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MARICO SAYOC is an environmental analyst in NRDC's health program whose work focuses on reducing mercury pollution. Before joining NRDC, Marico worked at the EPA's Office of International Affairs and the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. She holds a master's degree in environmental management from Duke University and a bachelor's degree in environmental sciences from the University of California at Berkeley.
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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. Following 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, CA. 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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BRAD SEWELL is a senior attorney with NRDC's water and coastal 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 an attorney with NRDC's clean water project whose work focuses on pollution from livestock farms. 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. Before joining NRDC, Melanie worked as a biological technician and statistical consultant for the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center's CO2 Project, studying the effects of elevated carbon dioxide on a marsh ecosystem.
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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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MATT SKOGLUND is a wildlife advocate in Montana. He coordinates NRDC's bison campaign and also works to protect wolves and grizzly bears. Prior to joining NRDC, Matt served as a law clerk for the Honorable Morton Denlow in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and worked as an associate in the litigation group of Sonnenschein Nath amd Rosenthal LLP in Chicago. Matt obtained his B.A. from Middlebury College in 2001 and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Illinois College of Law in 2005.
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GINA SOLOMON is a senior scientist and physician with dual specialties 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 co-director of NRDC's ocean protection initiative and specializes in fisheries conservation and the effects of oil and gas development in coastal and offshore areas. She has been with NRDC since 1983. Lisa currently serves on the National Academy of Sciences' board on environmental studies and toxicology and was a member of the Academy's Committee on the Cumulative Impacts of Oil Development on Alaska's North Slope. She holds a master's degree from Yale University and a bachelor's degree from Mount Holyoke College.
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NANCY STONER is the director of NRDC's clean water project. Before joining NRDC Nancy was director of planning and policy analysis in the U.S. 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, finance and administration, and special projects. She also serves on the boards of the Open Space Institute and the Ploughshares Fund.
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