2025 GO LOCAL Board Election

Feb. 4, 2025

The 2025 Annual Board Election will be held at the Annual Member Gathering on March 26, 2025.

Learn more about the 2025 Annual Meeting (includes online ballot for member voting).

See bios of GO LOCAL's current (2024-2025) board members.

Review Board Roles and Responsiblities and GO LOCAL Co-op's bylaws here.


2025-2027 Nominees:

Janeen Murray (current board member)

Janeen Murray served the Director of Sonoma County GO LOCAL through from 2018-2024. In parallel, she managed Sustaining Technologies, LLC, a worker-owned and cooperatively-managed LLC that provides the media publishing and management for GO LOCAL. Janeen started out as a science teacher in Sonoma County public schools, inspiring a commitment to learning and sustainability in our youth. She then shifted over to experience the private sector, managing operations and marketing for locally owned businesses. After hours, you may come across her playing accordion around the county with The Hubbub Club street band, and she also serves on the board of the nonprofit Hubbub Music Society. 
 

Matt Reynolds (current board member)

Matt Reynolds decided at an early age that through entrepreneurship he could directly help people improve their lives. Matt is President and Co-founder of Indigenous Designs Corporation, a leading premium organic apparel brand and producer of hand-crafted fair trade clothing. INDIGENOUS is a leading global, sustainable-fashion brand that has led the way in today’s eco-fashion world. The company is committed to supporting fair trade values and indigenous artisan communities, investing in natural and organic fibers and environmentally friendly dyes, and to spreading the beauty of handmade eco-fashion. 
 
Matt and Indigenous Designs continue to be heavily involved in promoting sustainability in collaboration with the Organic Exchange, the OTA (Organic Trade Association), SVN,  BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies), Fashion Revolution Day, Triple Pundit, Worldways Social Media and B-Corporations. Matt continues to lead Indigenous Designs as a company immersed premium fair trade fashion as well as sustainability.

 

Mark Stohlman  (current board member)

Upon retiring from over 24 years of service in the United States Coast Guard and 14 of those years in Sonoma County, he settled in Sonoma County for good in 2007. Mark spent 11 years in hotel management, most recently at the Bodega Bay Lodge as Director of Rooms and Revenue and was GO LOCAL's Marketing Coordinator for 4 years and now supports GO LOCAL as a board member.

2025-2026 Nominee

Debbie Stohlman (current board member)

Debbie grew up in Sonoma County, wife to Mark Stohlman and mother to two beautiful daughters Julia and Rachel. She has been in the mortgage banking industry for over 28 years and a paid tax preparer for 20 of those years. Debbie served as GO LOCAL's bookkeeper, accounts receivable specialist, accounts payable, accounting coordinator for many years. Debbie's passion is volleyball, and her need to balance her inner compass is filled by recharging at Doran Beach for some serious (and seriously fun) doubles volleyball. Her love of volleyball also has her running her own volleyball tournaments and the volleyball ministry at her church.