Raritan Headwaters Association (RHA), the region’s watershed watchdog, has welcomed three new members to its Board of Trustees, including the granddaughter of one of the organization’s founding members.
Sarah Dillon Soden of Basking Ridge, Kerry Haselton of Bernardsville, and Curt Viebranz of Chester Township joined the RHA board for three-year terms. Soden is the granddaughter of Sidney Dillon, a founding trustee of the Upper Raritan Watershed Association, one of RHA’s two parent organizations.
“We’re excited to have Sarah, Kerry and Curt as board members,” said Cindy Ehrenclou, executive director. “Their knowledge, experience and enthusiasm will all be invaluable in helping us carry out our clean water mission.”
Kerry Haselton
Haselton, a lifelong environmentalist and outdoor enthusiast, serves on the Bernardsville Environmental Commission and the Somerset County Open Space Committee. She and her family have been Raritan Headwaters members and active volunteers for many years. A graduate of Princeton University, she served as an associate manager with the Prudential insurance company and later worked for a local physical therapy practice. She played soccer in the Morris county senior soccer association for 17 years and has been a girls’ soccer coach at several levels. She is an avid bicyclist who rode for Team RHA in the 2019 Garden State Fondo in Morristown, a fundraising event, and aspires to ride in an endurance event in each of the 50 states. She and her husband, Philip, have two adult daughters.
Sarah Soden
Soden grew up in the Tewksbury area and is a regular at Fairview Farm, hiking and attending events like the annual Old-Fashioned Country Fair. She holds a B.A. degree in public policy from Hobart and William Smith Colleges; and an M.A. in nonprofit management, Northeastern University. She works for a New Jersey philanthropic organization, supporting charitable initiatives in the area of global health. Previously she worked in the development departments of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She and her husband, John, have two young children. She also serves on the board of the St. John’s on the Mountain Nursery School and is a past board member of the Jacobus Vanderveer House.
Curt Viebranz
Viebranz and his wife, Cissy, raised their three children in Chester Township, near Hacklebarney State Park. They moved to Virginia in 2012 when Curt became president and chief executive of George Washington’s historic Mount Vernon estate, and returned to New Jersey in 2017. He holds a B.A. degree from Middlebury College and an M.B.A. from Harvard University. Earlier in his career, Viebranz spent over 20 years in leadership positions at Time Warner, served as president of HBO International, and worked with several internet start-up companies. He currently serves on the board of the Greater Newark LifeCamp in Pottersville.
About Raritan Headwaters
Raritan Headwaters has been working since 1959 to protect, preserve and improve water quality and other natural resources of the Raritan River headwaters region through science, education, advocacy, land preservation and stewardship. RHA’s 470-square-mile region provides clean drinking water to 300,000 residents of 38 municipalities in Somerset, Hunterdon and Morris counties and beyond to some 1.5 million homes and businesses in New Jersey’s densely populated urban areas.
To learn more about Raritan Headwaters and its programs, please visit www.raritanheadwaters.org or call 908-234-1852.
