Sam Goodstein (he/him)

Sam Goodstein leads NRDC's congressional engagement and federal legislative strategy. Before joining NRDC, Goodstein served as executive vice president at Venn Strategies. Prior to that, he spent nearly two decades in the U.S. Senate, including eleven years as chief of staff to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. Before that, he was the senator's legislative director and chief counsel on the Judiciary Committee. He holds a BA and master's in public policy from the University of Michigan and a JD from Harvard Law School. He is based in Washington, D.C.