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Shotgun House Committee Members

Tom Cleys, Real estate developer. Founding board member and first president of the Santa Monica Conservancy, also the treasurer. Board of Friends of Sunset Park. Masters in Real Estate Development, MBA from the University of Southern California.

Nina Fresco, Founding board member of the Santa Monica Conservancy. City of Santa Monica Landmarks Commissioner.  SM Conservancy Governmental Affairs Committee chair and membership chair. Will document Shotgun House Project in photographs, liaison to private and public schools for programming, and maintain website.

Mario Fonda Bonardi, Fonda-Bonardi & Hohman Architects, work includes restorations of historic buildings. Long time community activist. Santa Monica Conservancy member.

Sherrill Kushner, Chair of the Shotgun House Committee. Attorney, fundraiser, writer. Chaired the bond campaign for new main library and fundraiser for Montana Avenue Library refurbishing. Former board member of Friends of the Library, the Library Board for the City of Santa Monica, and Santa Monica Conservancy; former editor of the SM Conservancy newsletter and member of the Program Committee.

Ruthann Lehrer, Santa Monica Conservancy founding board member and chair of the program committee. Coordinates educational tours, lectures and special events.  City of Santa Monica Landmarks Commissioner. She has worked in historic preservation professionally for more than 25 years, both for the City of Long Beach and for the L.A. Conservancy.  She has been on the Boards of the California Preservation Foundation and the L.A. Conservancy. 

Others on the Shotgun House team to date:

Kenneth A. Breisch, Adjunct Associate Professor and Director, Programs in Historic Preservation, School of Architecture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Santa Monica Conservancy Founding Board Member. Santa Monica Public Library Board Member.

Peyton Hall, Historic Architect, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, instructor in the University of Southern California Historic Preservation programs, former President of the California Preservation Foundation and former Chair of the Board of Directors of Pasadena Heritage. Will serve as consultant in the proper rehabilitation of the structure, work with the general contractor, and offer suggestions for interpretive signage within.

Marcello Vavala, President of the Santa Monica Conservancy and Preservation Associate at the Los Angeles Conservancy. Completed course work at the USC Historic Preservation Program. Independant Preservation Consultant. Former Residential Concil Chair of the LA Conservancy Modern Committee. Will assist with research for exhibitions.