Betsy Abeles Kravitz has enjoyed a long gratifying career in sales and marketing, focusing on delivering clients a rich, authentic, problem-solving-based relationship.

Betsy spent many years with the regional alternative news weekly, The Worcester Magazine, where she began as a sales novice and eventually became associate publisher. Along the way she sold at the famous San Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper and became publisher of the Hartford Advocate.

In 2004, Dan Kaplan, founder of New England Home and Betsy's mentor and first boss, tapped her once again to help launch the magazine. With a keen sense of timing and opportunity, the team grew the magazine, enjoying one of the nation's most successful magazine launches. Today, NE Home also publishes NE Home's Connecticut, serving Fairfield County CT, NE Home's Cape & Islands, and several digital products like the NE Home Online Design Center, and innovative Design Sherpa social networking turnkey services.

Betsy is a graduate of Ithaca College with a BFA in theater arts, passionately participates in community service, and has two incredible daughters and one very understanding husband.

 

Green Alliance Project Director Sarah Brown has been an environmental advocate in her community for the last 10 years. She has served on Kittery's Town Council and the Zoning Board of Appeals. Sarah created Kittery Progressive Action, a community action coalition that responds to and organizes around progressive issues in Kittery, southern Maine, and Portsmouth.

She also formed St. John's Stewardship of the Earth Committee in Portsmouth, a group that educates the Seacoast community on environmental issues. Brown spear-headed Cool Kittery, which convinced the Town Council to sign the Mayors' Agreement on Climate Change and then regrouped to become Kittery's current Energy Efficiency Committee - a town-sanctioned board that is now working to reduce Kittery's energy use and promote conservation in the schools and in the community.