Board of Directors
Jamie Banks
Founder, President, and Quiet Landcare Chair
Jamie Banks, PhD, MSc, is Founder and President of Quiet Communities. She is a health care and environmental scientist with an extensive background in health outcomes and economics, behavior change, and policy who brings a multi-faceted perspective to her work. During her career, she held senior positions at leading consulting firms, working with the healthcare industry. In 2007, she turned her attention to environmental health and founded Quiet Communities in 2013 to promote the value of quiet and work to reduce harmful noise and pollution. In addition to her role at Quiet Communities, she chairs the Noise & Health Committee of the American Health Association (APHA) where she led the development of APHA’s 2021 policy statement, Noise as a Public Health Hazard, is a member of the American Heart Association and International Society of Environmental Epidemiology, and participates in the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Noise. Jamie is an author of several peer review publications and is a presenter at scientific conferences. She earned her PhD from the University of Kent (UK) and Master’s degrees from Dartmouth Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Tricia Glass
Executive Director
Tricia Glass, MSJ, is Executive Director of Quiet Communities, where she brings a combination of experience as a journalist and seasoned nonprofit leader to the fight against noise pollution. Early in her career she worked as a reporter, including time at Reuters and UPI, developing instincts she has carried into two decades of nonprofit work advancing causes at the intersection of environment, community, and social impact.
She has advised and led a wide range of organizations, serving on the board of the Oceanside Conservation Trust of Casco Bay, as vice president of Sustainable Wellesley, and as an executive board member at Boston-based Tenacity, where she helped transform the organization's signature fundraiser from gala to tennis tournament. She was a founding board member of Beyond the 11th, TentED, and Razia's Ray of Hope, and has held staff roles at ARZU Studio Hope in Chicago and The Steppingstone Foundation in Boston. She is an occasional contributor to The Boston Globe.
Tricia holds a Master's from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a BA from Colby College.
Anne Hollander
Board Secretary
Anne Hollander is a community organizer and environmental and public health advocate. She is a founder, past president, and currently vice president of the Montgomery County Quiet Skies Coalition where she works with aviation-impacted residents, local and state elected officials, members of Congress, the FAA, and other quiet skies groups regionally and around the country to find solutions to the noise, public health, and environmental hazards caused by aircraft operations at Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) and around the country. Anne is also a founding member of the Aviation-Impacted Communities Alliance, a group working for changes in legislation and industry practices in the U.S. to mitigate harms from aircraft noise. Anne has worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Conservation Foundation, and Resolve, an environmental mediation group. She has also led a variety of school- and community-based initiatives focused on the education and healthy development of children and families. Anne holds an MA degree from the Stanford University Food Research Institute, where she focused on environmental food policy and economics, and a BA in International Public Policy focusing on the intersection of environmental issues, economics, and ethics.