JIM ACE, RUKUS SOCIETY
Over the last 2 years of
political activism with organizations like Greenpeace, The Ruckus Society,
Rainforest Action Network, and Earth First!, Jim Ace has participated in dozens
of non-violent direct actions as a trainer, coordinator, and campaigner. He has
direct personal experience using nonviolence tactics to transform potentially
violent situations.
ANN ALEXANDER, SENIOR ATTORNEY, NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
Ann Alexander is a Senior
Attorney with the Midwest Program of the Natural Resources Defense
Council. She is the lead attorney
at NRDC in its advocacy of improved water quality standards for the Chicago
River, and action against unlawful CSO and nutrient discharges to the
River. Her other work at NRDC
covers a range of regionally significant issues, including advocacy for clean
energy and against polluting coal plants and petroleum refineries. Previously, she served as Environmental
Counsel to Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, overseeing a broad range of
environmental initiatives; and as a Clinical Professor of Law at the Rutgers
Environmental Law Clinic in Newark, New Jersey. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University in
1984, and he law degree from Columbia University in 1987.
FREDRIC P. ANDES, PARTNER, BARNES & THORNBURG LLP
Fredric P. Andes is a
partner in the Chicago and Washington, D.C. offices of Barnes & Thornburg
LLP, Chairman of the Environmental Department and the leader of the firm's
water team. He was selected by the EPA to serve on the Federal Advisory
Committee on the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Program. He is serving as
coordinator for the Federal Water Quality Coalition, which is a group of
municipal and other regulated parties that is participating in EPA's rulemaking
on TMDLs and other key Clean Water Act programs. Mr. Andes graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School
in 198. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University in
1977. He is admitted to practice in the state of Illinois, the District of
Columbia, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the
District of Columbia, and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth,
Sixth, Seventh, Tenth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits.
DR. CYNTHIA ANNETT, SCIENCE ADVISOR, KANSAS RIVERKEEPER
Dr. Annett holds a PhD from
UC Berkeley and specializes in the ecology of prairie rivers. As the Science
Advisor to the Kansas Riverkeeper, she has helped to conduct the Kansas River
Inventory and has developed an extensive online warehouse of data on the
geomorphology, hydrology, water quality, and ecology of the Kansas River. Using
freeware such as Google Sites, Maps, Earth and other integrated programs, she
is creating complex online landscapes exploring all aspects of our
relationships to the river (http://kansasriver.org ,
http://kansasriverinventory.org , http://kansasriverscience.org ). These
materials have been used in K-12 education, university courses, and for public outreach.
With Ron Hall she is one of the founders of the Citizen Mapper initiative.
BRUCE BELL
Dr. Bell is an environmental
engineer with over 39 years of environmental engineering experience. His areas
of expertise include wastewater, stormwater, water quality management, facility
evaluations, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
Permitting, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) corrective measures,
and litigation support. Dr. Bell has been a systems manager for a major environmental
equipment manufacturer. He has been a Project Manager and Vice President of
Flood and Associates; a regional environmental engineering consulting firm. Dr.
Bell has extensive experience in academia. He was an instructor in the Civil
Engineering Department at New York University for four years where he taught
numerous undergraduate courses in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He was
Professor of Engineering and directed the Environmental Engineering Program in
the Department of Civil, Mechanical, and Environmental Engineering at The
George Washington University, where for nine years he developed and taught
undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental engineering. During his
tenure at The George Washington University, Dr. Bell also directed and
sponsored graduate research while he served as a reviewer for the National
Science Foundation. He also was an Adjunct Professor of Engineering at the New
Jersey Institute of Technology where he taught a graduate course in Analysis of
Receiving Waters
JOHN BIANCHI
John Bianchi is a Vice
President in the New York Office of Goodman Media International, Inc. With an
extensive background media relations, communications, and public policy work,
Bianchi has more than 2 years of experience in both the business and
not-for-profit sectors. Prior to joining Goodman Media, Bianchi served eight
years as the Director of Communications for the National Audubon Society, the
nation’s leading voice in bird and wildlife conservation. While there, he
created strategic communications and media plans for the century-old
organization, helped lead an organization-wide re-branding effort, provided
media support for Audubon public policy efforts, and helped conceive and launch
several new conservation programs for volunteers, driving participation in
these into the millions entirely through publicity placements. From 1993 to
1996, Bianchi was Manager of News Information at NBC News, where he created and
implemented a publicity campaigns for “Dateline NBC.” By the time of his departure
in 1996, “Dateline” had become NBC’s first newsmagazine success, and had grown
to become a thrice-weekly franchise. Earlier, Bianchi was a Press
Representative for CBS News from 1992 to 1993. In that capacity, he conducted
publicity efforts for “CBS This Morning” and worked on coverage of the
Republican and Democratic National Conventions. He worked on CBS News’ coverage
of the 1992 Presidential campaign, arranging press events including several
town meetings with the Bush, Clinton, and Perot campaigns, and also provided
press support for “CBS This Morning” Rose Garden broadcasts with Presidents
Bush and Clinton. From 1989 to
1992, Bianchi was a Senior Publicist at Turner Broadcasting System in New York
City, where he handled publicity for CNN Business News, “Special Assignment,”
and the Persian Gulf War. He began his career as a publicity coordinator at NBC
News, where he provided publicity support for “Meet the Press”, “NBC Nightly
News with Tom Brokaw”, and “Today”, and worked on the network’s Decision ’88
Presidential campaign coverage.
