Member Profiles

Kathy Sessions

 

Brenda Afzal

 

Mike Schade

 

Emily Wise

 

Rick Engler

 

Genon Jensen

 

Susan Vuillemot

 

Tom Laskawy

 

Jane Conover

 

Becky Glass

 

Maureen Cane

 

Archer H Christian

 

Jason Rano

 

Megan Latshaw

 

Peearson Malisau

 

Gillian Shinkman

 

Joanne Perodin

 

Tracy Zhu

 

Jackie Schwartz

 

Janet Maughan

 

Peggy Parmley

 

Laura Rost

 

Barbara Davis

 

Nizeyimana Seleman

 

Kathleen A. Curtis

 

Franny Chiles

 

Sandy Chiang

 

Tina Eshaghpour

 

Michele Prichard

 

Laura Abulafia

 

Anne Ondrusek

 

Marie Baker

 

Tracy Kolian

 

Jack Salo

 

Allison Cook

 

jenny Russell

 

Ralph Scott

 

Jim Dawson

 

Drury Carr

 

Tracy Lakatua

 

Denny Larson

 

Janet Nudelman

 

Robert Reinhard

 

sue gunderson

 

Paul Lang

 

Lisa Schubert

 

Women's Voices for the Earth

 

Julius Kolawole

 

Sheela Sathyanarayana

 

Maye Thompson

 

martha dina arguello

 

Joey Nilan

 

Nicole Bergeron

 

Dana Betterton

 

Ann Cornell

 

Ellen Dorsey

 

Sarah Hansen

 

Jesse Johnson

 

Heeten Kalan

 

Sharon Kaufman

 

Sophia Kolehmainen

 

Cathy Crumbley

 

Katie Kross

Katie Kross is a sustainability practitioner, educator, and social entrepreneur who is passionately committed to advancing North Carolina’s national leadership in sustainable economic and community development. As president of the North Carolina Sustainability Center, she guides the center’s vision of catalyzing an economically vibrant, socially equitable, and environmentally prosperous future for North Carolina.

Linda Jo Doctor

 

Carolyn Fine Friedman

 

Lois Gibbs

 

Guinevere Higgins

 

Thomas P. Johnson, Jr.

 

Anita Nager

 

Emily Varga

 

Harriet Barlow

 

Lisa Fu

 

Christine James

 

Maria Wurschy

 

Sarah Harding

 

Henry S Cole

 

Jackie Warledo

 

Marylia Kelley

 

Timothy V. Delaney

 

Lorraine Eckstein, Ph.D.

Lorraine Eckstein, Ph.D. is a cultural anthropologist (European-American) who volunteered as a technical writer, researcher, and administrator first at Greenpeace and then at ACAT (1993-1999). In 2000 she joined the ACAT staff, and supports most projects with her administrative, analytical, research, and technical writing skills. Lorraine has thirty-years of experience in research administration with expertise in the application of economic, sociological, and psychological models. She specializes in qualitative research methods, ethics with human-subjects research, medical research, and investigative report writing. Before coming to ACAT, Lorraine taught college and owned writing and research businesses (including jury consultation). She holds a doctorate from the University of Washington in Seattle (1990), a master’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis (1979), and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

Robin H. Nash

 

Children's Environmental Health Network

 

Practice Greenhealth

 

Ashies Banana

 

Anne Chastain

 

Sarah Howard

 

Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice

 

gail reed

 

Josh Boese

 

Matthew McGowan

 

environmental working group

 

Karen Escalante-Dalton

 

Deena Prichep

 

Gayle Wayne

 

Michael Wilson

 

Elizabeth Wolf

The Cornucopia Institute is a national nonprofit farm policy research group. Our mission is to defend economic justice for the family-scale farming community. We act as a government and industry watchdog preserving the integrity of organic, sustainable and local food and farming. Through research, advocacy, and consumer education, we work to create a food system that rewards sustainable farmers, produces healthy, wholesome food for all communities, promotes humane animal welfare standards, and protects the environment. The core of our 8,000 members nationwide comes from the organic/sustainable family-farming community. Connect with us at www.cornucopia.org and on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube.

Lisa Simer

 

Ina Smith

 

Susan Wefald

 

Bill Mitchell

 

julianne Nassif

 

Arturo Sandoval

 

John Edwards

 

Rachel Vernon

 

Pablo Barreyro

 

Lisa Isenhart

Lisa Isenhart is the Coalition Manager for Keep Antibiotics Working.

