About

Robin is a 21 year resident of New Canaan and a lifelong nutmegger, with the exception of a few years in both Boston and New York City. A graduate of Darien High School and Dickinson College with a career in finance before starting a family. An active volunteer, Robin is also a board member for New Canaan Beautification League, New Canaan League of Women Voters, a member of New Canaan Town Council and New Canaan Sustainable Team Leader. An avid gardener and composter who has been hard at work turning her property into a bird and pollinator paradise. On most weekends, Robin can be found hiking with her family and her dog Cookie.

Lynn and her family moved to New Canaan in 2003 after 8 years in London and Surrey, England, and 3 years in Darien. A graduate of Cornell University with a Masters in Nutrition Education from Columbia University Teachers College, she is a Registered Dietitian. Growing up in Croton-on-Hudson, NY, Lynn was influenced by the environmental activism of folk-singer Pete Seeger and his Clearwater organization’s efforts to clean up the Hudson River. As a member of BYO New Canaan, Lynn worked on the Plastic Bag Ban Ordinance passed in 2019. She is a Board member of the New Canaan League of Women Voters, a member of BYO CT, Sustainable Fairfield County and the Cornell University Council. A fitness enthusiast, Lynn enjoys swimming, running, biking, hiking and contemporary modern dance.

Peter has been a New Canaan resident since 1965. Peter and his wife Karen mow with a mulching electric mower, rake their own leaves, compost, have solar panels, and often walk the 1½ miles to Main and Elm. Peter has planted almost all the trees and bushes at his house. He grew up in Wilton CT, graduated from St. Luke’s School in New Canaan, Lafayette College, and Columbia Business School. He was publisher of Money magazine at Time Inc., taught Publishing and Public Speaking at Pace University, and has volunteered at the New Canaan Nature Center, and now with the New Canaan Beautification League.

Beth Sanford, a 23-year-resident of New Canaan, has spent her career as a marketing executive in the content media business, including HBO, AMC Networks and Lifetime Television. Beth is a partner in the New Canaan-based Hyphen3, a strategic-marketing consulting firm that she founded in 2006.​ A graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Business School, Beth raised three children in New Canaan, all of whom graduated from New Canaan High School. Beth is a long-time naturalist and environmentalist. She proudly participated as a student leader in the first Earth Day in 1970, attended NOLS as a teenager, and has been a skiing enthusiast, a sometimes birder, a perennial admirer of open space and protector of all things natural throughout her life.

Heather grew up in Arizona and found herself in various locations in California post college followed by a long stay in Illinois before moving to New Canaan in the Fall of 2016. Along the way, she noticed how each location handled waste management and approached topics such as composting, recycling, and climate change implications. She saw first hand how she could make a difference at her children’s first elementary school in Winnetka, IL. Pulling from that experience and finding other parents with similar concerns, Heather worked with a newly focused Green Team to increase awareness at South School pre-Covid. Heather hopes to continue to make a greater impact as a part of Planet New Canaan. An active volunteer, Heather has served on school boards from nursery school to her current role on the Saxe PTC and loves acting as co-leader for her daughter’s Girl Scout troop.

Christina Fagerstal grew up mainly in Southern California where she spent much time visiting the mountains and swimming in the Pacific Ocean. She developed a love of nature and animals at an early age. Since attending college in New England, Christina has lived mainly on the East Coast of the U.S. Christina and her husband have lived in New Canaan for over twenty years and have raised their three children in this community. While her husband commuted to New York City and traveled around the world, Christina volunteered in the public schools and with many other local organizations. Christina enjoys hiking with her dogs in the woods and planting native plants in her garden.

G. Warfield “Skip” Hobbs is a geologist, farmer and conservationist. He has been a resident of New Canaan since 1980, and is passionate about preservation of New Canaan’s open spaces and historic buildings, sustainability, and educating the public about the reality of climate change. Skip is a graduate of Yale College and the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London. He is the founder and managing partner of Ammonite Resources, an international geological consulting company. When not working on geological projects, Skip manages a family farm in Massachusetts where he raises grass-fed beef and organically grown vegetables and bees. Hobbs served as the president of the American Geosciences Institute, an organization that represents over 250,000 earth scientists in 52 professional societies; and currently serves as the Chair of the Government Affairs Committee of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents in Washington. Locally, Skip is a past president of the New Canaan Nature Center; served on the former town Tree Commission; is a board member of the New Canaan Preservation Alliance; served on the board of the Old Faithful Fire Company; and is the immediate past-president of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Associates.

Katie has been an active member of the New Canaan community for 17 years. Since moving to New Canaan from Boston, she has served as an appointed member of the New Canaan Parks and Recreation Committee, the Head of the Girls Program for New Canaan Lacrosse, the co-President of the Saxe Middle School Parent Teacher Committee, and a Board Member at St. Luke’s School. Prior to leaving the workforce to stay home with her three daughters, Katie served as the Budget Director for two Boston area nonprofits, managing grants from the U.S. Departments of Health and Education. She graduated from Williams College with a BA in Art History.

Rebecca grew up on a sustainable tree farm in North Central Wisconsin before moving to Milwaukee to earn her degree from the University of Wisconsin in Management Information Systems. Following graduation, she began working for a regional mutual fund company and transferred to New York City to work as a financial analyst. After more than a decade in finance, Rebecca shifted to strategic corporate marketing and market segmentation strategy for a global event portfolio. In 2020, Rebecca chose to pursue a more personally purposeful career path and returned to graduate school to earn her Masters Certificates in Corporate Sustainability & Innovation from Harvard and Sustainable Business Strategy from Harvard Business School. She is currently a Corporate Social Responsibility consultant working with Fortune 500 firms. Rebecca and her husband moved to New Canaan in fall of 2017 and have two young children. Rebecca is also Chair of the Green Team at South School, an active member of the New Canaan Land Trust Events & Programming Committee, is the Troop Leader for her daughter’s Girl Scout Troop, a Religious Education instructor at St. Aloysius, and volunteer coaches her daughter’s softball team. She enjoys spending time outdoors with her family and their two rescue dogs, traveling, hiking, and exploring as many National Parks as possible.