Peter Ornstein
Peter served as the Deputy Regional Counsel with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Denver Regional Office form 2002-2012, and has been SIPP’s President since 2015.
Peter's degrees in geology, hydrogeology, and law, his professional experience at EPA, plus his numerous trips to both Israel and the West Bank give him a unique perspective on the environmental and social problems in the region.
Peter is also a trained mediator and a former member of the Colorado Mediation Center, LLC.
Anne Peters
Anne consults worldwide on end-of-life issues for electronics and on related sustainable materials management issues.
Anne led workshops in Israel and the West Bank in 2016 on behalf of SIPP, educating Israeli regulators and environmental advocates as well as West Bank citizens on the adverse impacts & policy options related to open burning of scrap electronics.
She joined the SIPP Board in 2018, bringing extensive project management and grant-writing skills.
Anne is president of Gracestone, Inc., a US-based consultancy, and has worked in recycling for 40 years, with a focus on recycling and reuse of complex engineered products for the past 20 years. She specializes in many aspects of the electronics recycling industry, including North American and international policy issues, EH&S, global certification options, regulatory compliance, and standards conformity. Anne has published in the trade news; presented at conferences in North America, Europe, and Asia; and taught graduate-level classes in electronics recycling and environmental matters.
Sara-Jane Cohen
Sara-Jane is a retired attorney. She is deeply committed to helping Israelis, Palestinians and those who care about the land they share find ways to live and work together to tackle the environmental and other common challenges that affect them every day.
Beth Ornstein
As the founder and manager of Colorado Mediation Center, LLC., Beth provides mediation and other dispute resolution services to help individuals and organizations resolve conflict.
She also provides communications and conflict management training, conflict coaching, and group facilitation services.
Liz Fox
Liz Fox has served for more than twenty years in a leadership role on the National Board of Hadassah and has visited Israel over a dozen times. She has been committed to working for peace in the middle east for all of her adult life. She is also a retired teacher who taught in the Boulder Valley Schools. She is a founding member of SIPP.
Liz recently published a book, WE ARE GOING TO BE LUCKY... based on correspondence between her parents during World War II. The book, "We Are Going To Be Lucky" follows Liz's dad from basic training to the war in Europe, and through his recovery from wounds and her mom's experience on the home front working as a machinist and becoming a new mom.
Nidal Allis
Nidal Allis resides in Maryland and is CEO of he electronics recycling company Techno Rescue. Nidal, an American veteran and has extended family in Palestine, which gives him a deep appreciation of the challenges and importance of growing a responsible electronics recycling industry in and among Palestinian and Israeli communities in ways that protect the environment and workers’ health and safety.
Bernard Amadei
Bernard is an engineering professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and founder of Engineers Without Borders-USA.
Sid Fox
Sid retired from IBM after 33 years of a myriad of technology and product involvement. During the last decade and a half he was involved in telecommunications outsourcing, marketing and strategy, requiring a broad range of skills involving technology solutions, selling proposals, crafting competitive financials, proposal and contract writing and HR.
Since retirement Sid has been involved in and helped lead community efforts in adult education, auditing classes outside his original field of Physics, the local chapter of the Anti-Defamation League, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, while pursuing his interests and independent research in things biblical, Shakespeare, the Classics, and evolution.
Adina Friedman
Adina Friedman is a scholar-practitioner in the field of peace and conflict analysis and resolution. She has extensive experience teaching and working on interfaith/intercommunal relations, gender, refugees, and social justice, in the US, the Middle East, and beyond. She has worked in the field of sustainable development and environmental peacebuilding in Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, and Morocco. She regularly publishes and speaks on these topics.
Adina’s regional expertise lies in the Middle East and North Africa. She grew up in Israel, where she spends a few months a year. She regularly travels to the region, and has led immersion study trips to Israel, Palestine (West Bank/Gaza Strip/Easte Jerusalem), Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Turkey, and the UAE.
Adina has taught graduate and undergraduate courses for more than twenty years at several universities. She currently teaches at the Carter School of Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, the Elliott School at George Washington University, and the Gildenhorn Institute at the University of Maryland. She holds a PhD in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from GMU, an MA in History of the Middle East and Africa (Tel Aviv University), an MS in Peace and Development (Goteborg University); and BSc in Biology (SJSU). Adina is the Founding Director of ILLI Initiatives and a board member of SIPP (Sustainable Israeli Palestinian Projects).
Sandy Friedman
Sandy has a master’s degree in Community Mental Health nursing and has always been concerned about public health issues impacting communities. Another area of concern is maternal and child health in early childhood.
Alan Sachs
Based in Washington DC, Alan is an attorney at Beveridge & Diamond, PC, the oldest and largest environmental law firm in the United States. Alan’s practice is focused on helping clients resolve business and regulatory challenges in order to ensure compliance with applicable environmental requirements.
In addition, Alan lived in Israel between 2009 and 2016, where he was an active volunteer with organizations that promote shared citizenship and equality in Israeli society. Alan also developed an extracurricular program to provide local Jewish and Arab children with an opportunity to learn, interact, and speak together.
Roberta Spivak
I have an M.A. in Middle East politics and lived on and off in the Middle East for two years. My Hebrew is passable, but I speak with a Spanish accent. I am currently studying Arabic with a teacher in Qalqilya.
My career has been eclectic. I’ve written an academic book on maritime piracy and the international law of the sea. I’ve worked in film and made a murder mystery/comedy called Murder Over Easy, which took place in an upstate New York diner. More recently, I designed a discussion series at the United Nations in New York and Geneva and right now I’m an administrator at the National Center for Atmospheric Research where I work in the Climate & Global Dynamics laboratory. I’m married and have two teenage children. I’ve recently stopped eating sugar, which makes me a much happier person.