Meet the team

Pamela is a retired architect whose early work with a California firm focused on urban design, public use, and multi use architecture. Her team projects included a YMCA for Berkeley; a waterfront development for Milwaukee; a mosque and community center in Jubail, Saudi Arabia; and the Portland Performing Arts Center in Oregon, which won the prestigious Progressive Architecture Award in 1984. 

 

In 1991, Pamela moved to East Hampton, where she worked solo on residential and commercial projects until retiring in 2016. Since then, she has devoted herself to pro bono projects, and is currently working on the design of a purpose built home for L’Arche of Southern Vermont. She also serves on the Town’s Property Management Committee and is a delegate of the East Hampton Town Democratic Committee. 

 

“I was raised in a home where public service was part of life. My father volunteered as an accountant for the United Way of Southern New Jersey, and my mother put in many hours for several local charitable organizations. The idea of helping others — and of being useful — was rooted in me during childhood.”

 

Pamela joined Springs Food Pantry in 2011 and has volunteered ever since. Her work involves liaising with and receiving deliveries from the two food banks, Island Harvest and Long Island Cares. She also orders canned and dry goods from a food purveyor and from Costco. She keeps the pantry rooms stocked and organized, and creates the menu each week in order to ensure a healthy variety of food products.

 

“I derive great joy from Springs Food Pantry and the enormous teamwork involved. We have never closed our doors, not even during the pandemic.”