Diana Dascalu-Joffe

 

Ann Alexander

 

Linda Shak

 

Jose Bravo Toscano

 

Devon Finley

 

Heather Sarantis

 

John Nyebribi

 

Kathryn Gilje

 

Jason Rano

 

Outreach Washington DC

 

Mark Kitchell

 

Eileen Paul

 

Dave Finnigan

 

LaMirldred Mackabee-Anderson

 

Melissa Coffin

 

Nick Thorp

 

Corinne Ertz

 

Ana Mascarenas

 

Tara D'Andrea

Riverkeeper is a member-supported not-for-profit with a mission to defend the Hudson River and its tributaries and protect the drinking water supply for nine million New York City and Hudson Valley residents. For more than 45 years, Riverkeeper has been New York's clean water advocate. Riverkeeper uses law, science and grassroots advocacy to defend the rights of our communities to clean water. Through this powerful combination of strategies we have helped to establish globally recognized standards for waterway and watershed protection and serve as the model and mentor for the growing Waterkeeper movement that includes 200 Keeper programs across the country and around the globe. Since 2008, Riverkeeper has been working to prevent unsafe hydrofracking in the Marcellus and Utica Shale formations in New York State. We have been a key advocate for a comprehensive study of the health impacts of hydrofracking and a leading participant in the State's environmental review process for hydrofracking. Riverkeeper also worked with Delaware Riverkeeper Network in a legal intervention to prevent the finalization of regulations that would have allowed hydrofracking to go forward in the Delaware River Basin without the completion of environmental studies required by federal law.

Taryn Murphy

 

Benjamin Lilly

 

Aparna Sharma

 

Kimberly Collier

 

Steve Dickens

 

Norbert Kovacs

 

Jessica

 

Lowell Center for Sustainable Production

 

Lin Kaatz Chary

 

Nina Schoch

Dr. Nina Schoch coordinates BRI's Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation in New York, and is the Program Director for BRI’s Wildlife Health Assessment Program. During the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. Schoch led BRI’s avian health assessment project to evaluate sublethal effects of oil exposure to wild bird populations. She has a veterinary degree from the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, a master’s degree in Natural Resources/Wildlife Management from Humboldt State University, and a bachelor’s degree in Biology-Behavioral Ecology from Cornell University.

Cathy Crumbley

 

Christina Medina

Christina Medina is the Program Coordinator for the CHANGE coalition. Prior to this, she was the Environmental Health Specialist at Ma’at Youth Academy in Richmond working with youth, WIC participants and subsistence fishing communities around local environmental justice issues particularly around mercury in fish. In earlier work, she organized outreach events with the African American Community Health Group of the Central Coast, a community health group in Santa Cruz and worked on issues of accountability within the FDA as a Policy Fellow at National Research Center for Women and Families in Washington, DC. Christina also has some years of experience as a K-12 teacher.

Convergence Partnership

 

Tina Richerson

 

Mary Sloan Roby

 

Elise Miller

Elise Miller, MEd, is Director of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE), an international partnership of researchers, health professionals and environmental health and justice advocates working to mitigate environmental contributors to chronic disease and disability. As a co-founder of the Collaborative in 2002, Ms. Miller also coordinates CHE’s Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative and co-chairs CHE’s Parkinson’s Disease and Environment Working Group. In addition, Ms. Miller serves on the national board of directors of the Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN) and The Endocrine Disruptor Exchange (TEDX) as well as on the professional advisory boards of five other nonprofits in the environmental health field nationally and regionally. She also is a member of the US EPA’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC). In 1999, Ms. Miller founded the national Institute for Children’s Environmental Health (ICEH) and served as its executive director for 10 years. The primary mission of the Institute, which is going to now become a working group under CHE, is to foster collaborative initiatives among diverse sectors to reduce environmental exposures and other factors that can undermine children’s healthy development. From 1993-1998, Ms. Miller served as the founding Executive Director of the Jenifer Altman Foundation, a private foundation in northern California, which at the time held interests in sustainable development, environmental health, mind-body health, and issues affecting disadvantaged children. In 2001, she completed a three-year Fetzer Fellowship for her work with emerging leaders on sustainable development and environmental health issues. Ms. Miller has also been an editor, teacher, researcher, mental health counselor, journalist and community-based advocate. She has worked, studied and traveled extensively in Europe and Asia, and spent two years living in India first as a journalist, stringing for the Economist and the Christian Science Monitor, and later as a researcher for her graduate work on adolescent psychology at Harvard. She received her Masters degree in Education from Harvard University in 1992 and her Bachelor’s degree in History with high honors from Dartmouth College in 1985. On a personal note, Ms. Miller and her husband recently completed building their home based on ecologically sustainable principles and have a four-year-old son, adopted from Nepal.

