The Eagle Haven Team
Our Board
Peter
President
Peter is a former corporate CEO and current business consultant, and is a Potomac River boater with great enthusiasm for the natural wonders so abundant along the Virginia shore.
Sharing those sights with his children, his grandchildren, and new young friends is a passion.
Mary Jay
Vice President
Mary Jay is a retired Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, a Community of Hope volunteer, an enthusiastic equestrienne and lover of outdoor exploration and discovery.
She and Peter are parents of three grown children, and have six grandchildren ranging in age from 3 to 20 years.
Nancy
Treasurer
Nancy owns and leads several businesses, is a leader of nonprofits, and is an attorney.
Additionally, she is both parent and grandparent, a nature educator, a professor, and an author.
Matt
Board Member
Matt is an executive in military engineering contracting serving world markets. He is also an award winning competitive sailor and a nature educator.
Patrick
Board Member
Patrick is a lifelong sailor on the Potomac and provides Strategic Communications support for the U. S. Navy. He is a parent to one son in Loudoun County public schools, an athletic coach, and a nature educator.
Our Volunteers
Chip
Chip is one of the early inspirations for creating Eagle Haven. He has acted as a nature educator his entire adult career with more than 20 years of service as the Belle Haven Marina dockmaster and sailing instructor.
He now owns and operates his own business serving as captain to boat owners as well as offering complex boat designs, engineering, and repairs. He and his wife are parents to a grown son and daughter who have loved living on or near the water. Chip is an overall nature magnet for creatures and people alike.
Rodney
Rodney spends as much time as possible forest bathing. He served as a policy advisor in Congress and with organizations that shape public policy, especially public education.
Now a landscape photographer, he created the first Huntley Meadows park pictorial. He and his wife Candace, a former Child Protective Services social worker, are encouraged by our youth and their boundless love of nature.
Marilyn
Marilyn teaches physics to seniors at a local private school, is recently retired from a high level tech role in the FBI, is mother to a teenage daughter who has attended both public and private schools, and is an infectiously enthusiastic nature educator.
Jake
Jake is a retired Navy officer and a devoted gardener and nature expert. He is also father and grandfather to several nature lovers, and husband to wife Kenwyn, a retired school administrator from the Arlington, VA school district who has herself been a generous volunteer in Eagle Haven development.
Margot
Margot is a Human Resources executive and has served many years as a Girl Scout troop leader (her son recently graduated as an Eagle Scout). She is also mother to a teenaged daughter in the Fairfax County school system, and is a veteran nature educator.
Jenny
Jenny is a Fairfax County Elementary School Advanced Academics Resource teacher. She is also a professional photographer and a masters swimmer. Jenny and her husband and family of three boys have always had a love for the outdoors.
“It is clear that [the students] begin to feel
empowered as they recognize the important role they themselves can play in protection of
such an inspiring resource.”
Marilyn
Eagle Haven Volunteer