GrowSmart
Maine Staff
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Nancy E. Smith joined GrowSmart Maine as Executive Director in April 2010. She served in the Maine State Legislature representing Monmouth, Litchfield and Wales from 2002-2010, and she and her husband operate a diversified livestock farm in Monmouth. She was House Chair of the Business, Research, and Economic Development Committee and served on the Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry Committee.
Nancy has lived and worked in Maine since 1981. In addition to serving in the legislature and running a pasture-based farm, Nancy is a licensed forester and mother of three native Mainers. She serves on the boards of the Maine Economic Growth Council, Maine Rural Partners, and Council of State Governments, Eastern Regional Conference.
Mary Mayo, Vice President for Development, was born in Maine and, with the exception of her college years in Vermont, has lived here ever since. She has worked in media since college, most recently for MPBN as VP for Development. Her move to GrowSmart Maine was inspired by her desire to participate in improving the quality of life in Maine without ruining that which makes it so special. She and her husband have two grown children and recently moved off of Peaks Island to a farmhouse in Bowdoinham.
Bruce Hyman, AICP, directs GrowSmart Maine's smart growth planning initiatives. He is a transportation and community planner with 17 years of professional planning experience. Bruce joined GrowSmart's staff in January 2007 but was a volunteer for GrowSmart's education committee soon after the organization's founding. Bruce was drawn to join the staff because of its holistic, larger context approach to smart growth -- the conversation fueled by the Charting Maine's Future report by GrowSmart and the Brookings Institution.
Prior to joining GrowSmart, Bruce was a Senior Planner for ten years, managing the Portland, Maine, Wilbur Smith Associates office, a national engineering and planning firm. Before WSA, Bruce was a transportation Planner with the Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation System (PACTS) in Portland for four years. Bruce is a certified planner and on the Board of Directors of the Maine Association of Planners (2009-2010). He is also an active volunteer with Portland Trails and the Bicycle Coalition of Maine. He lives in Portland with his wife Cindy and is currently surviving his bout of having two (wonderful) teen daughters.
Lock Kiermaier, Policy Outreach Coordinator, is the newest additionto the GrowSmart Maine team in January 2010. Lock is advocating for GrowSmart's legislative priorities in Augusta and carrying out our coalition building and policy work. For the past two years, as Director for Special Projects for Mattson Development, Lock has worked closely with Maggie Drummond andGrowSmart Maine in successfully lobbying the Legislature for expansion of the historic preservation tax credit, the creation of a statewide uniform building code and the Community for Maine's Future bond issue which will go before the voters for approval this June. Prior to his work for Mattson Development, Lock was employed for close to 25 years as a nonpartisan Legislative Analyst working for the Legislature's Office of Fiscal & Program Review.
Kim Ballard, Office Manager, joined GrowSmart Maine in July 2010. She grew up in Liberty, Maine and is a graduate of College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. Though she has traveled all over the country, she keeps coming home and is constantly amazed by the beauty and strength of this state. She recently moved to a beautiful old home in Gorham with her boyfriend and cat and is looking forward to revitalizing the house and gardens in her spare time.
