The Sierra Club Southeastern PA Group (SPG) Executive Committee consists of 11 members, each serving 2 year terms. 5 seats are expiring at the end of 2018. You can find info about the current ExCom members on the About Us  page.

Review the short biographies below, then click on THIS LINK to be taken to the SPG ExCom Ballot. For Sierra Club members only, please.

Abbie Wysor - (Delaware County)
I am a graduate of Virginia Tech (B.S. and M.S., Sociology) and of Villanova University (M.A., Theatre). After 20 years as a costumer at various area theatres, I now work for a claims administrator handling class-action suits, which allows me a better balance of work and hiking and a one-block commute.

My husband and I have lived in Media for over 30 years and raised our son here. I am active in local efforts to preserve Media as a livable, green town, including working for environmental candidates for Borough Council and making informational literature drops to residents.

An avid hiker and backpacker, I am Vice President of Batona Hiking Club (an Appalachian Trail maintaining club). I am also a member of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy and our club’s representative to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Partnership Committee of the ATC. The AT is 100% maintained by volunteers.

A member of Sierra Club since 2009, I became active with the Delco Chapter when it formed in 2017. This summer, I was part of the team who interviewed candidates for endorsement and have taken an active part in campaigning for my chosen candidates. I am also working with Media’s EAC to get a commitment to Ready for 100.

Pratima Agrawal - (Philadelphia)
Pratima is a local arts administrator, theatre educator, and performing artist. Her passion for environmental issues inspired her to lead a Lehigh Valley Beyond Oil campaign several years back while living in Bethlehem, PA. She started a petition to bring regional rail to the area and wrote letters to the editor to call for greater action to move away from fossil fuels and embrace rail. The petition received wide support and while the campaign to bring rail to the area did not achieve its goal at the time, the campaign is ongoing.

She moved to Philadelphia four years ago by way of Bethlehem, PA. In January 2017, she joined Sierra Club’s Philadelphia Ready for 100 clean energy campaign, and as a core member of its team, she has helped garner Mayor’s Kenney’s 100% Clean Energy Pledge, launch the Ready for 100 campaign for the city, and is currently helping to pass resolutions that could ensure commitments from City Council to achieve 100%. Her hope is that RF100 can bring together as many voices from neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia so that the city will see the urgency of transitioning as rapidly as possibly to 100% in an equitable way.

Ann DiCampello - (Bucks County)
Ann is a graduate of Misericordia University with a BS in Science and a minor in Chemistry. After working almost ten years as the Water Microbiology Laboratory Manager for QC Laboratories of Southampton, Pa she focused on raising a family, having recently moved to Fairless Hills in order to decrease their environmental footprint. After receiving Cornell University certificates in 1) Climate Change Science, Communication and Action 2) Urban Environmental Education and 3) Global Environmental Education, Ann has been developing environmental educational programs for school aged children. 

Ann is a member of the Bucks County, Pa Sierra group and works to inform her community in efforts such as 100% renewables which she used as a platform while running for township council in 2017. Ann also advocates for the Delaware River Keeper’s Network in which she speaks regularly about the detrimental effects of fracking within and around the river to the commissioners, representing the constituents of Pa. She is also a member of Bucks Environmental Action as well as a board member of GOAL of Levittown, PA a community driven effort to clean up mother nature’s messes among the neighborhoods.

David Moscatello - (Philadelphia), incumbent
David K. Moscatello, Ph.D. I've been a lifelong nature lover, an environmentalist since high school, and enjoy hiking, camping, canoeing, and cycling. I joined the Sierra Club in 1984, was active in the Wildcat Group in Indiana after graduate school, and the South Jersey Group while at Richard Stockton College. I became active in SPG upon retirement, and I am a Sierra Club life member and current SPG Ex-Comm member. Although interested in all aspects of nature and the environment, my main focus is in reducing the harms to the environment and human health associated with fossil fuel use, and in the renewable alternatives to fossil fuels. Proper regulation of all forms of fossil fuels, from exploration to final waste disposal, will expose the fossil fuel-based economy as the unsustainable, uneconomic folly that it is. In conjunction with the rapid improvements in solar and wind power and energy storage, both technological and economic, I think we can transition to a greener civilization much more quickly than naysayers might think. I was active in the Beyond Coal Campaign for several years, and my current focus is the Ready for 100% campaign.

Ken Hemphill - (Delaware County), incumbent
In 2013 Ken co-founded SaveThe Valley, Inc., a group set up to preserve a 325 acre taxpayer-subsidized wildlife refuge in Beaver Valley on the PA/DE border. Much of that effort involved organizing fundraisers, producing a trove of online communications, articles, and videos, coordinating public demonstrations, facilitating community outreach, and recruiting supporters to the cause. In 2014 he founded the Beaver Valley Preservation Alliance to take a more aggressive activist approach.

Seeing the threat to eastern Delaware County’s last large forest at Don Guanella in Marple, Ken joined Save Marple Greenspace and became their communications coordinator in 2015. That group’s efforts led the township to reject two different developer’s plans. Later in 2015, he joined Neighbors for Crebilly as their communications coordinator to fight Toll Brothers’ plans to pave over an iconic scenic landscape in Westtown where part of the afternoon portion of the Battle of the Brandywine was fought.

Ken’s articles have frequently appeared in several Pennsylvania newspapers as well as the national journal Truth-out.org. His 2014 film Blank Spot narrated by Peter Coyote won “Best Documentary Short” at the Oregon Film Awards. In his free time, Ken is usually in the woods hiking or mountain biking.

Sue Edwards - (Delaware County), incumbent
Sue grew up in Swarthmore, then lived in various parts of Philadelphia for over 20 years, returning to Swarthmore in 1989. She earned a BA in Sociology at Oberlin College and an MA in Early Childhood Education & Conflict Resolution from Vermont College. She has had several careers and been an activist for justice and peace most of her life, but in 2010 she came to realize that climate change presents the greatest threat to civilization in our era, and she started volunteering with Sierra Club around the time she retired. Her particular focus has been on environmental justice as she worked on the Beyond Coal campaign and the Ready for 100 campaign in both Philadelphia & Delaware Counties. She led the organizing of the launch event for Philly RF100. She was one of the founders of Philly Climate Works, which brings together union leaders with community group leaders and environmental justice advocates. She is also an at-large member of the PA Chapter Executive Committee. She has canvassed tirelessly for progressive candidates and been arrested in protests. She loves her sons, hiking & camping with her husband, monitoring the production of the solar panels on their roof, and raised-bed gardening.

Pat Beaudet - (Philadelphia), incumbent
I have been a volunteer for the Sierra Club for almost 20 years. My first undertaking was to recruit 75 volunteers for Earth Day on Belmont Plateau in 1992. My contributions to SPG have largely focused on organization, events, communications and fundraising. I have done several “stints” as newsletter editor; organized successful Earth Day events in the 90’s, and worked to make the group leaders a cohesive, effective group. I held the chair position for 8 years and was happy to turn it over to a younger member of the ex-com in January 2012.

My most recent incarnation is as Philadelphia County Leader and member of membership committee, as well as Social Chair.

My goal now is to stay on the executive committee as a “senior” member who has a broad knowledge of how the Club works at the national, chapter and group levels.