Board of Directors

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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.

Maria Becce

Director

Maria (Restivo) Becce is a QC Quiet American Skies team member. She is Chairperson of the LaGuardia Airport Committee and Co-Chair of the New York Community Aviation Roundtable (NYCAR), where she serves as a representative to Congresswoman Grace Meng and a former Community Liaison to New York City Councilmember Paul Vallone. A lifelong resident of Queens, she attended Queensborough Community College. She served as a Trustee of the Queens Historical Society, leading a multi‑year renovation of the gardens. She retired as an Officer of the Broadway‑Flushing Homeowners’ Association after more than thirty‑five years as a volunteer ensuring the recognition of Broadway-Flushing on the National Register of Historic Places. After a several year hiatus, Maria was re-elected Treasurer.

Maria began her career at Citibank, rising to Executive Assistant to the President and Chief Administrative Officer of Citicorp and Citibank. After seventeen years, she founded a consulting firm providing customized accounting services for high‑net‑worth individuals. She later joined Arden Asset Management, Inc. as Vice President of Corporate Accounting, and retired as Administrator for a Family Office in New York City. Maria was recognized by the Queens Civic Congress for decades of outstanding civic and community service, and has also devoted significant time to St. Andrew Avellino Church and School and served on the board of the Catholic Adoptive Parents Association (CAPA).

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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.