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S. JACOB SCHERR is NRDC's Director of Global Strategy and Advocacy. He is responsible for overseeing international activities throughout the organization. Since joining NRDC in 1976, he has served as International Program Director, BioGems Initiative Director, and Senior Attorney. Jacob has worked extensively on the full range of international environmental and nuclear issues. Among his many accomplishments, he was a leader of the historic nuclear test ban verification project with the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the successful campaign to save Laguna San Ignacio in Baja, Mexico -- the last pristine gray whale nursery. Jacob is also currently leading NRDC's preparations for the Rio+20 "Earth Summit" in June 2012.
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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, representing the organization in Albany and leading successful environmental campaigns throughout the state. A veteran environmental leader in New York, his campaigns and legislative efforts have preserved a million acres of wilderness, dramatically increased clean energy and efficiency, invested in green jobs, increased ocean conservation, and restricted the oil and gas companies' efforts to drill the in the state without adequate environmental and health protections for New Yorkers. Prior to NRDC, he served as the Public Affairs Director of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and as New York City's Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, where he led the creation of one of the nation's first laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors. Rich is a graduate of 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 oceans program and directs the ocean program's Atlantic coast and federal fisheries activities. He also directs NRDC's Everglades project. Brad is an adjunct professor at Columbia University's School of Law and Columbia's School of Public Health, Division of Environmental Sciences. 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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KATE SINDING is a senior attorney and deputy director of NRDC's New York urban program. Her work includes advancing recycling programs for used electronics (e-waste) and ensuring the proposed natural gas drilling in New York State is subject to the most stringent environmental and health protections. She also works on advancing smart growth for communities in the New York region, as well as other waste and land use matters. Prior to joining NRDC in November 2006, Kate was a partner in the specialty environmental law firm of Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C. Kate is a member of the board of the New York Product Stewardship Council and sits on the Manhattan Citizens' Solid Waste Advisory Board. She has taught Environmental Law at Columbia University and Fordham University Schools of Law. Kate is a graduate of New York University Law School, the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and Barnard College.
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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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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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SCOTT SLESINGER is NRDC's legislative director. He works with NRDC staff to develop strategies for advancing environmental legislation and lobbies Congress on behalf of the organization. Before joining NRDC, Scott was vice-president of government affairs of the Environmental Technology Council representing companies that recycle, destroy and dispose of regulated hazardous waste. Previously, he worked for the Senate Budget Committee on energy and environment issues and as the environmental aide to Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) when Lautenberg chaired the Subcommittee on Superfund and Hazardous Waste. He served as a counsel to the House Subcommittee on Water Resources and worked at the Environmental Protection Agency drafting some of the original regulations under the Clean Water Act. He has a B.A. in political science and a law degree from the State University at Buffalo.
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GINA SOLOMON is a senior scientist in NRDC's health and environment program, and a health sciences clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco, where she is also the director of the occupational and environmental medicine residency and fellowship program. Gina is a specialist in internal medicine and occupational and environmental medicine, and her work has included research on asthma, diesel exhaust, pesticides, the health effects of climate change, and threats to reproductive health and child development. Gina serves on the EPA's Science Advisory Board, the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Toxicology Program, and the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Exposure Assessment for the 21st Century. She is also on the California Biomonitoring Scientific Guidance Panel. Gina has authored over 40 articles and reports, and is co-author of the book, Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment, published by MIT Press. She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University, attended medical school at Yale, and did her residency and fellowship training at Harvard.
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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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CAI STEGER is an Energy Policy Analyst at NRDC's new Center for Market Innovation, focusing on federal and state policies that drive clean technology innovation, investment and deployment, with a concentration on renewable energy -- especially solar and algae biofuels. His recent projects include developing a federal deployment mechanism to encourage large-scale penetration of distributed generation, analyzing impacts of climate legislation on renewables investment, and managing a year-long project to understand the sustainability of algae biofuels production. He joined NRDC in 2008. He has an MBA from Columbia business school, a BA from University of California, Santa Barbara, and eight years of strategy, research and business development experience in multiple industries.
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LISA SUATONI is a senior scientist in the oceans program. She works on a variety of topics including fisheries, marine-ecosystem based management, climate change impacts on marine ecosystems and ocean acidification. Lisa has master's degree in environment studies from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Yale University. Her scientific research focused on speciation and the evolution of reproductive isolation.
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SAMIR SUCCAR is a staff scientist with NRDC's Center for Market Innovation. Prior to joining NRDC, Samir was a member of the research staff of the Energy Systems Analysis group at the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) of Princeton University. His work there focused on integration issues associated with utility scale renewable energy and on enabling technologies for intermittent generation. Recent studies focused on the implementation of energy storage as a strategy for enhancing transmission infrastructure utilization and mitigating the intermittency of renewable energy. Compressed air energy storage (CAES) is of particular interest in this regard due to its potential for low cost and widespread availability. Other research activities include optimization of wind turbine rating for wind/storage systems and analysis of the competition of utility-scale wind/storage plants with other low- carbon technologies such as coal IGCC with CCS. In 2008 Samir earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University under the guidance of Bob Williams at PEI.
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