Bianchi graduated Cum Laude from Tufts University. A native New Yorker,
he lives in Manhattan with his wife and two daughters.
CASI CALLAWAY, MOBILE BAYKEEPER
Casi (kc) Callaway is YOUR
Mobile Baykeeper! We are teaching
local people to advocate for the most important waterways in their worlds (the
one in their front yard) and statewide and coastal people that Alabama's 53
miles of beach front property not only protects our 67 miles of tidal
shoreline, but it also drives the economy for the state and much of the Gulf
coast. If you keep dumping dirt on
our environment, we're going to have a mud fight!
HARTWELL CARSON, FRENCH BROAD RIVERKEEPER
Hartwell is a native of
Macon, GA. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of Georgia
studying Recreation and Resource Management. While a student there, he worked
with the Outdoor Recreation Center as an environmental educator and guide.
After working for the Forest Service in Colorado, Hartwell earned his Masters
of Science from the University of Montana, where he conducted extensive work
examining social and ecological impacts on the Upper Missouri River Breaks
National Monument. Hartwell has been the French Broad Riverkeeper for the last
four years, one of 19+ Waterkeepers who are networked through the Waterkeeper
Alliance. As the French Broad Riverkeeper Hartwell has worked for the last six
years to monitor pollution and protect the water quality of the French Broad
River. Hartwell enjoys the French Broad Watershed by biking, hiking , kayaking,
and canoeing every chance he gets. Hartwell can often be found canoeing his
favorite stretch of the French Broad from Bent Creek to Asheville Outdoor
Center with his wife Jessica, daughter Evan, and dog June Bug
DANIEL COOPER, STORMWATER LAWYER
Daniel Cooper and Layne
Friedrich formed Lawyers for Clean Water over 13 years ago and provide legal
representation to the Keeper organizations including filing suit in federal
court to enforce stormwater permits, and in state court to challenge illegal
stormwater permits. Layne and Daniel have successfully settled many stormwater
suits and obtained court orders enforcing numeric water quality standards in
stormwater permits.
DON FRANCIS, ECOTECH ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
Don Francis began his
grassroots environmental outreach efforts with non-governmental environmental
and public health advocacy organizations. Beginning with GreenPeace USA, Don
has worked throughout the U.S. working with local grassroots organizations,
including working with Lois Gibbs to help stop the resettlement of the Love
Canal neighborhood in Niagara Falls, NY. Don’s has worked as a community
organizer and researcher for Northwest Environmental Advocates (NWEA) in
Portland. While at NWEA Don approached the Black United Front and the
International Refugee Center of Oregon to warn users of the Columbia Slough –
predominately low-income and people of color folks – about the pollution
related dangers of swimming in and eating dioxin and PCB contaminated fish.
This outreach effort included posting multi-lingual signs along the Columbia
Slough and distributing thousands of multilingual warning pamphlets and was the
first Environmental Justice effort in Oregon (The Oregonian Editorial
http://www.ccrh.org/comm/slough/primary/door.htm -- also Pages 3 – 318
“American Environmental History” By Louis S. Warren [23]). At NWEA Don also
directed the organization’s Local Community Assistance Program (LCAP). LCAP
assisted community groups by assisting with technical and regulatory assessment
and advocacy strategy for people involved in local efforts to protect their
communities from toxic compounds.
GREY HECHT
Grey is a Waterkeeper
Alliance Trustee and a Board member of the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center.
Grey and his family have lived in southern Oregon since 1997. He is president
of the Sangham Foundation, an organic farmer, and owner of a green construction
firm. Grey has a B.A. in environmental studies from Southern Oregon University.
