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Roger is recently retired from UMass Medical School where he served as professor of family medicine and community health and was involved in delivering primary care, teaching, and research on cancer screening. He joined ECA 9 months ago and has been active on the legislative and research teams.
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Tina Grosowsky retired in December 2020 from a twenty-two year career in Public Health working on tobacco prevention.  She was the Program Director for the Central Massachusetts Tobacco Free Community Partnership at UMass Medical School, a state funded program through the MA Department of Public Health for 8 years. The program works on racial justice, public policy, cessation and prevention.  Previously Tina was the  Substance Abuse Prevention Coordinator for the town of Westford MA for 10 years...
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Diane edits the ECA Massachusetts newsletter and assists with other chapter communications. She joined ECA in 2019 after attending the Climate Strike and deciding it was time to become a serious climate activist. Diane brings a lifelong passion for environmental issues and diverse skills honed in parenting and a varied career path. Her environmental activism was sparked in the 1970s when she read Frances Moore Lappé’s landmark book, Diet for a Small Planet. Diane became a vegetarian, began vo...
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Larry Rosenberg is an activist with Elders Climate Action and 350 Massachusetts. His work on  energy issues began in the 1980s when he was an engineer at the largest utility-scale wind turbine company in the United States. Among his current interests is the need to transform the electrical grid so that it can easily transmit renewably sourced electricity across the continent. Before becoming a climate change activist, Larry volunteered for many years in national Jewish organizations advocatin...
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Seth Evans recently retired from 19 years of teaching elementary school in Needham, MA.  He remains active in the Massachusetts Teachers Association, serving on the Retired Member and Education Policy and Practice committees.  He is also an activist in the Children’s Screen Time Action Network, where he chairs the Screens in Schools work group.  His work with ECA on climate change, though, is now his principal volunteer commitment.  Prior to becoming a teacher, Seth organized service workers in ...
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Maiyim moved to Boston  to help with her granddaughter after years in Japan, and not long after decided to step away from her profession as a Japanese translator to give more of her time to climate activism. It didn't take long to run into Grady and friends at a presentation at the Brookline Senior Center and she immediately became involved with Elders Climate Action, which really fits with this phase of her life, working with  people who are more or less retired but still very concerned wit...
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Paul has more than thirty years of leadership experience working with organizations committed to public service and addressing human needs and potentials. He works at the nexus of social justice and environmental survival, with projects including New Climate Magazine, Elders Climate Action, Waterkeepers, Florida Institute of Saltwater Heritage and Florida Maritime Museum. Early in his career, Paul served as Massachusetts Deputy State Budget Director and Acting Budget Director, responsib...
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Arnie is a member of the leadership team of the Mass Chapter of Elders Climate Action where his focus is translating knowledge of climate change into action. Arnie is a resident of Stow Mass where he is the town Energy Manager and Green Communities coordinator as well the representative to the board of Stow’s municipal utility Arnie is a graduate of MIT with degrees in electrical engineering and physics.  Arnie’s career was in computer systems but his passion is clean energy, energy effici...
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Rick Lent has spent the last 25 years facilitating meetings around the world for such organizations as the World Food Programme, USAID, UNICEF, the WK Kellogg Foundation and the International Red Cross along with dozens of local community and nonprofit groups. He received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University in education and organizational change. Rick lives and gardens in Stow.
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