David Michaels

 

frank mugisha

 

Deborah Habib

 

Jill Hertzler

 

Children's Environmental Health Network

 

Shoko Murakami

 

Anuja Mendiratta

 

Robyn Conroy

 

Caty Poole

 

Jalmar De Dios

 

Emily Bell

 

Marilyn Johnson

 

Natasha Ghent-Rodriguez

 

Emily Copeland

 

Heather Burpee

 

Michael Fischer

 

C.S. Roche Victor

 

Tina Starr

 

Margie Kelly

 

Laura Viggiano

 

Jessica Schifano

 

Teri Carhart

 

Martine E. Gold

 

Laurie Davis

 

Debby Lee Cohen

 

Desmond Riley

 

Juliana E. Birkhoff

 

Stephen Purcell

 

Steven Gilbert

 

Saul Bloom

 

Kate Hoff

 

Stanley W. Eller

 

Andrea Bretting

 

Ted Nace

 

Elise Miller

 

Karla Fortunato

Karla Fortunato is HEFN’s Director, and joined the staff in September 2004. Fortunato previously served as Associate Director for Policy of Health Care For All, a statewide health advocacy organization in Massachusetts. She also provided strategic guidance in the planning and establishment of the Public Policy Institute, an organization committed to building the infrastructure and skills set of social justice organizations. She holds an MBA, magna cum laude, from the George Washington University, and a BA, magna cum laude, from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College.

Ann Bartz

 

Grace Caligtan

 

Kris Wells

 

Gary Sprague

 

Alexander Gyebi

 

Chloe Schwabe

 

Penn Loh

 

Nancy Vorsanger

 

Vernon Haltom

 

Jim Thomas

 

Shana Newman Fajardo

 

Cheyenne Chapman

 

Hope McKinnis

 

Henry David

 

CIEL Chemical

 

wilma montanez

 

Jonathon Freeman

 

Diane Ives

 

Andrew Lane

 

Ann Leonard

 

Michael Lerner

 

Len McNally

 

Faith Mitchell

 

Pete Myers

 

Amanda Longtain

 

Judith Robinson

JUDITH ROBINSON has worked in environmental health for 15 years. She is currently Executive Director of the Environmental Health Fund, originally joining EHF in 2001. Previously she served as regional director of a statewide environmental advocacy group focused on toxics and corporate accountability campaigns. Judy also co-coordinates Coming Clean a collaborative of 200 environmental health and justice groups, health professionals, scientists, labor advocates, sustainable business leaders, faith groups, and disease service and prevention groups that work together on inter-related strategies to transform the energy and chemical dependent markets in the U.S., to leverage exposure science on chemicals into campaigns for precaution and health, to build support for synergistic policy initiatives nationwide, and develop a coalition of environmental health, justice groups and energy focused organizations supporting toxic chemical substitution and clean energy worldwide.

Stephanie Bleyer

 

Dan Jacobson

 

Megan Schwarzman

 

Sylvia León Koberg

 

Jennifer Powers

 

Will Samson

 

Sarah Shields

 

Katrina Ledbetter

 

carolyn fine friedman

 

Amy Solomon

 

Michael Heintz

 

Jessica Buendia

 

Meredith Block

 

David Wallinga, MD

 

Abigail Newburger

 

Marissa Newhall

 

John Rumpler

 

Brian Gumm

Brian joined OMB Watch in November 2006 as Communications Coordinator. Working closely with staff from each of its four issue areas, Brian manages the organization's overall communications efforts. Prior to joining the OMB Watch staff, Brian worked as the Communications and Media Relations Director at the Alliance for Healthy Homes, a national organization that seeks to protect all Americans from health hazards in residential settings. Brian has also worked as the Administrative and Outreach Coordinator for the Upper Midwest Regional Office of American Farmland Trust and as a research associate/policy analyst with the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Brian has a B.S. in Environmental Policy from Northland College and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Kimery Wiltshire

 

Lisa Owens Viani

 

Lois Gibbs

 

Lisa Philp

 

Carol Westinghouse

 

Daphne Butler

 

Kara West

 

JB Hunt

 

Linda Ann Smith

 

Rick Engler

 

Andrea Carmen

 

Ramsay Adams

 

Tracy Wood

 

Renee Hackenmiller-Paradis

Renee Hackenmiller-Paradis, MPH., PhD. Renee joined Oregon Environmental Council’s staff as the Environmental Health Program Director in February 2007. At OEC, Renee works to develop and promote policies and projects that protect kids’ health from toxic pollution and to strengthen collaborative relationships with health professionals. She organizes and implements OEC’s annual Healthy Environment Forum series, coordinates the Oregon chapter of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, manages the “Pollution in People” project to test 10 Oregonians’ chemical body burden, and is overseeing a report to evaluate the economic cost to Oregon of certain diseases and disabilities that are attributable to environmental contaminants. Renee has a BS in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Washington, a PhD in Genetics from the University of Chicago, and a MPH in Health Management and Policy from Portland State University.

