Our Team
Terra Huey, Program Manager
Terra (she/her) runs SDA’s programs including Listening Sessions, film screenings, fundraising campaigns, interviews, presentations, and local/national communications with like-minded organizations. Terra is a founding member of the Langley City Council Commission for Dismantling Systemic Racism and aims to bring anti-racism, equity, and accessibility to her work. She has a background in climate justice, community building, and global studies. She celebrates 5 years with SDA this year.
Nicole Price, Media Coordinator
Nicole (she/they) is SDA’s social media creative and zine writer. They have a background in film, virtual engagement, and community involvement. Before joining SDA, Nicole worked in New York to empower youth through short film productions. They now focus on bringing online awareness to the environmental and social concerns faced from the Navy’s Growler jets in Washington and utilize a background in international and cultural immersion to connect these local issues to a global perspective.
Board of Directors
Anne Harvey
graduated from The Evergreen State College and the University of Washington’s School of Social Work MSW Program. She served as faculty member, program manager, and interim director at Antioch University’s B.A. Completion Program for 32 years, and taught leadership, women’s studies, community organizing and social/racial justice at the Seattle campus and Tulalip and Muckleshoot Tribal Colleges. Anne helped to create the Women’s Funding Alliance in Seattle and Coupeville Farm to School. She works to protect and preserve the magnificent beauty of our region and its historic integrity.
Maryon Attwood
is a co-founder of Citizens of Ebey’s Reserve (COER) and Sound Defense Alliance (SDA). She currently serves as the Chair of the SDA Legislative Committee. Maryon is a retired non-profit administrator and co-owner of Cook on Clay LLC. She lobbied for and assisted in establishing the Organic Program at Washington State University, and co-founded the Organic Farm School on Whidbey Island. She has established major state and regional environmental preservation programs, and arts education programs across the country.
Rebecca (Becky) Wagner
is a graduate of Central WA University, magna cum laude, with BS’s in Accounting and BA - Finance. She has been a licensed CPA for over 30 years, working in management in the Public Accounting, Hi-Tech, Governmental and Non-Profit sectors, and as a sole proprietor. In addition to her volunteer work with the SDA, she has provided pro bono tax and accounting services to several organizations to further their missions – and also volunteered within the Whidbey Island community. Her passion is to preserve the sacred environment of the Salish Sea and its surrounds.
Amy Arisco
is a proud liberal arts graduate from Austin College in Sherman, TX with a degree in German and International studies who, after college, spent a few amazing years working at Grand Canyon National Park and then somehow found the way into medicine…. She currently spends too much time working as a physician/surgeon in the region, but looks forward to one day having more time to devote to issues of passion and great importance such as SDA.
Deborah Wright
graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and from Antioch University with a Master’s Degree in Psychology. During her 35+ years of business experience, she served in a variety of managerial positions for GTE in sales, service, construction and managed the employee assistance service for the company. She also served the City of Everett as the Executive Administrator for 13 years.
The governing board of the Sound Defense Alliance is comprised of leaders from the following regional groups:
Citizens of Ebey’s Reserve for a Healthy, Safe & Peaceful Environment (“COER”) was formed in 2012 following the EA-18G “Growler” aircraft introduction to Whidbey Island and the public realization that the Navy had not accurately described the Growler’s true impacts in its 2005 Environmental Assessment.
The Navy claimed there would be fewer Growler operations than their predecessor (Prowler) jets, that the Growler was quieter than the Prowler, and that there would be less overall impact upon the public and the environment from the Growler. Actual flight operations beginning in 2011 proved all of those claims to be false. COER arose from the public outcry in Central Whidbey.
Today, COER seeks Growler missions to be relocated to military reservations where there will be no impact upon civilians or the environment.
Area Served: Primarily Central Whidbey Island
Members or others represented: 1000+
Coupeville Community Allies (CCA) organized following the Navy’s release of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) in November 2016. Its early goal was to inform the community about the content of the DEIS and to encourage written responses to the Navy.
Following that early work, CCA has continued to organize, provide more information to the community about the impact of the Growler expansion through community forums and fact sheets, encourage community mobilization, and engage with elected representatives about the need to limit Navy growth.
Area Served: Central Whidbey
Members or others represented: 700+
The Quiet Skies Group formed in 2013, and is comprised of citizens and residents of San Juan County, Washington, who are concerned about excessive and disruptive noise in our skies due to the placement of EA-18G Growler jets at Naval Air Station Whidbey.
Quiet Skies is working toward the reduction fly-over noise in San Juan County, carrier approach control training, and other jet operations.
Area Served: San Juan County, Washington
Members or others represented: 500+
Evergreen Islands focuses on “monitoring and supporting the responsible enforcement of local, state, and national laws that protect the environment, specifically the environmental protections contained in municipal comprehensive plans and policies, municipal and county shoreline programs, the Washington State Growth Management Act (GMA), the Washington State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA), the Washington State Shoreline Management Act (SMA), Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).”
Area Served: Skagit County, Washington
Supporters of the Alliance
Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action
Marrowstone Island Concerned Citizens (MICC)
National Parks Conservation Association, (NPCA)
The Next Generation Action Alliance
Protect Olympic Peninsula (POP)
The Sierra Club, North Olympic Group
The Sustainable Economy Collaborative (SEC)
Veterans for Peace (Bellingham)
Washington Environmental Council, (WEC)
Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility
Join our Team
Our team is comprised of passionate staff, volunteer, and board activists, environmentalists, farmers, parents, health professionals, researchers, and more. We are all committed to a quieter, safer, region that prioritizes preservation, health, and well-being for all people and animals.