Rob Dorinson

Rob Dorinson founded Evergreen Recycling in 1997 to provide recycling collection and processing services to the construction industry. As a long time advocate for resource conservation, Rob served as the presenting member of the Southern Nevada Recycling Advisory Committee and he continues to focus his efforts on increasing recycling in and helping promote sustainable economic development in the Green industry in southern Nevada. Dorinson was named by the Small Business Administration as the 2009 Business Person of the Year for the State of Nevada.

Recently, Evergreen Recycling was recognized by the US Environmental Protection Agency for an Environmental Service Award and named the Best Green Business by the Las Vegas Business Press. One of the highlights for Rob was Evergreen’s success in diverting 90% of the construction waste during the development phase of the MGM City Center Resort, an $8 billion LEED Gold project completed in 2008. In July 2010, Dorinson merged Evergreen Recycling with Republic Services, a nationwide, environmental services company. A native of San Francisco, Dorinson is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. He joined our board in 2010.

Kevin Cloud

Kevin Cloud is an educator and administrator who has worked quickly to become engaged in the issues that affect his new home in Nevada. Kevin was the founding chief executive officer of a private school in San Diego, California before coming here to begin a new educational outreach program for the Alexander Dawson Foundation. As Executive Director, he has built a program of direct educational services, advisory support, and curriculum development that serves students from over 80 schools in both Nevada and Colorado.

Through the Foundation, Kevin founded, Dawson Green, a youth organization that advocates for the removal of plastic water bottles in public schools. A native of Georgia, Kevin worked for the Carter Center, and on numerous political campaigns. He has a BA from Emory University, where he was a Davidson scholar, and an AM from Brown University, where he was a fellow at the Center for Teaching and Learning.

Stephen Stoney

Stephen Stoney moved to Nevada in 1963 and has lived in Las Vegas since 1967. Steve is intensely devoted to Nevada having worked, raised family, assisted with conservation/preservation issues, and traveled throughout all parts of our great state. He earned an engineering degree and master’s degree in business. He has worked tirelessly for decades to improve the quality of leadership within youth organizations; he is a leader in the professional facility management community; and has been an advocate for preserving cultural resource in Nevada and the desert southwest. He helped found, organize and lead three professional organizations in Nevada: Building Owners and Managers Association, the Nevada Professional Facility Managers Association, and the Nevada Chapter of International Facility Managers Association. He has served for three decades on the boards of these organizations and is still active in each.

He is currently the owner and President of Facility One Solutions, Inc., serving as a consultant to owners and managers of buildings, promoting effective and efficient operating practices. Steve is also an avid golfer, having played courses throughout the West. Steve has served on our board since 2009.

Kathleen Dickinson

Kathleen Dickinson came to Nevada from the Washington, D.C. area in October, 1986 and immediately became involved with numerous civic and progressive organizations, as well as serving as President of the Las Vegas chapter of the League of Women Voters. Kathleen is currently the Law Related Education Coordinator with the State Bar of Nevada. She is also an entrepreneur, starting Dynamic Impressions, a handwriting analysis and life coaching business in 1988. She moved to the Las Vegas area in November 1999. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from George Mason University, and has completed the American University Campaign Management Institute Program, as well as the Washington Representative Program at George Washington University. Kathleen lives in Las Vegas and believes in all levels and meanings of healthy environments. Kathleen has served on our board since 2009.

Elyssa Rosen

Elyssa Rosen specializes in strategic communications for conservation groups, and has designed and run successful national and regional issue and electoral campaigns since 1993. As a consultant to foundations and public interest organizations and an Officer with Pew Environment Group, Elyssa provides strategic communications planning, training, message development and media relations for winning policy reform efforts. Previously, she led a Sierra Club campaign to secure precedent-setting, permanent protection for the Headwaters rainforest through an accord among the U.S. Congress, the California Legislature and the Clinton administration. Elyssa founded Great Basin Mine Watch in 1994, a Western United States based mining policy group. She has provided coaching to non-governmental organizations in North, Central and South America and to activists across the West. Elyssa holds a B.S. in Journalism and an M.A. in Political Science, and has been a member of our board since 2007.