Eliza Berry

 

Nichole Cirillo

 

David Harris

 

Catherine King

 

Jennifer Berman

 

Jill Montgomery

 

jennifer lacey

 

Dana Betterton

 

Patrick MacRoy

 

karen wishnev

 

Jessie Gallogly

 

Rae Richman

 

Media Policy Center

 

melissa picoli

 

Julie Mercer-Ingram

 

Bjorn Beeler

 

mark rabine

 

marni rosen

 

Lynn Sagramoso

 

Nora Burton

 

Jane Calvin

 

Andre Pettigrew

 

Christian Lelash

 

Daniel Runo

 

Daryl Ditz

 

Jen Li

 

Niaz Dorry

 

Lisa Archer

 

Megan Schwarzman

 

Fiona Fisher

 

Emily Peterson

 

Michelle Naccarati-Chapkis

 

Kirby Hughes

 

Andrea Neal

 

Earl Lui

 

Hannah Cary

 

Catharine Grimes

 

Rachel Leon

 

Nancy

 

Ron Kroese

 

Kim Ogren

 

Hai Binh Nguyen

 

Kathryn Alcantar

 

Stalin Durairaj

 

Gloria J. Orellana

 

Narada Lee

 

Catherine Thomasson

 

Dorothy Barnett

 

Vanessa Faryan

 

Jose Toscano Bravo

 

Richard Denison

 

Katie Silberman

 

Relani Prudhomme

 

Caitlin A Johnson

 

Candice McGregor

 

Katie Lane

 

Barbara Arrindell

 

Elena Lymberidi

 

molly jacobs

 

Courtney Spellacy

 

Evelyn Arce

 

Kelly White

 

Andrea Levinson

 

Beto Bedolfe

 

Jarrett T. Barrios

 

Lea Palabrica

 

Arlene Rodriguez

 

Jeronimo Saldana

 

Lissa Widoff

 

Natalie Garcia

 

Rachel L Newman

 

Sally Chadbourne

 

Jon M Jensen

 

Andrea Balzano

 

Michael Passoff

 

Carol Strone

 

Andrew Blejwas

 

Haze Bergeron

 

Deanna Mason

 

Megan Battistella

 

Frederick vom Saal

 

Jenny Carwile

 

Amber Valentin

 

Kari Wohlschlegel

 

Alice Shabecoff

 

Bonnie Low

 

Ashley Colpaart

 

THIRUVEEDHULA RAVINDRANATH JAYACHANDAR

 

Molly Rauch

 

Andrew Sousa

 

Linda F Baker

 

Jane Chang

 

Zheka Blyat

 

Bill Brown

 

Mag Sim

 

Michael A. Freeman

 

Margie Kelly

 

Frank Phoenix

 

Hilda Vega

 

Shelley Kossak

 

Molly Jacobs

 

Peggy Lauer

 

Martha Diaz

 

Morganne Rosenhaus

 

Jan McDonald

 

Ashley Iwanaga

 

Leslie Leslie

 

Gen Howe

 

marjoriefine

 

David D Fukuzawa

 

courtney pastorfield

 

Mizue Suito

 

Charles Klein

 

Per Rosander

 

Pat Williams

 

Adele Houghton

 

Janet Keating

 

Valeriano

 

Betty Futch

 

Valentine Doyle

 

Bobbi Chase Wilding

 

Jamie Silberberger

 

Lisa Fu

 

Adrienne Morello

 

Tracy Zhu

 

Robin Ellington

 

Brian Standiford

 

Katherine Sargent

 

leonard kayondo

 

Lauren Conte

 

Alison Carlson

 

Erik Kiviat

 

Marylia Kelley

 

sharyle Patton

 

jane zuroff

 

Dylan Atchley

 

Erin Decker

 

Diana Bell

 

Gary Cohen

 

Lauren Linville

 

michael neumann

 

Will Childs

 

Katherine Kokko

 

Kate Hawthorne

 

Renee Blanchard

 

Tim Crosby

 

Dori Gilels

 

Community Water Center

 

andre carothers

Andre is the Executive Director of the New Place Fund, a board member of the Weinmann Charitable Trust and of the Furthur Foundation, and a Senior Fellow at the Rockwood Leadership Institute

patricia dowd

 

Moriah Cohen

 

Sharon Pines

 

strela cervas

 

