Our Experts

Ann Alexander

Senior Attorney, Dirty Energy, Lands Division, Nature Program

Ann Alexander works as a litigator and policy advocate with the Nature Program's Dirty Energy Team—fighting to curb polluting fossil fuel development that threatens the integrity of our public lands, and harms communities living in proximity. Before arriving at NRDC…

Josh Axelrod

Senior Advocate, Nature Program

Josh Axelrod focuses on issues including public land protection and conservation, renewable energy siting on public lands, limiting oil and gas development on public lands, energy transmission, and climate policy. Since joining NRDC in 2013, Axelrod has also developed expertise…

Roger Baneman

Advisor, Green Finance Center

Roger Baneman is an advisor to NRDC, working principally with the Green Finance Center. He is a retired tax partner of the law firm of Shearman & Sterling LLP. His projects have included the potential use for clean energy investing…

Julee Boan

Manager, Boreal Partnership, International Program

Julee Boan works collaboratively with Indigenous peoples and organizations, local and national conservation groups, plus industry and governments to protect Canada's boreal forest. She has a PhD in forest sciences, where she researched approaches to mitigate the impacts of industrial…

Sharon Buccino

Senior Attorney, Lands Division, Nature Program

Sharon Buccino's current work focuses on energy policy and government transparency. She actively litigates in federal court and advocates before federal agencies and Congress. She has worked to implement effective environmental review and public participation for proposed pipelines, as well…

Giulia C.S. Good Stefani

Senior Attorney, Marine Mammals, Oceans Division, Nature Program

Giulia C.S. Good Stefani works to protect marine mammals, wild places, and communities from environmental injustices. Stefani has worked on a variety of cases and campaigns at NRDC, including the effort to secure greater protection for whales from the U.S…

Sarah Dougherty

Director, Green Finance Center, People & Communities Program

Sarah Dougherty focuses on financial regulations related to climate change and green banks, as well as growing finance and economics expertise within NRDC. Before joining NRDC in 2015, Dougherty worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta where she held…

Kabir Green

Director, Federal Affairs, Government Affairs

Kabir Green, who joined NRDC in 2012, focuses on public lands issues, especially NRDC’s efforts to defend America's national monuments. He graduated from George Washington University's Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration with a master's in public administration…

Debbie Hammel

Deputy Director, Lands Division, Nature Program

As director of the Land Markets Initiative for NRDC’s Land & Wildlife program, Debbie Hammel concentrates on issues relating to bioenergy and sustainable forest management. With more than 30 years of experience in designing third-party environmental certification systems, she is…

Carolina Herrera

Senior Sustainable Finance Lead, International Program

Carolina Herrera’s work focuses on clean energy and sustainable development in Latin America, particularly in Mexico and Chile. She works to identify ways that the countries of Latin America can achieve their development goals while creating resilient communities and protecting…

Ashley Jordan

Boreal Corporate Campaign Advocate, International Program

Ashley Jordan provides technical and advocacy expertise for NRDC's corporate campaign to establish stronger protections for the Canadian boreal forest. Jordan joined NRDC in 2018 and previously supported the Canada Project as a program assistant and campaign coordinator. She holds…

Adam Kent

Senior Advisor, Green Finance Center, People & Communities Program

Adam Kent works at the intersection of finance and climate, with a particular focus on the role housing and community development finance play in creating a more equitable and environmentally sustainable economy. Prior to NRDC, Kent was the deputy director…

Taryn Kiekow Heimer

Deputy Director, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Nature Program

Taryn Kiekow Heimer directs two of the organization’s major campaigns: stopping the development of the environmentally disastrous Pebble Mine project proposed in Alaska’s Bristol Bay and putting an end to commercial whaling. She also leads our work to protect beluga…

Niel Lawrence

Alaska Director and Senior Attorney, Nature Program

Niel Lawrence oversees NRDC’s efforts to preserve and protect Alaska’s iconic land and seascapes—including the Arctic and vast Tongass rainforest—and helps guide efforts to end climate-wrecking oil exploration on federal lands. Prior to his current role, Lawrence directed NRDC’s national…

Courtenay Lewis

Manager of Ecosystems Policy, Canada Project, International Program

Courtenay Lewis advocates for policy solutions in Canada that benefit communities, species, and the larger ecosystems that support them. Prior to working at NRDC, Lewis promoted sustainable international policies at the Sierra Club, focusing on trade policy and curbing fossil…

Amy Mall

Senior Advocate, Dirty Energy, Lands Division, Nature Program

Amy Mall focuses on policies that protect clean air, clean water, wildlands, communities, and the climate from harmful energy industries, including fracking, oil and gas production, oil and gas pipelines, and forest biomass. Prior to joining NRDC in 2001, Mall…

Marilyn Martinez

Program Finance & Research Analyst, International Program

Marilyn Martinez supports NRDC’s Global Strategies team to address climate change at the international level—including efforts to enable green investments, promote clean energy, improve air quality, and protect wildlands—and to reduce global mercury pollution from artisanal small-scale mining operations in…

Bobby McEnaney

Director, Dirty Energy Project, Nature Program

In his work for NRDC, Bobby McEnaney has spearheaded several initiatives focused on promoting the sustainable development of energy resources on public lands while working to protect the nation’s lands and communities from the dirtier energy processes that threaten them…

Amy McNamara

Director, Northern Rockies, Nature Program

Amy McNamara’s experience lies in advancing community-driven conservation outcomes, private land conservation, and durable solutions for wildlife and public lands management. Throughout her career, she has promoted large-landscape connectivity across the intermountain west, the northeast, and in western Canada. Prior…

Damon Nagami

Senior Attorney, Lands Division, Nature Program

Damon Nagami is a senior attorney and director of NRDC’s Southern California Ecosystems Project, which focuses on oil and gas policy and advocacy, increasing equitable access to nature for low-income communities of color, and protecting open space and wildlife habitat…