Carleton Montgomery
Carleton Montgomery is executive director of the Pinelands Preservation Alliance (PPA), a position he has held since 1998. After receiving his law degree from Harvard Law School and clerking on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Carleton joined the law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson, where he became a partner in the firm’s litigation practice in 1994. Looking to devote his energy and training to the environmental movement, Carleton had the good fortune to find the Pinelands and PPA.
Over the past two decades, he has helped PPA expand its advocacy, communications, and constituency building to ensure New Jersey’s extraordinary growth management system succeeds in saving the unique resources of the Pinelands in America’s most crowded state. In recent years, PPA has created Pinelands Adventures and Rancocas Creek Farm. Pinelands Adventures is an outfitter that helps thousands of people each year learn to love the Pinelands through canoe and kayak trips, land-based explorations, and programs for schools and service organizations. Rancocas Creek Farm is a chemical-free, regenerative farm that demonstrates the value of good working lands management for protecting water, restoring soil health, providing healthy food, and strengthening the local farm economy. Through its involvement in the Inclusive Healthy Communities initiative, PPA and its partners seek to make the Pinelands a valued resource for all people through expanding information and opportunities for persons with disabilities to enjoy natural places.
Carleton serves on the board of trustees of the New Jersey League of Conservation Voters.
Cassie Iacovelli
Cassie Iacovelli is beginning her fourteenth year as the Executive Director of MainStreet Hammonton, a program started in 1993 and recognized as one of the most successful in New Jersey. Cassie also serves on the Hammonton Arts Advisory Committee, Hammonton Health Coalition, Hammonton Covid Relief Economic Impact Committee and Hammonton Pedestrian & Bike Steering Committee. Cassie is also the Program Coordinator for the Hammonton Heart & Soul Leadership Team. “Our town has a history to be proud of and it is also experiencing lots of change with new people moving in and wanting to call Hammonton their home.”
Prior to her position in Hammonton, Cassie was the Assistant Dean of Campus Life at Rider University. She holds a Master of Education in Student Personnel Services from The College of New Jersey and Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Seton Hall University
Cassie has lived in Hammonton with her husband John since 2008. Together they enjoy time with their son’s and two daughters’ families. They cherish being grandparents to their three grandsons and a granddaughter. The charm, tranquility and closeness to the shore are why they love living in Hammonton.
Richard Rehmann
Richard Rehmann is the third-generation owner of ARH Associates, Inc. (ARH), a civil engineering firm headquartered in Hammonton since the 1930s. Rich is a community-oriented individual andlife-ling resident of Hammonton. He currently volunteers for Hammonton MainStreet (Board President), Hammonton Health
Coalition, Hammonton Coronavirus Task Force, and the Greater Hammonton Chamber of Commerce. Previous volunteering included Hammonton Little League coach and Board member and Creative Hammonton organizer.
Rich is excited to participate on the Hammonton Heart & Soul Leadership Team,
contributing his energy and talents to collaborate with the Group and achieve
our Mission. Rich returned to Hammonton shortly after graduating with a Masters in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 1993. In 2020 during the COVID-19 Pandemic, ARH established ARH in the Community, a non-profit to focus our support communities across the State.
Rich lives in Hammonton with his wife (Linda), daughter (Erin), and son (Jack), and he enjoys working with and spending time with his father (Chris) and mother (Loretta) who both live in Town.
Michael Cagno
From 1999- 2006, Michael Cagno served as the Executive Director for the Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Art in Millville, New Jersey. During his tenure in Millville, Michael worked with government and community organizations to revitalize its downtown by using the arts as a catalyst for economic development and social transformation. Since August 2006, Michael has served as Executive Director of The Noyes Museum of Art of Richard Stockton University. This partnership has allowed the museum to increase its capacity to make the arts more accessible and inclusive for residents of southern New Jersey. Today the Noyes Museum operates facilities in Hammonton and Atlantic City.
Michael currently serves on the Board of Trustees as Vice-President for the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museum, Cumberland County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Ducktown Neighborhood Association, Chairman of the National Building Museums Symposium and has served as board member for the New Jersey Association of Museums, Art Pride NJ and the South Jersey Cultural Alliance as Vice President. Having a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art from Rowan University, Masters Degree in Museum in Management and a Graduate Certificate in Arts Administration from Seton Hall University has allowed Michael to follow his passion for the arts. He also shares this passion as an adjunct arts professor Stockton University.