CHASIDY FISHER HOBBS, EMERALD COASTKEEPER
Chasidy Fisher Hobbs draws
daily inspiration from Margaret Mead’s famous words, “Never underestimate the
power a few dedicated citizens have to change the world; indeed that is all
that ever has.” Evidence of Chasidy’s belief in that concept and her passion
for protecting the environment dates back to the early 199s, when a local
newspaper printed a picture of her holding a sign that read, “NO Valdez in Gulf
Breeze.” Since those early days of concerned activism, she has earned a
master’s degree in Environmental Science, provided environmental consulting
services to Northwest Florida businesses, was Director of Earthday Pensacola,
and has dedicated hundreds of volunteer hours on projects ranging from
environmental justice to education and outreach to ecosystem restoration.
BOB KALLEN
Robert Kallen has taught for
25 years and is currently a visiting professor of economics and Director of the
MS program in economics and policy analysis at DePaul University. He was the recipient of the 27 Daniel
Seiden-Adjunct Teaching Award at DePaul and is an adjunct professor at the Lake
Forest Graduate School of Management, where he received the 22 Distinguished
Faculty Award and the 27, 28 and 29 Teaching Excellence Award. He has also developed two new
courses on business ethics, which concentrate on the critical divides of race,
class and gender issues as well as a course on business, government and
democracy. Bob is currently the Secretary-Treasurer of the Concord Coalition
Citizens' Council (a not-for-profit organization dedicated to deficit
reduction), Treasurer of the Integrated Pest Management Institute and Treasurer
of the Barat Education Foundation Board where he established
Diversity-Forums.org, which provides panels to educational and corporate
institutions to discuss issues surrounding race, class, gender, and business
ethics. Bob received a B.A.
in History and Economics from the University of Illinois, and a M.A. in
Economics and a J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. Finally, in 22, Mr. Kallen was awarded
a Rockefeller Next Generation Leadership Fellowship.
DREW KOSLOW, CHOPTANK RIVERKEEPER, CHOPTANK RIVER EASTERN BAY CONSERVATORY
Drew Koslow began as our Choptank RIVERKEEPER in April 29. Drew is a biologist and noted clean
water advocate who was instrumental in starting the successful South River
Federation and served as its president from 1999-22. He then went on to serve
for four years as its first full-time South RIVERKEEPER. As Riverkeeper, Drew was successful
building partnerships with local government, communities and churches that
resulted in meaningful projects getting implemented. Drew has a masters degree
in Marine Science from the University of Virginia and spent many years at both
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Maryland Department of Natural
Resources working as a clean water advocate. He has a combined eighteen years of experience working on
Chesapeake Bay related environmental issues. At the DNR, Drew worked with
commercial pound net fishermen including many from Tilghman Island. He also worked for two years conducting
water quality monitoring throughout the Chesapeake watershed. He brings vitally
important experience and expertise to his role as a full-time Riverkeeper for
the Choptank watershed.
DONNA LISENBY, UPPER WATAUGA RIVERKEEPER
In 28, Donna Lisenby became
the first Upper Watauga Riverkeeper. She has produced 24 videos about her life
and work as the full-time public advocate for the Watauga and Elk River
watersheds. In the 13 years that she has served has served as both the Catawba
Riverkeeper and Upper Watauga Riverkeeper, Ms. Lisenby was named “Charlotte’s
Best Advocate” by Charlotte Magazine in May, 2, a “1999 Guardian of the
Environment” by The Charlotte Observer and given the Best of Charlotte Awards for
“Best Effort to Improve the Environment” in 1999, 2 and 24. In September, 29
Donna was chosen as an Environmental Hero by journalism students at the
University of NC who produced a video about her work. She also appeared as the
environmental expert in the movie, “Wal-mart: The High Cost of Low Prices.”
Donna is a tenacious and highly experienced environmental advocate who was
recruited to Appalachian Voices to specialize in researching and stopping the
polluting impact of dirty coal on southern Appalachian waterways. She is also a national leader of the
Waterkeeper Alliance where she serves with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr on the Board
of Directors and helped launch Waterkeeper Alliance’s anti-coal campaign
website, The Dirty Lie.
JAY LONGO, GENSLER ARCHITECTURE
Jay Longo is a Design
Director, the North Central Regional Sustainable Design Director, and regional
leader for both the Headquarters and Commercial Office Building practice areas
for the Chicago office of Gensler.
