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S. JACOB SCHERR is a senior attorney and director of NRDC's international program. Since joining NRDC in 1976, Jacob has worked on the full range of global environmental and nuclear issues. Since the 1992 Earth Summit he has focused on developing innovative mechanisms to address the "implementation gap" -- the lack of governmental action to fulfill international commitments.
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MONTY SCHMITT is a scientist with NRDC's western water project and specializes in restoration of riverine ecosystems. He is the technical manager for the San Joaquin River restoration project. Prior to NRDC, Monty was the assistant director of the Ventana Wilderness Society in Big Sur, California. He received his bachelor's degree in biology and environmental studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a master's degree in watershed management from Humboldt State University.
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RICHARD SCHRADER is NRDC's New York legislative director, working to defend critical ecological and recreational landscapes throughout the state, such as the Catskills and Adirondacks. Schrader works on many other New York legislative and policy campaigns, including the development of alternative energy resources to strengthen energy security and the protection of endangered ocean resources both regionally and internationally. Before joining NRDC, Richard served as director for the New York State Trial Lawyers association, where he helped pass legislation to hold polluters more accountable to citizen suits. Under his tenure as deputy commissioner and commissioner of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs he took the lead in passing one of the nation's first laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors. He graduated from Fordham University and received a master's degree in journalism from Boston University.
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BRAD SEWELL is a senior attorney with NRDC's ceans program and director of the NRDC NY/NJ Harbor Bight project. His work focuses on NY/NJ marine environmental issues, including marine water quality and fisheries. He also works on south Florida environmental issues, including the Everglades. Brad has a bachelor's degree from Stanford University, a law degree from Columbia University and a master's in public health from the division of environmental sciences at Columbia's School of Public Health.
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MELANIE SHEPHERDSON is a staff attorney with NRDC's water program. Her work focuses on advocacy and litigation around water pollution issues, including factory farms, stormwater, sewer overflows, wetlands and watershed cleanup. Melanie holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Bucknell University and a law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law, where she concentrated in environmental law and received the Hoffberger Clinical Law Prize.
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PATRICE L. SIMMS is a senior project attorney in NRDC's air and energy and public health programs, where he specializes in coal-fired power plant issues. Before joining NRDC in 2005, Patrice worked as an attorney with the EPA Environmental Appeals Board. As an attorney in the air and radiation office of the EPA's Office of General Counsel, he worked on issues related to stationary-source air toxics and mobile sources of air emissions. He is a graduate of Northeastern University and Howard University School of Law.
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THOMAS SINGER is a senior policy analyst responsible for NRDC's clean energy program in New Mexico. He is based in Santa Fe. Prior to joining NRDC, Tom was a policy advisor to state governors, a researcher and a university professor. He holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, a master's from Stanford University and a doctorate in international business and finance from George Washington University.
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BRIAN SIU is an energy policy analyst with NRDC's air and energy program. His work focuses on clean fuels and climate policy. Prior to joining NRDC in 2007, he was a senior policy analyst at the Apollo Alliance, which promotes clean energy and energy efficiency as drivers of economic development. Brian received his JD from the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
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GINA SOLOMON is a senior scientist and physician in NRDC's health program. Gina specializes in internal medicine and occupational/environmental medicine. She is also an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco where she is a teaching physician at the pediatric environmental health specialty unit. She received her medical degree from Yale University and her specialty training at Harvard. She is a co-author of Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment.
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LISA SPEER is the director of NRDC's international oceans program. She specializes in conservation and management of ocean ecosystems in international waters beyond the jurisdiction of individual nations, an area that comprises roughly two-thirds of the world's oceans. She has been with NRDC since 1983. She holds a master's degree from Yale University and a bachelor's degree from Mount Holyoke College.
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NANCY STONER co-directs NRDC's water program. Before joining NRDC Nancy was director of planning and policy analysis in the EPA's Office of Enforcement. Prior to that she worked for nine years at the Justice Department. Nancy is a graduate of the University of Virginia and earned her law degree at Yale Law School.
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PATRICIA F. SULLIVAN, deputy executive director, joined NRDC in 1973 after working in the International Division of the Morgan Guaranty Trust. Her previous environmental experience includes co-producing "The Empty Nest," a film about the impact of pesticides on the osprey. Pattie oversees NRDC's institutional development and special projects. She also serves on the boards of the Open Space Institute and the Ploughshares Fund.
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