Catalina Garzón-Galvis is Principal Practitioner at Community Research and Education in Action for True Empowerment (CREATE). In this role, Catalina plans and facilitates leadership development, popular education, participatory research...
Jessica is a doctoral student in environmental health sciences at the BU School of Public Health. She found her way to public health through environmental advocacy and the realization that talking about health is a good way to engage people...
Dr. Michael Wilson is National Director for Occupational and Environmental Health at the BlueGreen Alliance, a coalition of labor unions and environmental NGOs, where he leads the organization’s efforts to protect workers and vulnerable...
A 2009 Switzer Fellow, Alexa graduated from a joint law and public policy degree program at UCLA's Law School and School of Public Affairs in 2011. She focused her studies on environmental law and policy, especially as it is applied to...
Sue Chiang joined San Francisco’s Department of the Environment in late August 2024 as the Senior Commercial Toxics Reduction Coordinator. Two exciting areas of work that Sue and her team manage include the San Francisco Green Business...
Jackie is a Senior Attorney on NRDC's litigation team in San Francisco, where she litigates a broad range of environmental cases in state and federal court. Before joining NRDC, she practiced environmental and land use law on behalf of...
Helen graduated from Stanford in 1995 with a B.S. in Earth Systems. She received the Firestone Prize for her honors thesis on construction and demolition waste recycling in Hong Kong. She interned in the environmental remediation department...
Amy Wilson Morris has led community-based park, trail, and open space planning projects throughout the western United States. She specializes in working with diverse partners to build community consensus and leading a wide range of...
Katherine is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Science at Brown University. Her research group at Brown works in the field of Conservation Medicine - an emerging discipline that resides at the intersection of environmental...
Southern California is notorious for its chronically polluted water bodies, from the affluent areas of Malibu to the more industrial city of Long Beach. California Assembly Bill 411 requires that city and county health departments regularly monitor impaired water bodies for fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) and that they notify the public of water quality problems.
