WHO WE ARE
AltaSea Leadership
Terry Tamminen
Charmian Hauck
Jenny Cornuelle Krusoe
Terry Tamminen
From his youth in Australia to career experiences in Europe, Africa, China and across the United States, Terry has developed expertise in business, farming, education, non-profit, the environment, the arts, and government. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed him Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency and later Cabinet Secretary, the Chief Policy Advisor to the Governor, where Terry was the architect of many groundbreaking sustainability policies, including California’s landmark Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, the Hydrogen Highway Network, and the Million Solar Roofs initiative. In 2010 Terry cofounded the R20 Regions of Climate Action, a new public-private partnership, bringing together sub national governments; businesses; financial markets; NGOs; and academia to implement measurable, large-scale, low-carbon and climate resilient economic development projects that can simultaneously solve the climate crisis and build a sustainable global economy. He also provides advice through 7th Generation Advisors to Pegasus Capital Advisors, the Green Climate Fund and numerous global businesses on sustainability and “green” investing, as well as assisting governments and philanthropists with climate solutions, including Fiji, India, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. An accomplished author, Terry’s books include “Cracking the Carbon Code: The Keys to Sustainable Profits in the New Economy” (Palgrave Macmillan). In 2011, Terry was one of six finalists for the Zayed Future Energy Prize and The Guardian ranked Terry No. 1 in its “Top 50 People Who Can Save the Planet.”
Charmian Hauck
Charmian is a hands-on Chief Financial Officer with more than 20 years of expertise in the non-profit sector. She is a lifelong San Pedro resident, mom of two young adults and two dogs, and is passionate about the ocean and environmental causes.
She began her finance career in public accounting and transitioned to the world of corporate finance where she successfully managed the accounting departments of $5 to $500 million companies across various industries. Charmian has served as Chief Financial Officer for many prominent Los Angeles area non-profits, becoming known for creating solutions to process inefficiencies, upgrading systems, building strong teams and streamlining accounting functions.
Charmian is a graduate of the Chadwick School and Marymount College in Palos Verdes. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from Loyola Marymount University as well as being a licensed Certified Public Accountant. Charmian has served as a member of the Amazon Business Customer Advisory Board for the nonprofit sector and as a member of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America CFO Roundtable. Currently, she is on the board of Nonprofits Insurance Alliance where she also serves on the audit committee.
Jenny Cornuelle Krusoe
Jenny Cornuelle Krusoe is Executive Vice President and COO of AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles, California. She is a graduate of Harvard University and completed a fellowship in nonprofit management at the Stanford University School of Business. A California native and resident, Jenny has a national reputation as a nonprofit executive with expertise in public private partnerships and financially sustainable strategic planning. Skilled at stabilizing and restoring financial viability to a wide array of nongovernmental organizations, she has raised hundreds of millions of dollars to support the ocean, and for the past 10 years, has focused her work on developing a global network to support the future ocean-based economy, mariculture and blue technology. Jenny is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and has served on numerous advisory groups, including the University of Southern California Sea Grant, the Blue Action Lab, the Alliance for SoCal Innovation, and the Pacific Aquaculture Center of Excellence. She is this year’s recipient of Los Angeles’ City of STEM Icon Award for her work in developing pathways to well-paying careers in the blue economy and previously received the Spirit of Los Angeles Award, one of the city’s highest mayoral honors.
AltaSea Team
Frances Arrecis
Robin Aube
Natasha Berendzen
Daniel Brumer
Meredith Brooks
Dorothy Valerie Cardenas
Alex Cornejo
Rosa Delgado
Kim Ellis
Walter Flores
Alan Hill
Michelle Raymond
Angie Reed
Emily Vidovich
Seasonal Instructor
Frances Arrecis
I studied at Cal Poly Pomona and received a B.S. in Environmental Biology with a focus in biodiversity, conservation, and ecology. I am passionate about our environment and educating our youth to help support it. I worked at my campus’ ethnobotanical garden and rainforest throughout my entire college career where I became familiar with plants native to Southern California. I maintained these plants while educating school groups/visitors on how important these plants contributed to native’s daily life (specifically on Tongva land). I also worked at our vivarium, taking care of reptiles, amphibians, and fish. I currently work for a children’s science museum where I teach science enriched programs in a classroom, workshop, and assembly setting as well as write curriculum. I hope to always educate our youth on how important our ecosystems are and how we can support them.
