Core Team Members

Core Leadership Team

Team Members	Roles	Bios
Robert Cordingley visiting White Sands	President Communications Team Lead Climate Technology Team Lead	In 1981 Robert Cordingley, wife Joan and two children Elizabeth and Christopher moved to Texas from the north of England. While living in Nassau Bay, TX, Robert and Joan welcomed their third child. After 33 years of service in the chemical industry Robert retired in 2003 as Chemical Engineering Fellow and as an in house Technology Consultant. Robert and Joan moved permanently to Santa Fe in 2009 where Robert started and ran a web development company for about 10 years. In 2019, Robert and friends formed the Santa Fe chapter of the international 350 organization. Robert claims to be an above average player of the ancient Asian game of Go, his main hobby.
Paul Biderman	Vice President Movie Screening Team Lead Weekly News Digest (WND) Team Member	Paul Biderman and his wife Ellen moved to New Mexico in 1970. Paul had just graduated NYU Law School after growing up in New York City, and went to work for the Legal Services Program for the Dine (Navajo) people, DNA Legal Services. After three years in this very different community, they decided to stay in New Mexico. Paul would be hired in 1976 by the young, newly elected Attorney General, Toney Anaya, as the first Assistant AG to serve full-time in the Consumer Protection Division. There he started the unit representing consumer interests in public utility rate proceedings, also teaching a seminar in consumer law as an adjunct faculty member at UNM School of Law. After serving under a succeeding AG, Jeff Bingaman, who named Paul director of the Consumer Division, he was appointed in 1983 to serve as Secretary of Energy and Minerals for Governor Anaya. In that role, he emphasized energy conservation and renewable development. After several years in private practice, Paul was hired in 1991 to start the Judicial Education Center at the Institute of Public Law in the Law School. During his 14 years in this role, the new program won national awards from the American Bar Association and the State Justice Institute for its broad range of offerings and its pioneering work in online judicial education programming. He was appointed director of the Institute of Public Law in 2005. After retiring from UNM in 2011, Paul soon joined a climate protection group, Citizens Climate Lobby. That group morphed into another, ultimately merging with 350 Santa Fe in 2020. Paul became vice-president of the 350 chapter, which he continues to serve today. Paul and Ellen live in Santa Fe. We have two adult sons, a daughter-in-law, and three grandchildren.
Jean Darling (gardening)	Secretary/Treasurer Movie Screening Team	Rev. Jean Siegfried Darling was born into a skeptical, scientific, politically active Unitarian Universalist household, passed through careers in computer science and television production, and came to ministry late. She formed New Garden Community Church (UU) in Chicago, and then served Peoples Church of Chicago for about ten years before moving to the Santa Fe area with her husband Ken. Now she is active in UU Santa Fe co-chairing the Environmental Justice Team, focusing on regenerative agriculture and ranching, and nurturing native plants at church and at home.
Jim Eagle	Board Member Education Team Lead WND Team Member	Dr. James (Jim) Eagle is a Professor Emeritus of Operations Research at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. His primary areas of research have been the military applications of operations research, especially in search and detection theory, applied probability, and military modeling. Dr. Eagle served as an officer in the U.S. Navy submarine force, retiring from the U.S. Naval Reserve as a captain in 1994. Under a Navy scholarship, he received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in Engineering-Economic Systems. At the Naval Postgraduate School, he has served as chairman of the Undersea Warfare Academic Group, chairman of the Systems Engineering Analysis Curriculum, chairman of the Department of Operations Research, and associate dean of faculty. His main hobbies are amateur astronomy and t’ai chi. He is currently active with the Santa Fe Star Gazers (a local group of amateur astronomers) and teaches t’ai chi at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe.
Maj-Britt Eagle
Matthew Hecht	Board Member WND Team Member	Matthew Hecht earned a PhD in physics from the University of Colorado. He went on to work at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and Los Alamos National Laboratory, from which he retired in 2019 after a career of work on the ocean side of climate modeling. He served as co-chair of the Ocean Model Working Group of one of the world’s leading climate models, the Community Earth System Model, and as an editor of the European Geosciences Union’s Ocean Science journal.
Steve Schmidt	WND Team Member