Testimonials

Susan Clark
TSRA Board Member and Chair 1991-1997
The Sea Ranch Foundation Chair 1990 – present
Sea Ranch Lifetime Service Award 2022
Sea Rancher of the Year

“My 40 years at Sea Ranch, including six years on the Board, have taught me that we need highly knowledgeable, very intelligent, calmly persuasive, not strident Directors. One does not understand Sea Ranch overnight. Gina Hubbell’s intellect and charm complement her 50+ years of knowledge about the Ranch. Gina is a valuable custodian of TSR’s origins and values. Gina’s respectful but firm style, and sense of humor, will speed the Board’s calm consideration of complex issues.

In my lifetime, we have never had a better Community manager than Menka Sethi. Gina understands the importance to a Board of a terrific Community Manager. She will spend long hours focusing the work of the Board and supporting the retention of Menka.

Gina’s election holds open the promise of stability in TSR’s governance.”

Diane Hichwa
Sea Rancher of the Year 2022

“I welcome Gina’s depth of appreciation for the ecology of The Sea Ranch. This is strengthened over time by her long experience with this place. Her management skills, financial experience and ability to listen carefully and hear someone’s perspective before forming opinions make her a strong candidate whom I support for our Board of Directors.”

Kathy Rosskopf
Trustee, Family Foundation

"I’m a quiet TSRA member who studies TSRA Director Candidates and their Statements and web-sites very closely. Gina does not present the usual campaign fluff. Her impressive web-site details her perspectives on multiple issues with candor and grace. She fully responds even to groups with opposing views. The four words I most often hear about her are “really brilliant” and “really nice.” She has our votes.”

Susan Sandoval
Former Member Point Arena School Board

“I am whole heartedly supporting Gina Hubbell in her quest for a Board seat. Gina is a highly competent attorney and financier -- skills apparently very much needed. But these are not my main reasons for supporting her. Those are more personal. We both are dedicated to preserving the beautiful and unique natural environment in which we live. Neither of us came here to make the area something different; we came to revel in the beauty that surrounds us. Gina’s approach as a Board member is to insure that there is an environmental component to Board decisions, that is, that the impact on and value of the environment is one of the factors that is omni-present in Board deliberations. This perspective is vital to the continuance of the natural glory in which we live.”

Roland Pesch
TSR Central Forest Committee 2015
Trustee, The Sea Ranch Foundation 2021-24

"Gina, the outstanding finance person and attorney, the exceptionally calm, often humorous candidate, will move us forward to address old challenges and see new possibilities. She’s someone who knows TSR’s history and its values, who rejects the recent politics of division, and who in collaboration with our Community Manager, Menka Sethi, will support open, friendly, good governance."

Sandra Hughes
Leader, 2015, Save TSR Forest

“My votes are going to Gina because she is trustworthy. Her answers to questions are heartfelt and honest; not just what she thinks people want to hear. Gina is thoughtful, appreciates data relating to the size and importance of a problem, does her research and weighs the impact of different solutions before making decisions. She also listens enthusiastically to all views and is willing to change her mind. While highly capable, Gina has humility together with a sense of humor that is sure to bring smiles from time-to-time. Her dog will agree with me - she is the best!”

Bob Ramers
Member, The Sea Ranch Finance Committee
Member, Coastal Seniors Board Member

“Our brilliant Community Manager Menka Sethi has a solid financial background and has worked hard to eliminate unnecessary expenses while improving and modernizing operations. She needs the support of an equally intelligent individual on the Board with complementary financial expertise. Gina’s financial background would fit well. She has a deep understanding of finance and budgeting. She will be able to see where we can cut costs, such as infrastructure financing, without sacrificing essential services, to help prevent unnecessary increases in our annual assessment. She is fully committed to our community, frequently preparing descriptions for various committees on current issues. Gina has over 50 years of watching TSR, over 30 years of owning a home, and over 4 years of living here full-time.”

Alice Jones
Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, and Poet
KwanLam Wong
Architect and Essayist

“Gina, the highly successful finance person and lawyer, is quite well known. Gina’s deep interest in the arts may not be as well known here. She’s a former Director of the American Composers Orchestra, a pianist, a collector of art, and an amateur artist. She believes we need the arts at TSR (at no TSRA expense) to lift our collective spirits. An exceptionally diplomatic, calm person, with a quick sense of humor, Gina will elevate the atmosphere of Board meetings.”

Ronnie Sharpe
Member, Posh Squash
Volunteer, Native Plant Garden
Volunteer, Redwood Coast Humane Society

“Gina is the candidate who can manage our current fiscal and environmental issues. Gina is the only candidate who has a background in both finance and law and who has the integrity, experience, and knowledge to make informed financial decisions and oversee spending. She’s determined to improve all residents’ lives and will not merely cater to a select few when their demands threaten the many. Gina will reunite us with a shared ecological vision for the whole community.”

Meri Issel

“I’ve voted for Gina at every opportunity and cannot comprehend why she’s not already on the board. I believe that Gina’s diverse and expansive experience in finance as well as non-profits has fully prepared her to be a valuable and trusted member of the TSR board of directors. She has well-thought-out suggestions and opinions on the issues that are important to all of us and she deserves the forum to participate.”

Barbara Leon

“A vote for Gina is a vote for true civility.”

Susan and Niel Silverman

“We found Gina to be approachable, level headed and with a great respect and love and concern for the Sea Ranch and with seemingly no personal agenda.”

Annie Pivarski

“I admire Gina’s perseverance and respect her thoughtfulness, civility and deep understanding of The Sea Ranch.”

Bingly, Rescue Dog

“Gina takes me everywhere on TSR. Now we’re hitting the campaign trail.

Vote for my best friend, Gina Hubbell, for TSRA Board of Directors!”