Jersey Shore Group and is on the group’s letter-writing committee. Stan is a past Jersey Shore Group Political Committee member and lead for endangered species. The retired VP of a 500,000 square-foot distribution center, he led energy savings, recycling, LED conversion, and hybrid truck purchase efforts. Stan educated employees on reducing their home environmental footprints. His house is solar powered. A current SCORE business mentor, he received the 2023 NJ Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award for Business Sustainability.
Denise Brush
Denise is the chair of the Offshore Wind Committee and vice chair of the West Jersey Group. She regularly attends Chapter Conservation Committee and ExCom meetings, where she has learned a great deal about the work of the Club in the past three years. Her interests include many areas of environmental and conservation advocacy, not just renewable energy. While she is new to the Sierra Club, she has done much volunteer work related to the environment and conservation with other organizations and served on many executive committees. She pledges to work hard for the NJ Chapter of the Sierra Club.
