Director of CNT Energy at the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago.
Former Director of the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program at
the Chicago Department of Public Health. Prior to joining the Department
of Health, Evens worked on public health and community development efforts
in Mozambique, Mexico, and Nicaragua. She also worked with the Grass Roots
Alliance for a Solar Pennsylvania.
Pediatrician and researcher at Boston Medical Center studying the effects
of environmental health hazards on children’s health. Sandel is
a Co-Principal Investigator on the Boston Healthy Homes Partnership and
serves on the Asthma Regional Coordinating Council and with the Boston
Health Care for the Homeless Program.
Founder and director of Citizens Lead Education and Poison Prevention
Organization and the Mothers’ Environmental Coalition of Alabama.
Representative to the African-American Environmental Justice Network and
advisory board member of the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic
Justice.
Deputy Director of the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC),
which is dedicated solely to ending America’s affordable housing
crisis. While NLIHC’s members include a wide spectrum of housing
interests, it does not represent any segment of the housing industry.
Rather, it focuses exclusively on the interests of people who receive
or need federal housing assistance. Couch has worked at NLIHC since 1995
except for three years that she spent at at the American Association of
Homes and Services for the Aging. She also has a background in state governmental
affairs, working for a private consulting firm and as a fellow in the
Connecticut General Assembly’s Office of Legislative Research.
Currently Senior Legislative Representative at Earthjustice in Washington,
DC the nation’s largest environmental law firm. At Earthjustice,
she works primarily on protecting endangered species and wildlife and
defending and strengthening the Endangered Species Act. Before moving
to Washington, DC, in 2002, Holmes was the Senior Regional Representative
in charge of the Sierra Club’s New York City Office. Since the birth
of her daughter in 2004, she has became particularly interested in issues
affecting children’s health. While pregnant with her daughter, Holmes
discovered that the water in the house was contaminated with lead and
became active in the efforts reduce lead in the DC water supply. In 2005,
she moved into a house contaminated with lead from old paint. After addressing
her own daughter’s exposure to lead dust, Holmes became committed
to helping others deal with lead hazards and to working toward better
policies to control lead and educate the public.
Professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
at Duke University and faculty member in the Integrated Toxicology Program.
Miranda also directs the Children’s Environmental Health Initiative,
managing environmental research projects on health hazards in housing
and children’s exposure to air and water toxics.
Former Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health and a Clinical
Assistant Professor of Community Health at Brown University. Nolan previously
served as executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Health
and Environment.
Executive Director of Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (Tejas),
Outreach Coordinator for Citizens League for Environmental Action Now
(CLEAN), Board Member of Galveston Houston Association for Smog Prevention
(GHASP), and Advisory Board Member of the Sierra Club National Environmental
Justice Committee. Former community organizer with the Thurgood Marshall
School of Law, Environmental Justice Clinic at Texas Southern University
in Houston. Extensive experience working with low-income communities and
immigrant and migrant workers on social justice campaigns.
Official with the Minneapolis Deparmtent of Health and Family Support.
Former Lead Project Manager for the Greater Minneapolis Daycare Association
(GMDCA), where he worked to ensure that in-home daycares are safe from
lead and other health hazards, such as asthma triggers. Petsche serves
as board chair for Project 504 in Minneapolis.
Vice President of Environment and Community Health Programs at Isles,
Inc. in Trenton, NJ. Pivnick has over 25 years of experience in community
outreach and planning in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. She
has previous experience as the founding executive director of a community-based
organization, as project coordinator for the community development program
in the City of Philadelphia, and as project manager for a civil engineering
firm in Austin, Texas. While in Texas, she served on the city's Environmental
Commission for several years. Pivnick currently oversees an interdisciplinary
set of environment and community health programs including healthy homes,
healthy schools, community gardening, open space development, environmental
education, exercise, and nutrition. Pivnick received her Masters Degree
in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a board member
of the New Jersey Environmental Federation and the leader of the Trenton
Coalition for Healthy Schools.
Former Vice President of the Conservation Law Foundation and author of
Massachusetts' landmark lead poisoning prevention law.
Assistant Commissioner for Healthy Homes at the City of Baltimore Health
Department.
Associate Director and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine
at Howard University Cancer Center and a prominent public health educator
and administrator. Past Dean of the College of Public Health at the University
of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, former Commissioner of Public Health
for the State of Massachusetts, and former health director for the State
of Michigan.
Has over two decades of experience in occupational and environmental health
as an educator, consultant, trainer, administrator, and advocate. In 1994,
she co-founded and currently serves as the Executive Director of Detroiters
Working for Environmental Justice, a nonprofit organization addressing
urban environmental issues in the City of Detroit. Wilkins is an appointee
of the Detroit City Council to the Detroit Brownfield Redevelopment Authority,
Member of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Environmental
Advisory Committee, Co-Chair of the National Black Environmental Justice
Network, and Board President for the Colin Powell Public School Academy.
She has served as a special member to the Pollution Prevention Subcommittee
of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council and many other
committees and forums.
Asthma Director for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Former
Executive Director of the Boston Urban Asthma Coalition, an advocacy organization
that focuses on improving asthma control in Boston. Zotter co-founded
the Boston Urban Asthma Coalition while working at Boston Medical Center’s
Family Advocacy Program as an attorney. Zotter worked with the Family
Advocacy Program for 6 years and served as the Director for her last two
years.
(Honorary)
Director of ADS Ventures, a government relations firm specializing in
environmental technologies. Former Member of Congress, with service on
Appropriations, Budget, Foreign Affairs, and Ethics Committees. Former
member of the Massachusetts House and Senate, and chair of the Senate
Ways and Means Committee. Author of Getting Elected.
(Honorary)
One of the foremost advocates on children's health and environmental issues.
Trustee of Environmental Defense, national committee member of "Mothers
and Others," Chairman of the National Council for Families and Television,
and co-founder of Congressional Spouses Human Rights Forum.
(Honorary)
Former Member of Congress. Currently Senior Counsel at Squire, Sanders
and Dempsey, L.L.P, a Washington-based worldwide law firm, and Senior
Visiting Scholar at the Mandel School of Applied Sciences Member at Case
Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
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