Executive Committee & Program Leads
Our Executive Committee
Volunteer Coordinator
Chelsea Noack
Chelsea Noack is an editor at Oxford University Press and science writing master’s graduate from Johns Hopkins University. While her passions lie in making science engaging and fun, you can also find her doing yoga, boogie boarding, cooking, or walking aimlessly in San Francisco’s beautiful landscapes.
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Vice Chair
Matt Huntington
Matt is a brand marketer and avid outdoorsman. He loves to surf at Ocean Beach, fly fish the streams of Northern California, snowboard in Tahoe, and looks forward to tropical surf travel.
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Blue Water Task Force Lead & Executive Committee Member
Drew Madsen
Drew is a longboard aficionado from San Diego, CA currently living in the Outer Richmond. He spearheaded and manages Surfrider San Francisco's first volunteer-run water quality testing program, the Blue Water Task Force, with co-lead, Yasmine El-Hage.
When he's not surfing at Ocean Beach, the south end of Linda Mar, or Bolinas, he spends his time playing music, taking photographs, creating surf edits and other video projects, writing, enjoying coffee, and practicing yoga.
Our Program Leaders
Blue Water Task Force Lead
Yasmine El-Hage
Yasmine is a kite-surfer, Bay swimmer, and public health researcher who focuses on the relationships between human health and the health of our planet. She has worked with the UN, the International Rescue Committee, and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and is currently researching community science efforts in oil spill-affected coastal communities across the Americas.
Of South American and Middle Eastern roots, born and raised in the Bay, she can't wait to highlight more of our diverse Bay Area community perspectives and languages in our work towards environmental health equity.
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Media Lead
Thea Forrester
Born in San Francisco, raised in Marin, Thea is proud to call San Francisco home. As an avid surfer, Thea is passionate about protecting our oceans and coastlines for the enjoyment of everyone.
A brand marketer in the hotel & restaurant industry by trade, Thea is excited to bring her skills in social media, partnerships + events, community building, branding and marketing to the media role at Surfrider San Francisco.
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Member At Large
Geraldyne Masson
Geraldyne is a French ocean and nature lover who lives in the Outer Sunset of San Francisco. When she's not creating candles and crafts for her small business, she loves hiking the beautiful trails of the Bay Area, taking surf trips to Linda Mar, Santa Cruz and Bolinas, and enjoying Ocean Beach, especially at sunset!
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Member At Large
Chase Davenport
Chase is an Ocean Beach-obsessed surfboard builder, researcher, writer, and peanut butter enthusiast. For the past 8 years, he has split his time between surfboard building and earth science research. Chase has shaped surfboards in the Outer Sunset for longer than he ever expected to, first at Sunset Shapers and more recently at Hess Surfboards. He's now pursuing a degree in coastal science and get's pretty fired up about sand management.
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Member At Large
Michael O'Herron
Michael grew up in Colorado but always looked forward to trips to the ocean, and moved to SF after graduating to be closer to Big Blue. He thinks he's a poor surfer, but that doesn't stop him from trying, and he loves to work with friends to protect and expand access to the beaches he loves.
Our Program Leaders
Ocean Friendly Gardens Lead
Jane Lew
Our Program Leaders
Ocean Friendly Gardens Lead
Marley Salangsang
Originally from Southern CA, Marley made the move to San Francisco in 2020 and immediately fell in love with the outdoors of the Bay Area. The Bay has deepened her appreciation for sustainability and environmental stewardship.
Through her love of surfing, sailing, climbing, gardening and camping, she's discovered the importance of living harmoniously with the planet and strives to incorporate eco-friendly practices into every aspect of her life.
Our Program Leaders
Message in a Bottle - Art & Education
Debra Leow
Debra connected with Surfrider at an Ocean Beach Clean Up in 2015 and discovered her tribe of passionate, fun, smart, enthusiastic, committed, earth loving activists. As an artist and parent, the Message in a Bottle Art and Education Program resonated deeply with her. Her goals for the program are to empower artists and creators, wee and elder, to express their love for the ocean, our need to protect it and to educate and inspire the public into action.
Debra loves birds and hates plastic. She's passionate about textile reuse and raising awareness about microfiber pollution. She can be found outdoors, indulging in all things creative, traveling and doom-scrolling. And she well knows that the only antidote for doom-scrolling is pushing up your sleeves and diving into some environmental champion action.
Most importantly, Debra believes in leaving this beautiful planet we share better than we found it.
Our Program Leads
Hold On To Your Butts Program Lead
Hyla Wallis
Hyla is a Michigan-native, California-convert who loves hiking, biking and generally exploring the outdoors. She has been a long-time volunteer with Surfrider and is a passionate participant in various service groups in SF. Professionally, she has worked in People/Talent Operations (Tech) for over a decade+ and is excited to apply her program and project management expertise to Surfrider.
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Plastic Pollution - Shotgun Wad Watchers
Anna Kauffman
Anna is a data driven environmental activist tracking plastic shotgun wads in the wild. #wadwatcher