Board of Directors
JAMIE BANKS
Founder, President, and Quiet Landcare Chair
Jamie Banks, PhD, MSc, is Founder and President of Quiet Communities. She is a health care and environmental scientist with an extensive background in health outcomes and economics, environmental behavior, and policy who brings a multi-faceted perspective to her work. During her career, she held senior consulting positions at Abt Associates, CRA International, and ML Strategies, the consulting arm of Mintz Levin working with the healthcare industry. In 2007, she turned her attention to environmental health and climate change, first founding Planet Rewards, a company pioneering a corporate platform to promote eco-friendly behaviors and then founding Quiet Communities in 2013, to help find solutions to problems of harmful noise and pollution affecting communities. In addition to her role at Quiet Communities, she chairs the Noise & Health Committee at the American Health Association (APHA) and is leading efforts to develop policy statements around noise and related pollution. The first APHA policy statement, Noise as a Public Health Hazard, was published in 2021. Jamie holds a PhD in Social Policy/Health Economics (University of Kent, UK), and earned Masters’ degrees from Dartmouth Medical School and MIT.
TRICIA GLASS
Executive Director
Tricia Glass, MSJ, is Executive Director at Quiet Communities. An experienced nonprofit leader, she advises and has served as vice president of the nonprofit Sustainable Wellesley, helping to guide climate action in her community. She is a board member at the Boston-based nonprofit Tenacity, where she serves on the Executive Committee and helped to reimagine the organization’s primary fundraiser – from gala to tennis tournament. She advised and served as a founding board member for nonprofits including Beyond the 11th, TentED, and Razia’s Ray of Hope. She worked as Director of Project Development at Chicago-based ARZU Studio Hope, which has since merged with Turquoise Mountain. She also worked as a grant writer for The Steppingstone Foundation in Boston. Earlier in her career, Tricia reported for Reuters and United Press International, and worked as a stringer and freelance writer. She is an occasional contributor to The Boston Globe. She holds a master’s from Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism and a BA from Colby College.
Neil D. Donnenfeld
Board Treasurer
Neil D. Donnenfeld, MBA, is a board member and chair of the Quiet Restaurants initiative. He is single-sided deaf and suffers from tinnitus and hyperacusis as the result of an acoustic neuroma (benign brain tumor). Excessive noise adversely affects him every day. Neil co-founded Advanced Vision Research (AVR), maker of TheraTears and MacuTrition and, ultimately, became the CEO. He has served on 12 nonprofit boards including four times as president and twice as treasurer. He also has served on two corporate boards. He is a former Procter & Gamble brand manager, having worked on Dramamine, Icy Hot, Oil of Olay, Clearasil and Bain de Soleil. Neil’s experience, skills, and sense of urgency enable companies and organizations to create social and economic value through decisive leadership, strategic guidance, revenue generation and fiscal control. He completed his undergraduate work at Dartmouth College and has an MBA from The Wharton School.
ANNE HOLLANDER
Board Secretary
Anne Hollander is a community organizer and environmental and public health advocate. She is a founder, past president, and currently vice president of the Montgomery County Quiet Skies Coalition where she works with aviation-impacted residents, local and state elected officials, members of Congress, the FAA, and other quiet skies groups regionally and around the country to find solutions to the noise, public health, and environmental hazards caused by aircraft operations at Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) and around the country. Anne is also a founding member of the Aviation-Impacted Communities Alliance, a group working for changes in legislation and industry practices in the U.S. to mitigate harms from aircraft noise. Anne has worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Conservation Foundation, and Resolve, an environmental mediation group. She has also led a variety of school- and community-based initiatives focused on the education and healthy development of children and families. Anne holds an MA degree from the Stanford University Food Research Institute, where she focused on environmental food policy and economics, and a BA in International Public Policy focusing on the intersection of environmental issues, economics, and ethics.
CATHY HARRIS
Board Member
Cathy Harris has spent her career in the financial services industry as a financial advisor and Vice President at Morgan Stanley/Graystone Consulting. She has worked with multigenerational family wealth, foundations, and nonprofit organizations, providing wealth management; including asset management, tax and estate planning strategies, education and retirement planning, and long-term care solutions. She has recently retired. Cathy has also served as Treasurer and Board Director of Quiet Communities since its inception in 2013.