Eric Rollings

Founder/Chairperson

Founder and President of the Foundation for Florida Environmental Protection:  Eric Rollings has lives a life full of eco-advocacy and supports elected officials who are dedicated to advancing conservation efforts across the State of Florida. He currently serves on the Sustainability Advisory Board for Congressman Darren Soto and also serves as the Conservation Advisor for the Orange County Green Place Program to fund and purchase more conservation land throughout Central Florida. 

Lee Perry

Vice Chairperson
​Lee was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts of Native American, African American and Puerto Rican Descent. She comes from a long line of environmental advocates and is a known climate activist here in Central Florida. She has worked in conservation, nonprofit management, Orange County local government and State-wide candidate as well as issue-based campaigns. She is dedicated to speaking up for the voiceless wildlife that are subjected to destructive development and sustainability + resilience throughout the region. 

Christine Bramuchi

Secretary
Christine is proud to be a founding member of the Foundation board. She co-founded and is employed by the Alliance for Public Schools, a non-profit organization that engages the community to support and advocate for Florida’s public schools and the children who attend them. She has been recognized for her advocacy including OCPS Volunteer of the Year and runner-up with her partners for Orlando Sentinel’s Central Floridian of the Year. She currently serves as the 1st Vice President for the League of Women Voters of Orange County, FL and brings her experience managing non-profit organizations and her ability to advocate for common causes with diverse stakeholders to the Board.

Laura Betts

Board Member​

Laura is a passionate and highly driven Sustainable and Environmental Leader with more than 20 years’ experience advocating for a sustainable and livable planet, within the corporate, non-profit and public sector. A global-minded leader with the ability that inspires behavioral change within the corporate setting and builds strong coalitions around key environmental issues. Subject matter expertise on climate change solutions, sustainability, events, non-profit organizing, campaign building, municipal planning, adaption/resiliency, and hazardous mitigation. Experienced consultant on sustainability measures and reporting including LEED, energy, waste, and water analysis. Experienced in planning green sustainable events for the US Green Business Chamber. Presenter, public speaker and mentor on Climate Crisis and Climate Justice.

Stacy Bursuk ​

Board Member

A product of Nickelodeon's Big Help and other campaigns to get kids involved, Stacy started an informal environmental group at her elementary school and worked on influencing the choices her parents made towards more responsible ends. She stayed interested, integrating the new things she learned into her lifestyle and in college, started doing cleanups with Students for a Greener Earth and Great American Cleanup. After finishing a master's degree in human nutrition and moving to Central Florida, she got involved doing kayak cleanups with Eco-Action and then Central Florida RECON as well as Keep Orlando Beautiful. This involvement introduced her to people who continue to teach her new ideas and model ways to take action. Stacy continues to participate, support several eco-minded groups and campaigns, and is proud to have been asked to serve with FFEP and find new ways to spread the message and increase collaboration.

Jairo Rodriguez

Treasurer
​Jairo, aka “JR”, is a Professional Engineer with a B.S. in Civil Engineering who specializes in Water Resources and Environmental Infrastructure Projects. He is originally from Colombia and has lived in Florida for more than twenty years. He has served as a political consultant and helped writing legislation to provide safety for Florida’s transportation projects and infrastructure. He also serves as a Treasurer for the American Society of Civil Engineers Board, EWRI in the Central Florida Chapter. Some of his interests are to provide consultation advise and volunteer for many Ecological and Environmental sensitive subjects. He also enjoys developing the youth in many social and environmental aspects. During his time as member of the FFEP, JR has provided advice to implement low impact development measures for projects within Orlando and -Seminole counties, he has helped the organization achieve key environmental policy changes in local communities and statewide.

Advisory Board

​Katrina Shadix

Board Adviser
Katrina Shadix is an Eco-Warrior and the leader of the Stop the Starve Campaign. She started her career in animal rights advocacy during the 2020 Bear Hunting Season where she successfully organized a campaign to stop the hunt of the Florida Black Bear. This Anti-Bear Poaching Bill was successfully passed in 2020 and was signed into law. Now her efforts are pivoting to the nutrient pollution crisis in the Indian River Lagoon where she is pressing legislators to expand the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission’s feeding program for manatees.

She has been lobbying and advocating for an extensive manatee feeding program up in Tallahassee as well as speaking at local county commission meetings to stop nutrient/chemical pollution for two years since the first unusual mortality event took place. Now, in the eleventh hour of another high mortality season, she developed the Stop the Starve campaign to beg policymakers to stop spraying invasives and mechanically harvest hydrilla and water hyacinth to add these nutrient-rich plants into the FWC  unsuccessful feeding program currently using romaine lettuce.
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In addition to being the Executive Director of Bear Warriors United, she serves on several boards including The Foundation for Florida Environmental Protection, The Central Florida Expressway Environmental Advisory Group, serving also as the Chair of the Environmental Advisory Board for Seminole County and the President of Sustainability Leaders Initiative.”

Pete Clarke

Board Adviser
Growing up in a military family, Pete traveled a great deal, living in Seattle, Alabama, Germany, France, rural Northwest Florida and ultimately settling in Orlando. A graduate of Boone High School, he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Marine Biology from the University of West Florida, and Master’s degrees in Education and Public Health from Florida State University and in Management from Rollins College Crummer School of Business. He further completed extensive coursework through the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and FEMA Emergency Management/NIMS while also serving as a Medical Services Corps Officer in the Florida Air  National Guard. His lifelong concern for residents, visitors and our environment has been clear in his early work for the State of Florida at the Orange County Health Department and later as Deputy Director for Orange County government’s Health and Family Services Department. Those pursuits provided him the opportunity to address crucial issues locally and state-wide, including disaster management, environmental protection, animal and human services and health care at multiple levels both within the public and private sectors. His leadership in
the development and implementation of programs such as the Victim Service Center, Central Receiving Center, preservation programs in 1994 which protected the Split Oak Forrest, Ryan White Planning Council, Sexual Assault Treatment Center, and the Juvenile Assessment Center is unparalleled. Serving on countless local and state-wide Boards, he later was elected twice to serve as Orange County’s District 3 County Commissioner. 

Pamela Saffran

Board Adviser
Pamela Saffran is a Mental Health Counselor, best selling author of the book Listening For Echoes, All-American tennis player and an environmental activist. She is a graduate of Skidmore College (B.A) and Rollins College Masters in Counseling Program (M.A). She has worked for Project III, Hospice of the Comforter, and was a co-facilitator in the Masters Program of Counseling at Rollins for 10 years. She has lived on Lake Virginia for 21 years and wants to make sure our incredible environment is preserved for many generations to come. 

She is a proud parent to 3 children Miles (Yale University, 2016), Nathaniel (Columbia University, 2018) and Ella Saffran, a rising freshman at Columbia University. She has served on Freedom Rides Board since 2019 and also serves on the board at Mead Gardens Board and New Hope For Kids, where she and her 3 children established the Dr Alan J Saffran Scholarship for students who have lost a parent/guardian and cannot afford to attend college and need financial assistance to do so. ​