Board of Directors

Carl Chatfield, M.S., PMP
Board President

Carl brings to PBR a focus on project and process management in high-performing organizations. Carl holds a BA in the Liberal Arts from The Evergreen State College,  an MS in Technical Communication from the College of Human-Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington, and a graduate certificate in Ecological Planning and Design from Antioch University Seattle.  

Carl is a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism and has been an active citizen participant in land use planning efforts. Carl is a content project manager and technical writer at Microsoft and author of several books about Microsoft Project. Carl’s family has the opportunity to practice permaculture and sustainable design principles on their small farm in rural King County, Washington.

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Jason Niebler, M.Sc.
Board Vice-President & Treasurer

Program Director & Faculty Instructor, Sustainable Agriculture Education (SAgE) Program, Seattle Central Community College, Seattle Washington. Natural Resource Management & Conservation Consultant, Muyu Consultants International, La Paz, Bolivia.

Jason brings a wealth of experience to PBR, working in natural resource management, conservation, education, and research and development in the Pacific Northwest and Latin America.

While in the Pacific Northwest, he has concentrated on salmon habitat protection advocacy, backcountry forest management, recreation and restoration, urban ecological restoration, and biointensive organic farming where, in most cases, environmental education and training was a parallel programmatic theme.

Subsequently, Jason assisted researchers of Mexican universities with ethnographic and environmental assessment projects in rural indigenous communities. He then obtained a graduate degree at the University of Washington - College of Forest Resources and conducted research on traditional agroforestry practices in Veracruz State, Mexico.

Upon completion of this degree, Jason taught tropical forest ecology, agroforestry, agroecology, conservation, and sustainable development at the Monteverde Institute, Costa Rica, for USA university study abroad courses and worked on community development projects in areas such as biological corridors, reforestation and ecological restoration, agro-eco-tourism, constructed wetland grey water treatment, and green building with bamboo, etc. In addition to his position as Faculty Instructor/Researcher, he served as the Monteverde Institute Academic Director and Interim Executive Director. Most recently, Jason co-developed and taught for the Council on International Educational Exchange - Sustainability & the Environment Program in Monteverde.

Currently, Jason is developing community tourism and sustainable development research, technical, and capacity-building services as the Natural Resource Management and Conservation Consultant for Muyu Consultants International in La Paz, Bolivia. He is also the founder, Program Director, and Faculty Instructor of the Sustainable AGriculture Education (SAGE) Program at Seattle Central Community College in Seattle, Washington. The SAGE Program, funded in part by the National Science Foundation - Advanced Technological Education grant, is partnering with PBR to provide its students with professional internship opportunities in integrated bamboo-based agroforestry.

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Brian Arnold
Board Secretary

Project Manager
Schultz Miller, Seattle, Washington

Brian manages the construction process for complex, custom residences as a project manager for Schultz Miller, a general contractor based in Seattle. He is involved in the process of architecture, engineering and interior design; working with consultants, vendors and contractors worldwide.

As a committee member of the AIA Seattle Custom Residential Architects Network, Brian is dedicated to promoting public awareness of the value of working with an AIA architect for residential design projects.

Brian is also a member of the Congress of Residential Architecture, a grassroots organization of builders and architects dedicated to improving the practice of residential design and construction in the Pacific Northwest.

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Kelli Johnson, J.D.
Attorney, Associated Counsel for the Accused (ACA), Seattle, Washington