Joanne Douglas
Board Member
Joanne is an environmental educator and artist who works as the Watershed Interpretation Manager at Bartram’s Garden. Through mixed-media visuals and creative writing she investigates the complicated connections and relationships between humans, water, industry and influences on perceptions and definitions of space. Joanne holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and is working on a Master of Environmental Studies, also at the University of Pennsylvania.
Lynn Washington
Board Member
Lynn has a passion for encouraging people to read. As graphic Design Supervisor for the Free Library of Philadelphia, she created exhibits to attract new audiences. As founder and owner of the multicultural, Germantown-based bookstore “Books & Stuff,” she celebrated the power of reading stories about all races and cultures. In an October 2020 interview in Grid magazine, Lynn said, “Illiteracy traps people in a cycle of poverty. It limits your life choices. It’s difficult to achieve social mobility, to move up in your life….Libraries are important but the other important thing is children having their own books, their own reading material.” She’s hopeful that One Little Earth’s focus on providing books to underserved kids will help address this pressing problem.
Darcie Goldberg
Board Member
Darcie is a professional photographer with over 30 years of experience. She studied photography at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh before working for United Press International. After several years of freelance work and teaching black and white film and darkroom technique courses, she completed her Masters in the Creative Arts at Hahnemann University in Philadelphia. She was the Executive Director of the Chester County Art Association for 18 years. Inspired by recent trips to Cuba, Darcie is now pursuing documentary and street photography. She is an avid movie buff who believes that the arts will tell our story for generations to come.
Debra Wolf Goldstein, Esq.
One Little Earth, Founder & Board President
Debra has devoted her career to protecting nature, conserving land, and raising environmental awareness. After earning her B.A. from Brown University and J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, Debra worked an associate at a large Philadelphia law firm and served as regional advisor to the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources. There, she awarded hundreds of grants to nonprofits and government agencies to create parks and greenways and helped create the state’s first grant program for land trusts. After serving as general counsel at Heritage Conservancy, she started her own legal practice focusing exclusively on land conservation and environmental policy, representing landowners, nonprofit organizations, and government.
Debra served as vice president of the Fairmount Park Commission for over a decade, where she drafted the city’s first park protection ordinance and successfully led negotiations to save threatened green spaces and historic buildings. She also chaired the Land Use & Planning committee of Philadelphia's Commission on Parks & Recreation. Debra co-hosted the television show Greenworks for Pennsylvania, teaches courses and workshops on conservation law, and writes for numerous academic and popular publications on a wide variety of environmental topics. (Click here to see selected publications.)
In 2017, Debra co-founded the Philadelphia Environmental Film Festival, bringing hundreds of top-notch new shorts and feature films to the region during the festival’s 5-year run.
Debra is a judge for the prestigious Green Earth book awards, which selects the best environmental kids' books published each year. She also serves as Editor for a new line of nature-themed books, an exciting alliance between One Little Earth and indie publisher The Little Press.
She is on the Tinicum Conservancy board of trustees; WeConserve PA policy council; Natural Lands’ President’s Advisory Council; and Bridlewild Trails Association board, among others. Recently, Debra was presented with PennFuture's Lifetime Achievement in Conservation award.
A singer-songwriter whose songs have won top prizes in many national contests, Debra won the PA Parks & Forests Foundation President’s Choice Award for her song “People Have the Power,” which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the state’s Environmental Rights Amendment. Please visit DEBRAKIMWOLF.COM or SoundCloud to hear some of Debra's songs.
Debra is also a children's book author (under her maiden name Debra Kim Wolf). To learn about her debut picture book, A Family for Zoya: The True Story of an Endangered Cub (Platypus Media 2025) and other books that are coming soon, please visit DEBRAKIMWOLF.COM.
“Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!’”
—Robin Williams