Indian Riverkeeper Kevin Stinnette.

(shown here with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the Waterkeeper Alliance National Conference in June of 2002.)

Kevin Stinnette has served as president of the Treasure Coast Environmental Defense Fund and on the Board of Directors of the St. Lucie County Conservation Alliance. He is one of the "St. Lucie Four" written about by Florida columnist Carl Hiaasen.

Kevin has served on the boards of not for profit organizations ranging from Self Reliance, a Tampa organization with a $1 Million+ budget, (providing housing and transportation services to the disabled), to The Conservation Alliance, St. Lucie County's anchor environmental organization. Kevin was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia North Africa in 1990 and has great appreciation of the cultural diversity on the Treasure Coast. He has experience in agriculture and the construction industry. He is certified to teach middle/high school English, speech and special education (Physically challenged) Kevin was most recently Technology Coordinator at Forest Grove Middle School in St. Lucie County.

The Coast Guard licensed Kevin as a captain in 1983. He has a lifetime of experience on the water, including years of offshore yacht racing, work as an excursion, charter and delivery captain across the Bahamas and the Gulf of Mexico. His degree in Speech Communication from University of South Florida is central to his comfort and ability in speaking at public meetings. He has spoken at state meetings of Audubon and Sierra Club, The National Green Scissors Conference in Washington and countless county commission, expressway authority, and city council meetings. His three-year participation on the Comprehensive Plan Study Group for St. Lucie County has given him a thorough understanding of growth management in Florida.

Kevin has a positive relationship with local environmental agencies. He arranged sea grass surveys that identified federally protected Johnson's sea grass in the path of the proposed Walton Road Toll Bridge and joined with Department of Environmental Protection divers in transects that quantified the presence of that sea grass where previous surveys had not been done. He has earned the respect of South Florida Water Management District staff as well as National Marine Fisheries Service employees. Kevin's input contributed to thorough and negative responses to the Expressway Authority's Advanced Notification from the above mentioned agencies and the St. Lucie County Community Development Agency.

Kevin grew up near Tampa Bay in St. Petersburg. He has lived in Florida since he was 3 years old and has a deep love of the state. He is happily married to Florida native Marilyn Waugh-Stinnette and they live on the Indian River Lagoon in St. Lucie County.