Director of Advancement
Robin Aube
Robin Aube is the Director of Advancement at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles. She grew up in San Pedro and has been a member of the innovative ocean and marine science campus for six years managing Project Blue, AltaSea’s education program, serves as the foundation grant writer and as the Board of Trustees liaison. She is also responsible for planning and implementing special events at AltaSea, such as, the quarterly Open Houses. Robin has played a key role in the capital campaign and with donor relations. She is a graduate of CSUDH holding a Bachelor of Science degree in Clinical Science with an emphasis in Nuclear Medicine and a Master’s degree in Business Administration.
Director of Advancement Services
Natasha Berendzen
Natasha Berendzen is Director of Advancement Services at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles. Prior to joining AltaSea, she was Development Manager at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point, California and Prospect Research Manager at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, playing an integral role in capital campaign efforts. She was also part of a mother-daughter team that created the nonprofit networking groups Women of Washingon, Women of Los Angeles, Women of Orange County and Women of Pasadena.
Natasha received her M.B.A. from California State University, Long Beach and a B.A. with honors in Anthropology from Boston University.
Partner, Brumer Law Group and AltaSea Legal Counsel
Daniel Brumer
Daniel Brumer is a partner at Brumer Law Group where he represents public and private companies, real estate developers, equity investors and lenders in a variety of transactions involving acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, development, joint ventures, land title, and debt and equity financings. He regularly advises clients on local government and public affairs, providing strategic counsel on complex political, regulatory, land use, and other matters involving state and local government in California.
Daniel was previously a senior advisor to Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Krekorian, responsible for all land use and economic development matters, and a planning and land use deputy to former Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge. He started his legal career as an attorney at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, the oldest law firm in Los Angeles, where he represented public and private companies in mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, financings, and other corporate transactions.
Daniel received his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 2007, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a James Kent Scholar for high academic honors, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Maryland in 2002, where he was named to the Distinguished Dean’s List and a member of the University’s Burns Academy of Leadership. He is also a past founding Director and Corporate Secretary of Crown Preparatory Academy, a Los Angeles Unified School District public charter school, and a licensed California real estate broker.
Senior Program and Grants Manager (Consultant)
Meredith Brooks
Meredith Brooks is the Senior Program and Grants Manager (Consultant) at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles. She is developing the AltaSea Marine Grants program to expand the portfolio of government grants, with a focus on STEM education, aquaculture and growing the Blue Economy in Los Angeles.
Originally from Rancho Palos Verdes, Meredith now splits her time between the Olympic Peninsula, RPV, and Hawai’i, where she has spent the last decade helping manage one of the USDA Regional Aquaculture Centers. She has fifteen years of management and communication experience in the fields of sustainable aquaculture R&D and conservation, and has authored two K-12 STEM curriculums for Hawai’i schools. Meredith graduated from the University of Southern California with Bachelors Degrees in Political Science and Journalism, and is a member of the Lambda Pi Eta honor society of the National Communication Association.
Program and Community Outreach Coordinator
Dorothy Valerie Cardenas
Dorothy Cardenas is the Program and Community Outreach Coordinator at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles. Prior to joining AltaSea, Dorothy provided crucial administrative support within the film and property management industries. Working in the film industry she coordinated and oversaw budget costs within multiple television series in ABC Studios, CBS Television, NBC Universal, and 20th Century Fox Studios. Dorothy has led the fundraising committees within grassroots community organizations and coordinated logistics for live events. She received her Bachelor’s degree from California State University, Long Beach in English Literature.
Senior Manager of Communications
Alex Cornejo
Alex Cornejo is the Senior Manager of Communications at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles. Prior to joining AltaSea, he was the Director of Communications at Strength Based Community Change (SBCC), a nonprofit in Wilmington where he helped in shaping the brand and identity of the agency. He was also part of the Rotary International of Wilmington where he continued to give back to the community. Equipped with an A.A. in Communications and Media Studies from Long Beach City College, Alex has honed his skills in digital marketing, fundraising, and nonprofit marketing through specialized certificates. Beyond his professional pursuits, his passion for photography, cultivated since high school, has become a powerful tool for capturing and sharing the untold stories of individuals.
