Miles-Wye Watershed Advisory Board

ShoreRivers has dedicated Watershed Advisory Boards for each major subwatershed within the organization's territory. The Miles-Wye Advisory Board is chartered specifically to oversee grassroots restoration and protection of the Miles and Wye rivers and Eastern Bay.


Bruce Abel
Sr. Vice President and COO, C.R. Daniels, Inc., Retired; worked with the American Lyme Disease Association and Teddy Roosevelt Conservation Partnership

Maura Bollinger
Telecommunications lawyer, Retired; SAV surveyor and all-around volunteer for ShoreRivers programs

Meta Boyd
Served on the Board of Directors of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, The Women’s Hospital Board, and Board of Trustees of The Garrison Forest School, co-chairing the development committee for eight years

Jack Broderick
President of Kent Island Heritage Society; one of the U.S. Army's first Race Relations Officers; longtime volunteer with ShoreRivers

Cliff Coppersmith
President, Chesapeake College

Nancy Cordes
CBS News Chief White House Correspondent

Katrina Hostetter
Freelance writer, Certified Yoga Instructor (RYT 200), nature lover, and conservationist. Mill Creek resident

John Kelly, Jr.
Avid outdoorsman passionate about the Chesapeake Bay watershed; Vice President, Kelly Benefits Advisory, a division of Kelly Benefits Strategies

Tom Leigh
Former Riverkeeper; Biologist, QA Co Planning Commission member

Rebecca Murphy
Former ShoreRivers employee, currently Chesapeake Bay Planner

Colin Walsh
Member of the Board of Directors at Pickering Creek Audubon Center

Daniel Watson
Operated a small commercial real estate development and consulting firm in Baltimore for 40 years, and also was the major financial backer and CFO of a successful healthcare IT company, active with Talbot Mentors

Peter Welling
Farmer, Lawyer, Avid Outdoorsman

Sandra Wilbanks
Graduate of University of Denver, current Chair of Woman’s Issues for the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Vice President of P/80 Co., volunteer for “Turn Around,” an organization to prevent human trafficking and domestic violence