Board of Directors

Greg Belcamino

Greg Belcamino is a lawyer who has volunteered with the Delaware Highlands Conservancy since 1995, and is currently Board President. He holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.A. from Vanderbilt University. After earning a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1982, Greg taught in the UCLA English Department. He left academia in 1986 to attend Yale Law School, graduating in 1989. For ten years, he practiced environmental law in New York City firms, leaving private practice to become Deputy Director (and later General Counsel) of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Environmental Coordination in 2000.

Greg worked on projects that required environmental review and served on the NY DEC’s Environmental Justice Advisory Group. He left the Mayor’s Office in 2008 and now serves on the boards of the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum and the Anglers' Club of New York.  He also volunteers with the Pew Environment Group and other advocacy organizations in support of federal legislation to protect ocean fisheries. He is admitted to the practice of law in state and federal courts in New York and in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Joseph Fowler

Joe Fowler is a retired insurance broker and Treasurer of the Board of the Delaware Highlands Conservancy. Joe has a master's degree in physics, and after thirty years as owner of an insuring agency in Walden, NY, he turned to teaching physics, business, and math at several NY colleges, including teaching physics at Brunswick school in Greenwhich, CT for twelve years. While in Walden, he became active in the Montgomery Food Pantry, Orange County SCORE (counseling people going into business) and served as a Church Elder. He also acted as Vice President of the Orange County Land Trust. In addition, Joe was a member of the Walden Rotary for 50 years, and they recently held an honoring dinner recognizing him “for a lifetime of community service.”

Joe retired in 1997 and ten years later moved with his wife Bernice to White Lake in Sullivan County, again becoming a SCORE counselor. Ever active in his local community, Joe is now a Trustee of the Monticello Crawford Library, a member of the Bethel Lions Club, and an Elder in the Bethel Presbyterian Church. The Fowlers have four grown children, scattered about the U.S. and Canada.

Denise Frangipane

Denise was raised in Bethel, NY, is a graduate of Monticello High School, received her B.A. from SUNY Binghamton and her MPA from Marist College. With members of her community, Denise organized Bethel First and Bethel Now!, two groups working in support of smart growth and community development. She has served on the Town’s comprehensive plan committee, was an organizing member of the Bethel Business Association, and is currently a Councilwoman on the Town Board.

After a ten-year career in human services, Denise accepted a position as Program Officer with the Gerry Foundation, where she became part of the Research and Development Team for both Bethel Woods Center for the Arts and Sullivan Renaissance. She currently manages the Harvest Festival at Bethel Woods, is involved with community development work and oversees the environmental and youth initiatives of Sullivan Renaissance. Denise lives in Bethel with her husband Dr. William Pammer and their four-legged friend, a lab mix named Lincoln-Jack.

Michael Geitz

Michael Geitz earned a bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University, followed by an MBA and a law degree, both from the University of South Carolina, and is a member of the South Carolina Bar Association.  

Michael then started a 30 year career in investment banking, beginning as Managing Director of a private equity firm from 1979 until 1984, before working for Merrill Lynch & Co. There he worked as co-head of Financial Institutions, head of global relationship management, Managing Director and Vice Chairman, and eventually retired as chairman of the Financial Institutions Group. Michael serves on the Board of the Conservancy, in his words, “to promote and sustain the mission of DHC.” He leads the Conservancy through the organization and fundraising of its incredibly successful annual spring gala and chairs the Conservancy’s finance committee. His outside interests include membership in the Hudson Farm Club and the Blooming Grove Club. In addition, he serves as Senior Warden of Good Shepherd Episcopal Church in Milford, PA.

Grant Genzlinger

Grant Genzlinger is the executive chef and co-owner of  Settlers Inn, Ledges Hotel and Glass wine bar, and Cocoon Coffee House in Hawley, PA. He is also co-owner of Sayre mansion inn in Bethlehem, PA, and serves as Secretary of the Board of the Delaware Highlands Conservancy. Born in Abington, PA, Grant spent his youth in the Philadelphia area. He graduated from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan with a degree in Archaic Chinese Language and Archeology. Working as a landscape designer, Grant moved to Hawley after meeting his now wife and partner, Jeanne, in the late 1970s. They have three grown children living in Washington, DC and New York City.

Grant is also an avid gardener and proponent of “garden to table” cuisine, working a great deal with local farmers and food producers. He maintains extensive herb and flower gardens on the Inn’s property and is an active member of the Pennsylvania Association of Sustainable Agriculture. He also volunteers with the local parks commission, where he has been a chairman for eighteen years, and the Wayne County Historical Society, where he is a board member and past president. Grant is also a past president of the Conservancy Board.

Krista Gromalski

Krista Gromalski is a co-founder of Heron’s Eye Communications. In addition to serving on the Board, Krista is a member of the Conservancy’s Outreach & Development Committee. She earned her B.A. in Communications from Wilkes University, and has since enjoyed a diverse career in journalism and public relations. She is currently pursuing her M.A. in Sustainable Business and Communities at Goddard College.

Before starting Heron’s Eye, Krista worked as a reporter covering the Upper Delaware River region, served as editor and publisher of Milford Magazine and campaign manager for Pike County’s successful Vote to Keep Pike Green open space ballot initiative. Krista is a producer of the public television documentary Nature’s Keepers: A Community of Conservationists, for which Heron’s Eye Communications received a 2008 PA Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence.

Donovan Houck

Jeffrey Moore

Dawn Williams

Keith Williams

Barbara Yeaman

Barbara Yeaman is the founder of the Delaware Highlands Conservancy and currently serves as the Vice President on the Board of Directors. In 1979 she earned a B.A. at the University of California, Irvine, in the School of Social Ecology, majoring in Environmental Analysis. From 1942 until 1944 she also attended Carnegie Mellon University Art Department, majoring in Sculpture.

Her professional experiences include working as an exhibit designer and presentation associate; acting as an adjunct professor in the art department at The American University; and working as a freelance graphic designer, all in Washington, DC over a period of twenty years. From 1979 until 1984, Barbara then worked for the Environmental Protection Agency in the Office of Water as a Consultant in Public Education for water reuse and conservation, also in Washington, DC. In 1979, she came to the Delaware Highlands region and worked as a journalist and photographer for The River Reporter in Narrowsburg, NY, as well as a freelance graphic designer in Milanville, PA. After founding the Conservancy, Barbara served as President, eventually holding all other offices and working in many different volunteer positions within the organization.