As a LEED AP professional since 22, his commitment to sustainable design
has led to the implementation of numerous green strategies such as green roofs,
natural ventilation, day lighting, rainwater harvesting, and use of innovative
green materials in different USGBC LEED rated buildings including office
buildings, research laboratories, hotels, and community centers. He has worked with local governmental
agencies, such as the Illinois Department of Public Health and City of
Chicago's Department of Construction and Permits, to advocate innovative storm
water management strategies for sewer conveyance, which are currently not
addressed in the building codes.
He has been invited to participate in numerous speaking engagements and
sustainable design programs with the University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago
Historical Society, on National Public Radio, and with local public Chicago
television.
HERB LUSTER, BOEING
Herbert Luster is Director
of Strategy for Global Corporate Citizenship for the Boeing Company. His remit
is to steer the development and implementation of Boeing's Corporate
Citizenship strategy worldwide. In his previous assignment as Director of
European Union Affairs, Lust was based in Belgium where he worked closely with
European governments, scientists and NGOs to develop and implement Boeing's
environmental strategy in the region.
BART MIHAILOVICH, SPOKANE RIVERKEEPER
Bart Mihailovich was hired
as Spokane Riverkeeper in August 21, bringing to the barely year-old program
over six years of environmental journalism, communication, outreach and social
media experience. As Spokane Riverkeeper Bart is combining his passion for the
cause with his communications and organizing skills to raise awareness for a
cleaner Spokane River. Bart has
been recently working with Kansas Riverkeeper, Ron Hall and the Citizen Mapper
project to incorporate Google mapping technology and citizen mapping to the
Spokane Riverkeeper program
CHAUNCEY MORAN, YELLOW DOG RIVERKEEPER
Chauncey Moran became part
of the WATERKEEPER®Alliance in the fall of 28. Since then, he has continued his
role in being the primary contact for water quality and violation issues. Chauncey has spent many years working
with our group and has been a fou
DIANE MORGAN
Diane Morgan is the Development
and Communications Director at Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER. She has been
working to implement the Benevon model of fundraising at the organization since
the beginning of 2011. Prior to
joining RIVERKEEPER Diane spent over 15 years as a National Sales Manager
in the consumer electronics industry working for THQ, iWin and Encore Software.
In addition to working with major US retailers Diane also established
international connections licensing product throughout the UK
and Europe.
ANDREW MULLER, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, USNA
Andrew grew up in Marine
Park, Brooklyn, NY, and became interested in marine science when in junior high
a teacher at PS138 took him to Garritsen Creek and explained how the water
quality and marine life is in NY.
Andrew went to school for Oceanography at Beach Channel High School,
Queens, NY. He then went on to
receive degrees from Adelphi and Old Dominion University in oceanography. His current research focuses on the
physio-chemical processes that affect and effect the health of estuaries and
rivers.
DIANA MULLER, SOUTH RIVERKEEPER, SOUTH RIVER FEDERATION
Diana grew up in Tumwater,
WA on lower Puget Sound; her family camped for weeks on end, fishing, and
growing organic vegetable gardens; by the time she entered high school, she
became an activist for the Straits of Juan De Fuca and Puget Sound. In college
she made use of her own boat to collect water samples and oiled seabirds from
oil spills. After graduating from The Evergreen State College with a degree in
Chemistry and Marine Science, Diana moved to the East Coast to work with the
Chesapeake Bay Long Term Monitoring Project. Since that time she has worked her
way up through laboratory and field sampling to management and environmental
law. Diana, her husband and two kids moved to the South River Watershed in
Selby-on-the-Bay. Diana brings with her 22 years of valuable experience in
riverine and estuarine water quality, ecology, microbiology and environmental
law. Being a Riverkeeper is a more
than a job: it is a lifestyle. It
is her mission to provide cleaner waterways for the generations to come.
CHERYL NENN
Milwaukee Riverkeeper Cheryl
Nenn earned a B.S. in Biology from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign in 1994 and an M.S. in Resource Ecology and Management from
the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment in 1999.
Her master’s thesis research investigated the conservation and management of
the Columbia spotted frog (candidate species) and Lahontan cutthroat trout
(federally threatened species) on federally managed lands in central and
northeast Nevada. Before joining FMR, her job experience included: consulting
on environmental projects and writing environmental assessments for the U.S.
Forest Service, as well as writing management plans for Wisconsin DOT wetland
mitigation sites; providing forestry and wildlife related information to
private landowners in southeast Michigan for the Michigan DNR and Dept. of
Agriculture; and helping manage forest restoration, reforestation, and erosion
control projects for the City of New York, Department of Parks and Recreation.
