Clean Air Council Enters a New Era of Board Leadership

November 14, 2024 – Clean Air Council is pleased to announce the newly elected officers of Clean Air Council’s Board of Directors: Co-Presidents Carolyn Hewson and Oscar Wang, Vice President Laura Blank, Treasurer Jeff Aldi, and Secretary Ben Cromie. While Board officer elections happen each year, this year’s election on October 16th was particularly momentous: Clean Air Council’s Board President of 25 years, Russ Allen, opted not to run for reelection, passing the reins to a new generation of leadership. Allen presided over decades of historic growth and programmatic victories at the Council. He culminated his tenure by overseeing the successful transition of leadership to new Executive Director, Alex Bomstein, after the retirement of the Council’s longtime Executive Director, Joseph Minott. Allen will remain a member of the Council’s Board. The Council is deeply grateful for his decades of service and leadership. 

“The Council is in great hands with our dedicated and talented new Board Co-Presidents and Executive Officers,” said Alex Bomstein, Clean Air Council Executive Director. “The Board’s Executive Team has already shown strong internal leadership and a knack for navigating organizational affairs.”

Hewson, Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives at Penn Medicine, has been a member of the Board since 2021 and began serving as Board Vice President earlier this year. She recently led the Council in the creation of a new strategic plan. Wang, Founder and CEO of College Together, has been a member of the Board since 2021 and Board Vice President since 2022. In addition to serving as Vice President, he was recently a member of the Board’s Executive Director Search Committee. Blank, Director of Leadership Coaching and Strategy at School Wellbeing Solutions, was a member of the Board from 2009-2013 and then from 2019 until now and serves on the Board’s Personnel and Compensation Committee. Aldi, Vice President of Finance and Accounting at Comcast, has been a member of the Board since 2010, and has been Board Treasurer since 2010. Cromie, Senior Planner at CHPlanning, who has been a member of the Board since 2018, recently served as a Board representative to the Strategic Planning Committee.

More information about Clean Air Council’s Board of Directors is available here.