Carol Kwiatkowski

 

Carol Barbeito

 

monica buckhorn

 

molly arthur

 

Zenfira

 

Celine Soudant

 

Jim Vallette

 

val wilso

 

Campbell Plowden

 

Kay Treakle

 

Francesca Vietor

 

Mohammad Khorshed Alam

 

Megan Hampton

 

Anna Claeys

Silent Spring Institute was founded by breast cancer and environmental activists, scientists, and physicians in 1994 to conduct scientific research on potential environmental causes of breast cancer and other women's health problems. Our mission is to do the highest quality scientific research in collaboration with academic scientists and our activist partners. Our research has included health studies, for example a breast cancer case-control study of 2100 women on Cape Cod, MA; exposure studies, for example we conducted a landmark study of exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals indoors that included first-reported measures for 30 different EDCs; and research reviews, for example a series of papers published in the journal Cancer reviewing evidence for associations of various environmental factors and breast cancer. Our web site is www.silentspring.org.

Danielle Nettles

 

Kayondo Leonard

 

Muhindo ALex

 

Kevin Kenzenkovic

 

Andrew Behar

 

Abby Gold

 

Katherine Kassing

 

Bonny Taggart

 

Elizabeth Crowe

 

Danielle Cameron

 

Carol Casaday

 

Rand Jack

 

Nsedu Obot Witherspoon

 

Mary T'Kach

 

Elizabeth Mears

 

Andre Pettigrew

 

Deeohn Ferris

 

Dan Heller

 

Stacy Malkan

 

Lauren Hierl

 

Alex Formuzis

 

Test User

 

T R JAYACHANDAR

 

Michelle DePass

 

Michael S. Hutton

 

Mary Tyler Johnson

 

Michael T Murphy

 

Amy Kersteen

 

Virginia Clarke

 

Anne w. Garnett

 

Lucille Nurkse

 

Gopep Guse

 

Jennifer Sass

 

S. Loren Cole

 

Nancy Myers

 

Emily Enderle

 

Andy Clarke

 

Barbara Rose Johnston

 

Kerry Morse

 

Sarah A. Vogel

 

Willow Ann Sirch

 

Carol Zagrocki

 

michael passoff

 

Bernie Schlotfeldt

 

RACHEL ROSENBERG

 

Sarah Christiansen

 

Becky Erickson

 

Lara Hall

 

Heidi Binko

 

Meghan Beach

 

Heather Harr

 

Leslie

 

amy kostant

 

Ramtin Arablouei

 

Laura Weinberg

Laura Weinberg has been working on projects pertaining to breast cancer and the environment for the past 20 years. Laura has been president of the Great Neck Breast Cancer Coalition since 2001 and was Co-Chair of the Long Island Breast Cancer Network for a five year period. As an important platform of the Great Neck Breast Cancer Coalition, she has advocated for reduction of toxins in our environment through hundreds of educational presentations and working with public officials on passing legislation. In 2005, Laura spearheaded the Students and Scientists Breast Cancer/Environmental Research Scholarship Program, which as sent 23 students to research facilities such as the Soto/Sonnenschein Laboratory at Tufts University School of Medicine, the Silent Spring Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, Warner Babcock Green Chemistry Institute, NYU Poly-Tech, among others. Students sponsored at these research facilities assisted in research related to environmental links to breast cancer and breast cancer prevention. Since 2001 Laura Weinberg has been a Board Member of the New York State Breast Cancer Network where she has worked on their environmental committee. Through this network, Laura was instrumental in the passage of the ban of BPA in children’s products in New York State in 2009 as well as the passage of the statewide Green Purchasing Law in 2008. In 2010, Laura Weinberg began working with the Breast Cancer Environmental Research Program as a Community Partner with Principal Investigators Susan Teitelbaum and Jia Chen, and co-partner, Karen Miller. Weinberg has received the following honors: Appointed as a member of the Women’s Roll of Honor of the Town of North Hempstead in 2002, awarded Environmentalist of the Year by the Long Island Sierra Club in 2000, awarded by The League of Women Voters in Great Neck in March 2008. In April 2010 she received an Environmental Quality Award from the U.S. EPA for her leadership in protecting and enhancing environmental quality in New York State. Weinberg is a LEED Green Associate which is recognized by the U.S. Green Building Council.

Gail Bateson

 

Lisa Mikesell

 

Sarah Doll

 

Annalisa Robles

 

michelle vanstrom

 

Mag Sim

 

Zoey Burrows

 

Davis Baltz

 

Javid Syed

 

Eileen Ashton

 

Oscar SEKA

 

Laura S. Washington

 

Richard A. Liroff