Posie Constable has island living in her blood. She is a twelfth-generation descendant of Hawaiian natives and Boston missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands. Posie grew up on Oahu, loving the ocean, but also spending endless afternoons getting her hands dirty while trailing both grandmothers around their gardens.
After spending a year abroad in Kobe, Japan and graduating from the University of Colorado, Posie earned an MBA and settled into a successful finance career in Manhattan. She finished a 30-year investment banking run as a Managing Director in Debt Capital Markets at Merrill Lynch before transitioning to the not-for-profit world.
Posie spent the past eight years as Director of Business Development in the nation’s first municipal green bank, the New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation. Working with local governments, community leaders, clean energy non-profits, as well as building owners, managers and contractors, Posie helped to fund all manner of clean energy projects, helping clients increase energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.
Posie joined her husband’s family in Nantucket beginning in mid-1980’s, and has been here for every season since then, finally buying a home in 2012. She is a past board member of Nantucket Community Sailing, served as co-chair of Nantucket Race Week in 2012, and currently sits on their Advisory Board. She is a former governor of the Nantucket Yacht Club, and serves on the Town’s Neighborhood First Advisory Committee.
An avid sailor and kiteboarder, Posie and her husband Bobby Constable are also fond of the bees in their four hives and riding motorcycles to new places across the US and beyond.
(posie@sustainablenantucket.org)
LeeAnne Richard
LeeAnne Richard is a tenth generation Nantucketer and is SN's longest serving staff member starting in 2010 until 2013 when she relocated to Los Angeles, California. LeeAnne returned to Nantucket at the end of 2015 and rejoined the staff in February of 2016. Before working at SN LeeAnne was the Office Manager for Dr. Paul Roberts from 1998-2001 and worked for the Nantucket Public Schools in various positions from 1988-1998. Her part-time position includes responsibility for office management, development assistant, data entry and maintenance, and being our staff's "go-to" person.
(leeanne@sustainablenantucket.org)
Calin Duke
Calin Duke is the Farm to School Manager and Grant Writer for Sustainable Nantucket. Before she was teaching future gardeners Calin took her Masters of Education overseas and was a classroom teacher for many years in fun places like India, Lebanon, Colombia and Hawai'i before learning that she was far too squirmy for classroom teaching. Since coming on board Sustainable Nantucket in 2017, Calin has been honored with the distinction of being one of 15 educators chosen from the state to be on the Massachusetts Farm to School Network Leadership Team. When not in the Farm to School Garden or her tiny house, you can find Calin and her dog enjoying the gorgeous outdoors of Nantucket.
Allie joined Sustainable Nantucket in May 2020 in a part-time capacity as the Market Manager. Since then, she has transitioned to the organization full-time, still managing the market and also as the Development Coordinator. After spending a few summers working on the island during her college years, she moved to Boston to pursue a career working as a public servant in the Massachusetts state government. She worked as a Policy Analyst in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and then later transitioned to be a Budget Analyst at the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. It is in these roles that she was able to learn more about the State's initiatives to support municipalities and local organizations advocating for an enhanced and more accessible local food infrastructure. The city left her longing for island life again, so after 4 years working for the State, she moved back to Nantucket as a year round resident in April 2017. Since then, she has only fallen deeper in love with the beauty of the island's landscape and community. She enjoyed a small stint working for SN in the Fall of 2017 and is very excited to come full circle by joining Sustainable Nantucket full-time. When she is not working at the market or on our development initiatives, you can find her on the beach enjoying the island's freshest oysters.
Dave Bossi
Dave is the president of the Nantucket Community Garden, conveniently located next door to our Community Farm Institute (aka Ballinger Farm). Last year a friend from another non-profit mentioned that we were looking for someone part-time to keep the Farm in order and the equipment running. Dave was the perfect candidate. Since he had just left a full-time job in a step toward retirement, he accepted Sustainable's part-time position.