Category: TNB2018

Sarah Anderson

Sarah Lillie Anderson is the Founder & CEO of Lillie Leaf Solutions, LLC, a consulting firm which delivers professional services to those working with natural resources in urban areas. Throughout her career, Sarah has specialized in professional development for urban greening professionals. She has channeled her passion for supporting urban parks and forestry practitioners via recent Lillie Leaf projects, including delivering the conference program for the Greater & Greener 2017 International Urban Parks Conference and hosting the first ever Trees for All: Chesapeake Regional Environmental Justice Workshop.

Sarah serves as Vice Chair for the Chesapeake Bay Program Diversity Workgroup, and Chairs the Audubon Naturalist Society Membership Committee. She is active as a community volunteer, speaker, and mentor. Sarah has her Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Bowie State University and a dual Undergraduate degree in Urban and Environmental Studies with a certificate in Geographic Information Systems from the University of Pittsburgh.

Fred Tutman

Fred Tutman is a grassroots community advocate for clean water in Maryland’s longest and deepest intrastate waterway. He holds the title of Patuxent Riverkeeper, an organization that he founded in 2004. He is among the longest-serving riverkeepers in the Chesapeake region and the only African-American riverkeeper in the United States.

Fred also lives and works on an active farm located near the Patuxent that has been his family’s ancestral home for nearly a century. Prior to riverkeeping, he spent nearly three decades as a media producer and consultant on telecommunications assignments across the globe, including a long stint working with and advising traditional healers in West Africa and covering the Falklands conflict in Argentina for the BBC.

After a late-life sojourn into law school, Fred now teaches an adjunct course in Environmental Law and Policy at historic St. Mary’s College of MD. When not exploring the Patuxent River by kayak, he performs trail maintenance on the Appalachian TraiI, farms and blacksmiths in his spare time. 

Fred also serves on a variety of Boards, Task Forces and Commissions related to the work of protecting the Patuxent and the natural environment. Among them, Fred serves on the Board of the Environmental Integrity Project, as a Governor appointed Commissioner on the State’s Patuxent River Commission and on the Board of Waterkeeper Alliance, the international group that licenses Waterkeepers. He is the recipient of numerous regional and state awards for his various environmental works on behalf of communities.