Foundation News

At our February 2021 board meeting, we welcomed a new board member, Mark Walters! Mark Walters is a Research Associate at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine where he conducts translational research on brain cancer. He is a long-time Sierra Club volunteer and past chair of the Florida Chapter. He is a founding trustee of the Virginia Key Beach Park Trust, established by the City of Miami to protect the historic landmark. Located on a barrier island in Biscayne Bay, the park is a living record of the rich legacy of Black, Indigenous, and immigrant communities’ connection with southern Florida since the 1920s. Mark currently resides in Miami, FL. We look forward to his leadership in helping guide the Sierra Club Foundation’s work as the public charity fiscal sponsor of the Sierra Club’s charitable programs and grantor to partner organizations, expanding our networks and relationships as influencers to mobilize resources and action on climate change, and in stewarding the Foundation’s assets to lead the shift of trillions in capital toward environmental solutions, justice, and land/water/wildlife protection.