Bill is president of Sustainable San Rafael, which advocates for the rapid implementation of the San Rafael Climate Action Plan. He is a founding board member of MarinCAN, a countywide public/private initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 60% by 2030 and below net zero by 2045. He served on the San Rafael General Plan 2040 Steering Committee, chaired the City’s Citizens Advisory Committee on Economic Development and Affordable Housing, and co-chairs the Time to Lead on Climate coalition. As a landscape architect, Bill managed the design and construction of Yerba Buena Gardens for the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. He is past president of San Francisco Friends of the Urban Forest, finance chair of Yerba Buena Arts & Events, and helped launch the Museum of the African Diaspora. His publications include Cities, a nuclear peace poem, and Mountain, An Evolutionary Epic. He holds a Masters of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning from UC Berkeley.