Alex believes that everyone has a remarkable narrative waiting to be shared, and he is driven to amplify those voices through the art of film and photography.
Bookkeeper
Rosa Delgado
Rosa Delgado is the Bookkeeper at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles. She is a Southern California native and has been working in the Nonprofit sector for over 20 years. During her time at the National Audubon Society, specifically The Audubon Center at Debs Park, her love for nature conservation blossomed. As an administrative assistant, she helped in the day-to-day duties while the nature center was being built, which was to be the first LEED Platinum certified building in the country. Rosa also held the roles of volunteer coordinator and office manager during her time at Audubon. Most recently, as staff accountant at the Institute for Nonprofit News, she handled the fiscal sponsorship accounting for 20 plus small nonprofit newsrooms.
Database and Research Manager
Kim Ellis
Kim Ellis is the Database and Research Manager at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles. With her experience in the non-profit and higher education sectors, she provides valuable research to support fundraising efforts and ensures data integrity within the database. Before joining AltaSea, she worked in development at Cal State LA, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. She holds a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University and a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the University of California, San Diego.
Facilities Manager
Walter Flores
Education Program Manager
Alan Hill
Alan Hill is the Education Program Manager at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles. He is originally from Wales and has lived in the South Bay for 25 years. He has been an educator for 35 years. After completing B.Ed. degree at University of Wales, he began developing his teaching experience at schools and outdoor centers in the UK. A professional development scholarship took him to Prescott College in Arizona to learn more about experiential education. He moved to the US permanently in 1992 to work for Prescott College. He traveled to Anchorage, Alaska to take an adjunct faculty position at the University of Alaska and within a couple of years had assumed the position of Assistant Coordinator of the Alaska Wilderness Studies program at UAA. While at University of Alaska he completed his M.Ed. specializing in Curriculum Development. In 1997 he moved to Palos Verdes to take the position of Director, Outdoor Education at Chadwick School where he built and developed a robust curriculum for the Outdoor Education Program and assisted in developing the Outdoor Education Program at Chadwick International in Songdo, South Korea.
Executive Administrator
Michelle Raymond
Michelle Raymond is Executive Administrator at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles. She has extensive experience developing client research solutions for business planners. Michelle has been a lifelong volunteer starting with Beach Watch protecting the tidepools at Abalone Cove in Palos Verdes. Her nonprofit experience includes being a board member with the Junior League of San Francisco as Vice President and as Community Programs Director. Michelle’s passions include giving the ocean a voice in our sustainable future, sailing, and traveling. She is a graduate of USC holding a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.
Operations Manager
Angie Reed
Angie Reed is the Operations Manager at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles. She is a lifelong San Pedro resident and with that comes a natural connection to the ocean and marine life. Angie raised her college age son in San Pedro with the same deep connection to our coastal waters. She has 20+ years’ experience in the non-profit sector with roles both in finance and operations. She began her finance career in accounts payable and quickly expanded to roles including accounts receivable, grant revenue and staff accounting before moving into operations for organizations with $1 to 9 million budgets.
As Operations Manager, Angie led her organization through two natural disasters and served as project manager for a construction rebuild. She also managed the response to the recent pandemic for her organization, ensuring seamless transition to virtual operations. As well as spearheaded digitization efforts which allowed the organization to not miss a beat in serving their mission. She managed a 45-unit multi-family dwelling in Koreatown that served as transitional housing for the unhoused as well as women and children fleeing human trafficking.
Angie’s heart has remained with the non-profit sector as her main driving force is to be a conduit for good and to be part of the effort to enhance the lives of the communities in which she serves. Her key responsibilities at Alta Sea will allow her to serve that personal mission.
Communications and Development Coordinator
Emily Vidovich
Emily received her BA in Art History with a minor in Journalism & Mass Communications from George Washington University in 2019. During college, she was a correspondent for the environmental journalism platform PlanetForward. Prior to joining AltaSea in 2021, she completed internships at the Natural Resources Defense Council, where she specialized in internal sustainability and carbon pricing, and Heal the Bay, where she monitored Marine Protected Areas. She also served weekly as an animal care volunteer at the Marine Mammal Care Center Los Angeles. Emily is currently pursuing an MA in Global Environmental Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan.
