2025
Proposed Slate of Board Directors

As a Save the Sound member, you are eligible to vote at the Annual Meeting on November 2, 2025, at the Larchmont Yacht Club (in person by show of hands).

If you are unable to attend, you may submit a proxy ballot by Thursday, October 30 (see below).

Chip Angle was a consultant for Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, serving as Acting Chief Financial Officer and then Acting Vice President of Development from 1997 to 2000.  From 1994 to 1997 he was Vice President of Development and Communications for Save the Children.  Prior to moving to the not-for-profit sector, Mr. Angle worked in various capacities at Time Inc. from 1967 to 1994, including Senior Vice President—Operations & Chief Administrative Officer; Vice President–Consumer Marketing; Associate Publisher of Time Magazine; and General Manager of Sports Illustrated. Mr. Angle received an AB from Harvard College, served in the U.S. Navy, and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.

He was Founding Chair of the Shoreline Greenway Trail and still serves on that Board.  He served on the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy Board from 1992 to 2019, as Chair for two years and Treasurer for six.  In addition, he served on the Boards of Big Brothers/Big Sisters NYC; Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation NYC; Direct Marketing Association; and St. George’s School.

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Camila Bustos is an Assistant Professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. Her scholarship focuses on human rights and environmental law. Prior to joining Pace, Professor Bustos was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Human Rights at Trinity College and a Clinical Supervisor in human rights practice at the University Network for Human Rights. She also served as a term law clerk to Justice Steven D. Ecker of the Connecticut Supreme Court and as a consultant with the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP).

Camila is a graduate from Yale Law School, where she received the Francis Wayland Prize and was a Switzer Foundation Fellow and a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. During law school, she worked at the Center for Climate Integrity, the Climate Litigation Network, and EarthRights International. Camila also co-founded Law Students for Climate Accountability, a national law student-led movement pushing the legal industry to phase out fossil fuel representation and support a just, livable future. Prior to law school, she worked as a human rights researcher at the Center for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia) in Colombia.

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Raphael Elkind has spent most of his life in service to young people and their families as a foster care social worker, a camp counselor for The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for children with life limiting illnesses, a middle school teacher at New Canaan Country School and a literacy specialist for Horizons, a program that aims to close the opportunity and achievement gaps between low-income students and their more fortunate peers.  Currently, he works as an Executive Functions/Life Coach and tutor for students of all ages. 

Mr. Elkind earned his B.A. in sociology from SUNY New Paltz and an M.S. in education from the University of Bridgeport in CT.  He also did graduate work in economics and political economy at The Graduate Faculty of The New School for Social Research.  A current resident of Westport, CT, he supports Save the Sound because of the breadth of its work, its track record in finding environmental solutions and because no other local organization has a toolbox as extensive as ours at its disposal to protect our region’s air, land and water.

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Celia A. Felsher retired from her position as Chief Operating Officer and Partner of Reservoir Capital Group, an investment management firm based in New York, at the beginning of 2018. Ms. Felsher originally joined Reservoir in 1998 as General Counsel. Prior to joining Reservoir, Ms. Felsher was an attorney at Milbank Tweed, Hadley & McCoy (now Milbank LLP), which she joined following graduation from Columbia University Law School in 1979. She became a Partner in the Corporate Department at Milbank in 1988. Ms. Felsher received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1976.

Ms. Felsher is passionate about the work Save the Sound is doing to protect our environment and ensure that future generations have access to open space and natural resources, as well as its important work on climate change. She enjoys working with an extremely dedicated and talented staff and board. Ms. Felsher also is President and serves on the Board of Directors of Touch Foundation, an NGO focused on improving access to health care in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ms. Felsher was a member of the Board of Education in Mamaroneck, New York, from 2000 – 2006, serving as President of the School Board from 2004 – 2006.

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Mary Ellen Kranzlin has an MBA from Columbia University and B.A. in English with a minor in History from the University of Virginia. Before becoming a mother of five, Ms. Kranzlin worked in marketing for Proctor and Gamble and in the marketing division of advertising at Saatchi & Saatchi and the former SSC&B:Lintas. With her cousins, she runs the Bunting Family Foundation. She is both a trustee for Save the Sound and a member of their Soundkeeper Task Force.

Ms. Kranzlin serves on the Board of Alderton House, which provides religious, cultural, and social activities for women. She is in her third term as Board Member at Seven Acres Montessori in Wilton, CT.  She is a Trustee for Oakcrest School. Ms. Kranzlin has been an active volunteer at her children’s various schools. She has taught religion to children of all ages at her church since 2000. She also teaches at mini-retreats and classes tor women. She is a co-leader of the Walking with Purpose Bible Study program at her church. She loves cooking, gardening, swimming, photography and hanging out with her family.

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Bruni Pizarro is a graduate of the Yale School of the Environment, where she received a Master’s in Environmental Science and completed her undergraduate degree at Vanderbilt University. Ms. Pizarro’s recent scholarship and advocacy centers on climate change-induced disaster, colonialism and the impact of forced migration on displaced Puerto Rican women. Her scholarly work and professional experience explore how American urban inequality and the built environment shape the lived experience of Black & Latinx communities.

Most recently, she was on the Environment & Climate Change Committee of the Transition Team for New Haven’s Mayor, Justin Elicker. Prior to Yale, she worked as a Research Assistant on an ethnobotanical study at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) where she focused on the cultural knowledge of medicinal plants of Latinx and Caribbean communities in New York City. Through her research and advocacy, Ms. Pizarro hopes to bring forth a racialized and class-based understanding of the downstream effects of disasters on oppressed communities of color.  She intends to share her unique perspectives and lived experiences to support the growing environmental justice work at Save the Sound.

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Alison Cupp Relyea is a writer and educator. She holds a BS in Psychology with a minor in Art History from Cornell University and an MSEd in Museum Education from Bank Street College. Ms. Relyea is a founding member of Watershed, a literary festival in Rye, NY, and of pRYEde, a nonprofit community group. She taught elementary school for many years in New York City before moving to Rye, where she worked at the Rye Historical Society as the Director of Education and Programming.

During her time at the Rye Historical Society, Ms. Relyea curated an exhibit called Rye: A Coastal Community, which explored the relationship between the town and the environment over time, beginning with the Lenape. This, along with some community activism focused on preservation of greenspaces, renewed her interest in marine ecology and estuary science. Ms. Relyea spends a lot of time in the Long Island Sound and is committed to the work that Save the Sound does to protect this vital natural resource.

Ms. Relyea is a contributing writer for the Rye Record and an adjunct writing professor at St. Thomas Aquinas College. She published an essay collection called Soundtrack and has published work in many online publications. Ms. Relyea is a 2023 recipient of the Port Chester-Rye NAACP Freedom Award and has served on the board of the YMCA.

Current Board Members

If you are unable to attend the Annual Meeting, please vote by completing the proxy ballot below by October 30.