2023 Executive Committee Candidates
for our Chapter and Groups
For Chapter ExCom:
Lawrence Moore
Lawrence Moore has been a lifelong Activist in the Progressive community for 40+ years. Born in Lancaster, SC, he graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in political science. He has previously headed up the Rainbow Push Coalition in South Carolina, was Political Director for SC Bernie 2016, Progressive Caucus Co-chair for SC Democratic Party, and was founder and former and Co-Chair of Our Revolution South Carolina. He resides in the midlands area and spends time with family.
Presently Director and Chair of Carolina for All, a 501(c)(3) organization in the state of South Carolina.
Laura Moses
Laura Moses has been a Sierra Club member for over 30 years. She is pleased to serve on the Lunz Group executive committee as publicity chair to organize and promote our activities and accomplishments. She is proud of the good work Sierra Club does and is inspired by those who care about our environment and want to protect it. Laura is active with other conservation groups such as South Carolina Native Plant Society, Charleston Green Drinks, Charleston Moves, and the Unitarian Green Sanctuary Committee, and enjoys biking, hiking, paddling and dancing in the low country.
I've been a member of the Robert Lunz Group ExCom since 1989. I belong to several other environmental organizations, and have done volunteer work with SCDNR setting oyster bags for shore stabilization, filing oyster bags, and planting spartina grass. I was born and raised in Charleston and have seen many changes, very few that have been positive, so I feel very strongly about preserving what we have left of the Lowcountry.
I am running for the position of Treasurer of the Charleston Sierra Club, Robert Lunz Group. I have been a member of Sierra Club since 2019. I am a chemist and work in environmental remediation. I am past retirement age, but I enjoy my job and feel the work is very important. I am not an accountant but have been treasurer for club groups in the past, and I prepare income tax returns for family and friends. I am divorced, have two sons and one precious granddaughter. I enjoy reading, politics, walking, kayaking and the beach.
Nina Fair
Nina lives in Charleston, SC, where she has been an ExCom member for Robert Lunz Group for the past 3 years. Nina is a retired architect who thrives on outdoor activities, dancing tango and exploring art. She also participates in many environmental and climate-related organizations and events.
Serving on this Committee has provided me with the opportunity to share ideas and work with a team of committed and passionate people. Education, participation, and passion are the tools required as we focus more on our rural areas. If selected, the values and passion shared by this team will enable more awareness of environmental issues and concerns in our Rural areas
Rural areas have unique challenges due to physical isolation, natural resources dependent economics and high poverty rates. Having lived in a Rural area my entire life, and currently serving as Chair of the SCDP Rural Caucus, I will continue to bring issues that affect rural areas, while continuing to share environmental awareness and speak boldly on issues deemed necessary for environmental issues especially regarding Rural areas.
Thank you for your consideration.
Eloise Fomby-Denson
Eloise worked for the Social Work Foundation Internship, Social Work Foundation Internship
South Carolina Department of Mental Health, Community Health ServicesSouth Carolina Department of Mental Health, Community Health ServicesAug 2009 - Present · 13 yrs 1 moAug 2009 - Present · 13 yrs 1 moColumbia, SC Columbia, SC
Duties: Maintained database for incarcerated inmates to track their discharge data, diagnosis, areas of return, and provided information to all centers within area’s catchment of pending release of individuals to their areas. Attended management, planning, treatment, board and medical meetings. Job shadowed with program managers to adults, children & adolescents outpatient treatment , long-term care, psychosocial rehabilitation services, community residential care facilities, toward local care and multicultural programs.
Joana Lagunes Arauz
I'm Joana, a current student at Benedict College majoring in environmental engineering with a minor in business. My emphasis is on public policy, particularly advocating for marginalized communities. I am eager to contribute to the committee and facilitate more significant involvement in Sierra Club missions for resilient individuals. Drawing from my perspective and skills gained through various internships, including as an Azul Rising Leader Fellow, my role as a research assistant at the University of South Carolina and Benedict, and my experience as a Harvard Public Policy Scholar, I aim to make a meaningful impact.
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Eunice Lehmacher
Eunice Lehmacher, a medical social worker and psychotherapist, works for two national firms that provide psychotherapy virtually (Included Health) and in local assisted livings (LifeSource). She volunteers for many organizations including the Shaw Center, NAACP, LWV, her church and neighborhood, the Alzheimer's Association, and the Clemson area Pledge to End Racism. Eunice and her family came to Clemson in 2002 when her husband Gerald, a former presenter at the Sierra Club, became a physics professor at Clemson University. Their two adult sons work in computer science and mathematics. The Lehmachers are proud that of the four working adults they use only one car, their other "cars" being bicycles.
Rosellen Aleguire has lived in or visited most states in the USA.
Earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Speech Pathology. Has worked as a public school and rehab facility speech pathologist for most of her life.
She has two grown children and is now retired and lives in South Carolina and has devoted much of her time to citizen advocacy, education, environmental issues, and spiritual growth.
The values of democracy, inclusion, and peace in the world are her biggest concerns.
Ken has been a member of Foothills Sierra Club since 2006 and joined the Executive Committee in 2020. He has been a speaker for local, national and international forums on environmental related topics since 1991. He welcomes continuing to work as a member of the Foothills Group ExCom during these next two years.
Ken was the first endowed professor of packaging science in the US (2nd worldwide) and now executive director of the Woodstock Institute for Science & the Humanities where he has been working to reduce food loss and waste worldwide since 1992. He holds a PhD in Food Science, is a Lifetime Certified Packaging Professional (LCPP) and Certified Food Scientist (CFS).
Ken was co-editor of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology, 2nd edition, and principle author of two Scientific Status Summaries (1991 & 2007) on packaging and the environment. The 2007 article is increasing in downloads and citations after 26 years from publication demonstrating an increasing interest in the environment. It remains the most downloaded article in the Journal of Food Science's 87 year history. He Initiated a conference in Washington, DC, 2001 on environmental impacts of packaging that resulted in a white paper "Food Packaging, Food Protection and the Environment", that was hand delivered to every member of congress. He was the US delegate at the International Symposium on Packaging. Economic Development & the Environment in 1992, at which delegates from developed countries were discussing what to do about packaging waste while delegates from less developed countries decried huge food waste due to lack of packaging. This led to Ken’s efforts ever since to utilize packaging and distribution technologies to reduce food loss and waste.
He was a founding member of City of Clemson Green Ribbon Committee in 2008, that was formed by and for Mayor Abernathy to advise him to make Clemson the Greenest College Town in America. He became Chair in 2010 until Mayor Abernathy’s passing in 2012.
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