Nora Haskins – Chair
Nora Haskins completed a Permaculture Design Course taught by Scott Pittman in 1999 and says that the course had a major impact on how she now chooses to live her life and why she is still committed to the mission of the Permaculture Credit Union and will continue to support it in any way that she can.

Nora has been a volunteer for the Permaculture Credit Union since 1998. She served as the PCU’s acting president/ceo for the first year upon receiving their charter in May of 2000. She served on the Supervisory Committee from May 2001 until Dec. 2004. She was elected as a member of the PCU Board of Directors in May of 2005. She held the position of Chairperson of the Board for two years (May, 2005 to May 2007) and she completed her term as a member of the Board through May 2008. In November of 2008, Nora was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Permaculture Guild, Inc and elected as Chair and Executive Director. In the spring of 2011, Nora was appointed to the Board of Directors of The New Mexico Farmers’ Marketing Association (NMFMA).

Susan Coulter – Vice-chair and Secretary
As the youngest of six children in a working class family, Susan grew up understanding the fundamentals of thrift and reuse. The family home had a cistern that was fed by the downspouts on the house and was used to water the grass and wash the cars. Her clothes were almost entirely hand-me-downs from older sisters – and brothers, for a large part of her childhood. The family always had a garden – even if it was small. As an adult, Susan has reconnected with those roots and added in the practices and ethics of permaculture. Being used to hand-me-downs, buying clothes from a thrift store is not a burden. Memories of gardening with her parents and grandparents are renewed and reused with the addition of ideas and approaches that are more recently learned. Susan is committed to using a bicycle as her first choice of transportation, and was an early adopter of hybrid technology, buying a Prius in 2001. That Prius purchase led her to the Permaculture Credit Union where she spent 5 years as a member of the Board of Directors, 2 of those years as Chair. She is committed to continuing her volunteer activities with the PCU and other organizations as a way of contributing to the community and effecting the change she would like to see in the world.  In November of 2008, Susan was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Permaculture Guild, Inc and elected as Vice-Chair and Secretary.

Phil Vergamini – Treasurer
Phil has been a volunteer for the Permaculture Credit Union since 1998. In 1999, he completed a Permaculture Design Course taught by Scott Pittman. In mid February of 2000, the PCU organizing committee selected a Board of Directors and Phil was elected to be the Chairman of the board, a position he held through their first chartered year. He remained on the board for another year. Phil created and maintained the PCU web site until the fall of 2007. He also worked on the committee that choose our first computer system and financial institution software. He was the PCU security officer. In January of 2005, Phil was appointed to be a member of the Supervisory Committee and held that position until May 2008.  In November of 2008, Phil was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Permaculture Guild, Inc and elected as Treasurer.

Judy Mosher – Director

Judy’s support for the ethics and values of permaculture has been growing her entire life. As a child in Chicago, Illinois, her mother routinely checked her pockets after playing in the yard to ensure she didn’t bring her “friends” the Gartner snakes into the house with her. Like fellow Board Member Susan Coulter, Judy purchased an early model Prius to reduce her carbon footprint and support the hybrid auto industry. To the Permaculture Guild Board, Judy brings 20 plus years of management experience from the academic and non-profit worlds. As the Director of Southwestern Counseling Center, Judy secured two grants which were instrumental in growing the center to serve over 250 Northern New Mexico residents with low cost counseling and art therapy services weekly. Most recently she worked for six years as Administrator for an environmental non-profit organization here in New Mexico. Judy is a Licensed Professional Counselor as well as a freelance writer who spends quality time hiking our beautiful arroyos with her golden retriever, Jessie.