Learn more about CVAQ's staff.

Kevin Hall, Director

A lifelong valley resident, Kevin spent his boyhood in the unincorporated Madera County neighborhood of Eastside Acres, part of “greater Firebaugh” as he describes it, three doors down from the San Joaquin River. His family moved into Fresno when he was 12 years old where he eventually graduated from Fresno State with a degree in English. He began his work on air pollution and climate change in 1999 as a volunteer with the Sierra Club-Tehipite Chapter where he served for ten years as Air Quality, Transportation & Global Warming chair, and in 2003 he helped to establish CVAQ.

His professional background includes 13 years in the agricultural magazine and farm show industry where he worked as a reporter, editor, publisher and trade show promoter; and six years as a community and political organizer for several labor unions, most recently the National Union of Healthcare Workers. Kevin also spent two years as founder and president of San Joaquin Valley Strategies, a Fresno-based company specializing in political campaigns and communications.

A former Fresno County Planning Commissioner, he is a past recipient of the California League of Conservation Voters’ Environmental Activist of the Year Award, Sierra Club California’s John Zierold Award, the Sierra Club-Tehipite Chapter’s Conservationist of the Year, and the American Agricultural Editors Association’s Opinion Writer of the Year. He lives in Fresno with his wife, Anne, and their son, Joey.

If you're a reporter on deadline, please call Kevin Hall at (559) 301-5537

Dolores Weller, Assistant Director

Dolores Weller was born and raised in the Central Valley.

In 2002, she graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Politics and a Minor in Spanish Literature. After graduating, she began working for The Monarch School Project, a school for homeless and at risk youth in downtown San Diego in a variety of roles. She later served as a Community Educator & Outreach Specialist for The Health Insurance Counseling & Advocacy Program also in San Diego, prior to returning to the Central Valley in 2007.

She lives in Clovis with her husband, Rich and daughter, Gianna.