Mark got involved with BAA in 1993 when his friend Holly asked him to redesign the Earth Day logo. Mark gradually got more and more involved in the organization, serving on the BAA Council (Board) and leading several projects over 7+ years, such as the Schools Group, the Headwaters Forest Project, the EcoCalendar, and others.

“BAA changed my life in many ways — teaching me about myriad environmental issues, showing me how nonprofits run from the inside, igniting a passion for North Coast forests, and helping me foster a sense of place. Most of all, the people I met through BAA became my chosen family, lifelong friends and compatriots I’m proud to know and love.”

Post BAA

Mark has run a small design studio for over 30 years and worked with many of the Bay Area’s environmental groups such as Committee for Green Foothills and Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, as well as national / international NGOs such as The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Amnesty International, and DarkSky International. He spent over a decade working with Silicon Valley tech companies such as Fitbit and CNET, and specialized in helping small startups become leaders in their sectors.

Mark is responsible for this website and runs the BAA History Project. His first career path was journalism, and he won awards for writing, editing, and photojournalism, and published a music newspaper on actual paper, when that was a thing. Peter Drekmeier said Mark “is the one person best suited to do this project.”