Who We Are

Karin Bergener, M.S., J.D., PMP, is an attorney and business person from Northeast Ohio. She has worked as a therapist, mediator, arbitrator, lawyer, and now information technology contract manager. She raises chickens and ducks and owns a horse.

Randy Givens is an activist with a B.S. degree in Landscape Architecture and a M.A. degree in Sociology. He retired from the U.S. Army, as a Colonel, in 1994. He ran his own Landscape Architecture business for eight years. He raised grapefruit and served on the Board of an Irrigation District for almost nine years. Activist work included property rights issues, and helping protect agriculture from federal programs, and theft of precious irrigation water by Mexico. He now teaches U.S. Government, part-time, at a local college. His acreage, in Texas, hosts a horse, many dogs and cats, and a couple of cows.

Judith McGeary is an attorney in Austin, Texas. She has a B.S. in Biology from Stanford University and a J.D. with high honors from The University of Texas at Austin. She began her legal career by clerking for the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Since then, her practice has focused on environmental law, commercial litigation, and appeals. She and her husband also run a small organic farm, with horses, cow, sheep, and poultry, based on the principles of holistic resource management.

Meritt Lamb is editor of the eco•logic Powerhouse, a monthly magazine published by the Environmental Conservation Organization in which he also serves on their Board of Directors as Executive Vice President. He ran his own Landscape and Irrigation business for six years. He lives with his wife Karen on 60 acres that has been home to numerous chickens, turkeys, dogs and a bull named Willie.