Twana Karney joined Acterra in July 2008 when she was hired as the program director of Green@Home. Twana began her career as a chemical engineer and received her MBA from the University of Chicago. Prior to joining our team, Twana worked for over eight years as the Executive Director for the Leadership Mountain View program, a program to train and develop community leaders. In January of 2007, Twana was selected by The Climate Project to be trained to present the slide show for "An Inconvenient Truth." Twana is currently giving presentations on behalf of The Climate Project to spread awareness about global warming and climate change. She was a member of the Mountain View Environmental Sustainability Task Force and has appeared with her husband, Bruce, on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer. In 2008 Twana was named vounteer of the year by Leadership Mountain View.

Deb Kramer joined Acterra in 2010 as the Green@Home Volunteer and Training Coordinator. She is responsible for training volunteers to perform HouseCalls, and for managing the hundreds of volunteers.

She earned her BA in Environmental Science at UC Berkeley, and has held a variety of positions, from Oracle Trainer and Curriculum Developer to Recycling Coordinator at RethinkWaste. However, throughout all her jobs, Deb is passionate about the environment, as evidenced by her service on environmental nonprofit boards, including Save the Bay and Sustainable San Mateo County.

Deb loves hiking and backpacking in the Sierra and on the Peninsula with her golden retriever buddy Cali, growing food in her garden, and reading biographies, mysteries, and thrillers.

Elizabeth Sarmiento joined Acterra as the Green@Home Outreach Coordinator in November 2009. A native Spanish speaker, Elizabeth is an advocate for environmental and social justice. Prior to joining Acterra, she was a Community Organizer for Services, Immigrant, Rights, And Education Network (SIREN), where she organized the first two Immigrants for the Environment projects in San José, CA. While working on her Environmental Studies degree at San José State University, Elizabeth was Director of the Environmental Resource Center.

For over three years she interned at the Santa Clara Valley Water District in its Water Use Efficiency Unit, where she had the opportunity to learn more about issues related to water resources and to promote water conservation in Santa Clara County. In 2008, Elizabeth was a member of the Mountain View Environmental Task Force, which allowed her to share, research and help write the City of Mountain View's Environmental Sustainability Report. Since 2003, Elizabeth has been part of the Youth Enrichment Strategies (YES) program. YES brings families of limited resources together to learn and appreciate the natural environment, through play, while camping in the redwood forests.

Debbie has been called "an environmental entrepreneur" for her skills in working with start-up projects and involving community volunteers. Her current role is to develop new programs for Acterra. Before working at Acterra, Debbie served five years as Outreach Director at the Foundation for Global Community. Debbie has also served leadership positions in several other organizations, including the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Canopy: Trees for Palo Alto, the San Francisquito Creek Watershed Council, and Leadership Midpeninsula. She served for six years as Executive Director of the Peninsula Conservation Center.

Debbie worked for seven years for the Palo Alto Unified School District as coordinator of parent-community involvement and as a volunteer leader of the city-wide PTA Council. A Palo Alto resident for over 30 years, Debbie has been an active leader in many local organizations, including the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club, Midpeninsula Access Corporation, the Center for Economic Conversion, Collective Roots Garden Project, and the Midtown Residents' Association, of which she was a co-founder. Educated at UC Berkeley and Stanford, Debbie has three grown children and five young grandchildren.