She also served as a forestry extension/environmental education Peace Corps
volunteer in Ecuador, and as a Crisis Corps volunteer in Honduras, helping with
community rebuilding and reforestation projects after Hurricane Mitch.
BOB NEWPORT
Bob Newport in a Stormwater
Specialist who works in the Region 5 (Chicago) office of the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency. He works with States, local units of government, and NGOs on
issues related to land use, development practices, stormwater management, and
combined sewer overflow control. He leads and participates in activities in the
region related to Low Impact Development and Green Infrastructure. Bob has
supported EPA work on green infrastructure as an element of CSO control
programs in Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Milwaukee.
JANELLE ROBBINS, ASSOCIATE DIRECTION OF WATERKEEPER SUPPORT,
WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE
Janelle joined Waterkeeper
Alliance in 23 as a research fellow to write A Citizen’s Guide to Manure
Treatment Technologies. Janelle
now fields scientific and water monitoring questions from our ever-growing
Waterkeeper organizations, coordinates our anti-coal campaign, The Dirty Lie,
covers the scientific and engineering aspects of our other campaigns and
oversees the domestic growth and sustainability of the Waterkeeper movement in
the United States. Janelle has
been featured as a Green Guru in the “Green Babies” books, in Glamour’s 29
green issue as a female eco-achiever and as a success story in the forthcoming
“Ten Ways to Change the World in Your Twenties” and is also a LEED (Leadership
in Energy and Environmental Design) Accredited Professional.
BILL SCHULTZ
Bill Schultz founded the
Raritan RIVERKEEPER program ten years ago. He is a retired Captain & shift commander in a career
fire service, a certified hazardous materials technician and instructor in
water rescue. Schultz has served
with various underwater search and recovery teams. He has also been a volunteer with the Marine Mammal
Stranding Center for many years.
CAPTAIN BILL SHEEHAN, HACKENSACK RIVERKEEPER
Captain Bill Sheehan, the
Hackensack Riverkeeper, is a lifelong resident of the Hackensack River area,
having lived most of his life in Union City and Secaucus, New Jersey. He is a
dedicated, active conservationist who founded Hackensack Riverkeeper in 1997
and serves as the organization's Executive Director. Captain Bill, as he is
known to most people, holds a Master of Inland Waterways license from the US
Coast Guard, serves on the NY-NJ Harbor Estuary Program Citizens Advisory
Committee, is a founding (and current) member of the Bergen County Trust Fund
Public Advisory Committee and is the current Chair of the Meadowlands
Conservation Trust.
HAL SPRAGUE, CENTER FOR
NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY
Hal Sprague is Manager of
Water Policy at the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago and a
recovering environmental lawyer. His work at CNT focuses on the promotion of
laws and policies to increase the use of green infrastructure as a standard
stormwater management approach. Prior to joining CNT, Hal practiced
environmental law for 23 years, with stints at the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency Office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a major law firm in
Harford, Connecticut, and the last 14 years at Abbott Laboratories in Lake
County, Illinois.
BRETT VANDENHEUVEL
Brett VandenHeuvel is the
Executive Director of Columbia Riverkeeper. Prior to Riverkeeper, he conducted
research on climate change during field expeditions to Antarctica and Alaska.
For four years, Brett also worked for the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
as a naturalist and educator at field stations outside of Fossil and Bend,
Oregon. Brett graduated with honors from Lewis and Clark Law School, started a
solo law practice representing environmental groups, and joined Columbia
Riverkeeper as a staff attorney. He enjoys fighting for clean water.
CARLA GARCÍA ZENDEJAS
Carla García Zendejas is a
recognized environmental attorney from Mexico whose expertise is respected
internationally. Her knowledge and perspective derives from her extensive work
for international and national organizations on economic, environmental and
social issues. In the past fifteen years she has achieved numerous successes in
cases involving energy infrastructure, water pollution, environmental justice
and development of government transparency legislation. Carla has empowered
activists with critical knowledge to fight environmentally damaging and
potentially hazardous liquefied natural gas terminals not only on the Baja California
peninsula but also on the U.S. Pacific Coast and in Spain. As a Fulbright
Scholar she earned a Masters in Law from the Washington College of Law at
American University. Carla currently serves as the Senior Program Officer for
Business, Environment and Human Rights at the Due Process of Law Foundation a
regional non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. devoted to promoting
the rule of law and human rights in Latin America. Carla is a board member of
the Madgalena Baykeeper and Tijuana Waterkeeper as well as serving on the Board
of Directors of the Waterkeeper Alliance.
