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SUSAN CASEY-LEFKOWITZ is a senior attorney with NRDC's international program. She focuses on protection of Canadian old-growth forests, and on trade and globalization issues. Susan received her law degree from the University of Virginia.
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RALPH CAVANAGH is a senior attorney and co-director of NRDC's energy program, which he joined in 1979. Ralph has been a visiting professor of law at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, a lecturer at Harvard Law School and he has been a faculty member of the University of Idaho's public utility executives course for more than a decade. From 1993 to 2003 he served on the U.S. Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board. His current board memberships include the Bipartisan Policy Center, the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, the California Clean Energy Fund, the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies, the Energy Center of Wisconsin, the Northwest Energy Coalition and the Renewable Northwest Project. He is a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy, established by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in 2002. Ralph has received the Heinz Award for Public Policy, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' Mary Kilmarx Award, the Yale Law School's Preiskel-Silverman Fellowship, the Lifetime Achievement in Energy Efficiency Award from California's Flex Your Power Campaign, the Northwest Energy Coalition's Headwaters Award, and the Bonneville Power Administration's Award for Exceptional Public Service. He is a graduate of Yale College and the Yale Law School. He is married to Deborah Rhode, who is the MacFarland Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.
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ALISON CHASE is the policy fellow for the New York/ New Jersey Harbor Bight project in NRDC's New York office. She has worked for and volunteered at agencies and organizations including the U.S. Department of the Interior, the League of Conservation Voters and the Sierra Club. Alison has also served as a senior associate for the strategic consulting firm of GMMB. Alison received her master of public administration degree in environmental science and policy from Columbia University and her bachelor's degree in political science from Colgate University.
Press contact: jpowers@nrdc.org, 212-727-2700
SARAH CHASIS is a senior attorney and director of NRDC's ocean initiative. Her work focuses on promoting the protection, maintenance and restoration of healthy ocean ecosystems, including healthy ocean fish populations and habitats. She is a graduate of Smith College and the New York University School of Law, where she is now an adjunct professor teaching an environmental law clinic.
Press contact: kslusark@nrdc.org, 212-727-2700
GABRIELA CHAVARRIA is the first director of NRDC's science center, created in 2006. Prior to joining NRDC, Gabriela was vice president for science and international conservation at Defenders of Wildlife and worked at the National Wildlife Federation and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Born and raised in Mexico, she earned a degree in biology from the National University of Mexico and earned her Ph.D. in organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard University.
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CHARLES CLUSEN is a senior policy analyst with NRDC's land program and has more than 30 years of achievement protecting our federal public lands, including leading the coalition to pass the Alaska Lands Act. Since joining NRDC in 1989, he has been the chief Washington, DC, advocate for protection of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as well as for national parks and other ecologically important lands throughout the country. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
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THOMAS B. COCHRAN, the Wade Greene Chair for Nuclear Policy, is a nuclear physicist and senior scientist in NRDC's nuclear program, as well as the author or co-author of several books and numerous articles on nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation and nuclear energy. He received his doctorate from Vanderbilt University in 1967 and has been with NRDC since 1973. Tom is currently a member of the Department of Energy's nuclear energy research advisory committee and has served on a number of government and non-government advisory committees. Tom received the American Physical Society's Szilard Award (1987) and the Federation of American Scientists' Public Service Award (1987). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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AARON COLANGELO is an attorney with NRDC's public health program, where he focuses on pesticides and safe drinking water litigation and advocacy. Prior to joining NRDC, he worked as a litigation associate at Covington & Burling. He is a graduate of Penn State University and Harvard Law School.
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