Staff Directory
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Jack Ahern
Associate Planner
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Becky Baldwin
Office Manager
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Sarah Bollinger
Senior Planner
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Rich Clough
Office Support Specialist
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Jason Cooper
Planner
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Chloe Gross
Planner
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Todd Horner
Executive Director
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Terry Johnson
Senior Project Manager
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J. B. Mack
Assistant Director
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Henry Underwood
Senior Planner
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Becky Baldwin
Office Manager
[email protected](603) 357 0557
Becky carries out day-to-day office operations to support all program areas and administration, including financial management, overseeing correspondence and record keeping, preparing minutes for Board and Advisory Committee meetings, managing production, and logistical support for SWRPC’s varied activities. She is a NH native and brings to SWRPC over 25 years of municipal administrative support background having worked for the Town of Peterborough after receiving her B.A., in Executive Secretarial Studies from Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner, MA.
Sarah Bollinger
Senior Planner
A New Hampshire native, Sarah has worked in both municipal planning and private sector land use and development. Prior to her work in planning and land use, Sarah primarily worked in community development programming for middle school aged children. Sarah contributes to a variety of projects at SWRPC including hazard mitigation plan updates, master plan updates, and grant administration. She holds a B.A. In Geography, Planning and Outdoor Recreation from Keene State College.[email protected]
(603) 357 0557, ext. 20
Rich Clough
Office Support Specialist
[email protected](603) 357 0557
Rich performs many tasks for SWRPC, including traffic data collection support, basic IT support, database maintenance and a number of diverse day-to-day operations that interface with SWRPC’s program areas and administration. A native of New England, Rich has been in NH for over 5 decades and Keene since 1986. Rich graduated from Keene State College with a B.A. in History/Theater and a minor in Geography. Rich is blessed to be supported in life by his wife and their two cats.
Chloe Gross
Planner
[email protected](603) 357 0557, ext. 14
Chloe is involved in a variety of projects at SWRPC including the Monadnock Region ADU Design Challenge and Keene State College ADU Collaboration, Timber for Transit, Citizen Planner Peer-to-Peer Roundtables, Food Systems Assessment, Next Generation Transit Project, and various outreach activities. Chloe has also created website content on WordPress, updated datasets, and written blogs. One of the most exciting parts of Chloe’s job is to meet new stakeholders, connect resources across the state, and boost collaboration between local entities throughout the Monadnock Region. Originally from Deerfield, NH, Chloe holds a BS in Environmental Conservation and Sustainability from the University of New Hampshire. When not at work, she enjoys playing with her service dog, Benny, spending time outside, and thinking about forest management.
Todd Horner
Executive Director
[email protected](603) 357 0557
Hailing from southern Maine, Todd moved to the Monadnock Region in 2009 to pursue a career in agriculture, spending most of the next decade operating an organic farm in Peterborough, NH. His time farming instilled in him an interest in how people use, share, and relate to land and the resources it provides. That interest prompted a transition into the planning field, where he admittedly has less opportunity to get his hands literally dirty, but still finds himself digging into familiar issues: how we balance the productive use of land with its protection, how we organize our built communities upon the natural landscape, and how we can cooperate with one another to work towards shared prosperity. Todd manages and contributes to projects in a variety of program areas at SWRPC, including economic development, transportation, housing, and broadband planning. He holds a B.A. in English from Vassar College and a Master’s of Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Terry Johnson
Senior Project Manager
[email protected](603) 357 0557
Terry brings to SWRPC a passion for collaborating with community partners to create healthier people and places in the Monadnock Region and throughout the state. He has extensive experience working at the intersection of planning and public health and has built a 35-year track record leading projects that bring together partners across multiple sectors including planning, transportation, housing, economic development, food systems, public health, and healthcare. Terry provides leadership for SWRPC’s public health planning projects. He was awarded the NH Governor’s Council on Physical Activity and Health Outstanding Achievement Award in 2017 and graduated from the University of Louisiana with a B.S. in Health and Physical Education.
J. B. Mack
Assistant Director
[email protected](603) 357 0557
J. B. is originally from Maine and has lived and worked in New Hampshire since 2007. J. B. oversees and manages SWRPC’s Transportation Planning and Brownfields Assessment Programs. He holds a Master’s of Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. J. B. entered the field of planning after working in the social services field where his responsibilities were to help his low-income clients with challenges ranging from housing to transportation to employment to education to daycare. Before working at SWRPC, J. B. worked for 5 years at the Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission. J. B. is a member of the Board of the Keene Housing Kids Collaborative and the Keene Downtown Housing Corporation and former Chair of the Keene Housing Board of Commissioners.
Henry Underwood
Senior Planner
[email protected](603) 357 0557
Henry currently oversees Geographic Information Systems Assistance services at SWRPC and has participated in a variety of agency programs and initiatives including the development of the Greater Monadnock Public Health Network Community Health Improvement and Climate and Health Adaptation plans; an inventory of high-speed internet service in Southwest NH; oversight of road and stream crossing assessments, transportation research, and road surface management systems; and, map production, data collection, and analysis in support of local master plans, hazard mitigation planning, tax mapping, and resource-related projects. In the realm of broadband, he continues to provide administrative support to the Monadnock Broadband Group – an informal coalition of municipal officials, practitioners and other stakeholders with interest in understanding and coordinating relative to broadband issues in Southwest NH.