from the George Washington University Law School. His portfolio as a legislative assistant focused on foreign policy in Africa and South America, homeland security, health care, appropriations, and environmental justice. The Culture of Encounter and the Global Agenda, Politicization of Religion in Global Perspective, Religion and the Crisis of Displaced Persons, Revitalizing Global Religious and Interfaith Networks, Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy, Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue. Aaron Szabo brings more than a decade of government experience to CGCN in federal energy and environmental policy. She oversees the Georgetown Climate Centers work at the nexus of climate and energy policy, supervising staff and student work on climate mitigation and adaptation at the state and federal level. Ms. Schiffer is the recipient of the Charles Fahy Distinguished Adjunct Professor Award at Georgetown University Law Center; of the Edmund J. Randolph Award for outstanding service at the Department of Justice; of an honorary law degree from Vermont Law School (2017); and of the American Bar Association Section on Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Lifetime Achievement Award (2018). He's served on various U.S. National Academy committees and is the author of more than 80 professional publications. He stresses that if we dont fix our own houses, its really difficult for us to show up in an authentic way for others. Some people in the seminar asked how they can do that if they arent in a position of power in their organization; to that, Dr. Ali replied You have power unless you give it away. Power comes in many different forms, and its all about figuring out what kind of power you hold and then working on applying it to create change within issues you care about. She also served as a member of the Sex Crimes and Welfare Fraud Prosecution units. Senior Environmental Planner at Northern Virginia Regional Commission; former Co-Program Manager for Europe, Office of International Affairs, EPA. Ms. Schroeder has a masters degree in Public Policy and Management and a Bachelor of Science Degree from University of Wisconsin. As a freelancer, she has covered the environment, immigration, economic development, and international politics, and her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, FORTUNE, National Geographic News, The Lancet and several other publications. Throughout his career, Mustafa Ali has conducted over 1,000 presentations worldwide, including speeches, guest lecturers and trainings. Prior to joining the Hip Hop Caucus, Mustafa worked 24 years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Snape is a masters swimmer and water polo player, has coached at both the Division I and Division III levels of college swimming, and was named the 2011 world swim coach of the year by the International Committee of Sports for the Deaf. Mustafa Ali previously co-hosted a live radio show and podcast, Think 100% The Coolest Show on Climate Change, with Antonique Smith & Rev. He is a former officer of the Environmental Law Institute, a past regent with the American College of Environmental Lawyers, and a life member in the American Law Institute. His portfolio as a Legislative Assistant focused on Foreign Policy in Africa and South America, Homeland Security, Health Care, Veterans Affairs and Environmental Justice. Executive Vice President The Chesapeake Legal Alliance is a nonprofit organization based in Annapolis which coordinates a network of lawyers and law firms who provide free legal services relating to the protection and restoration of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, including strategic planning, training and education programs. Posts By This Author Why I Vote by Richard Rohr, by Myrna. Work was active in more than 49 countries. President, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions; former Deputy Administrator, EPA. His recent refereed journal articles were on the supply chain management as private sector regulation in Business Strategy and the Environment (2016, with Manjyot Bhan), the role of sustainability in governance in Public Administration Review (2010); explanations for differences in national environmental performance in Policy Sciences (2011); and innovation in renewable energy in Policy Studies Journal (2013). He has also worked with over 500 domestic and international communities to secure environmental, health and economic justice. Prior to joining the BP Washington team, Jim served as HSE Managing Counsel for BP Legal, handling a wide variety of HSE issues. To address our most pressing issues on climate change and environmental justice, we must honor that Communities speak for themselves. By working together in authentic collaborative partnerships, we can make real change happen. He served in the US Army to the rank of Captain, 1966-1968. Mr. Roberts draws upon his over 20 years of experience in federal Indian law to assist Tribes in reaching solutions on Federal Indian law matters administratively or in the courts. Hawkins has held positions with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and was head of the District of Columbia Department of the Environment. In 2012, Mustafa launched the EPAs Environmental Justice in Action Blog, which reached over 100,000 followers. National Advocacy Center // Washington, D.C. A renowned thought leader, international speaker, policy maker, community liaison, trainer, and facilitator, Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali serves as the Executive Vice Presidentfor the National Wildlife Federation. Hide. Dr. Ali has been featured in over 250 news publications, including GQ, New Republic, Ebony, Bustle, The Guardian, The Root, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. He is also the founder of Revitalization Strategies, a business focused on moving our most vulnerable communities from surviving to thriving.. Hide. Throughout his career, Mustafa Ali has conducted over 1,000 presentations worldwide, including speeches, guest lecturers and trainings. Previously, she practiced environmental law with Kilpatrick Stockton in Washington DC and other firms and served in two offices at U.S. EPA: the Office of Air and Radiation and the Office of Research and Development, where she reviewed development of standards under the Clean Air Act. Bob Perciasepe is President of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), which is widely recognized in the United States and internationally as a leading, independent voice for practical policy and action to address our energy and climate challenges. In that position, Mr. George provided strategy for all wastewater, stormwater and drinking water operations. Lennox Yearwood. He is co-producer of Hot Air, a radio podcast show on global warming policy and regulation. As Administrator, she adopted the most stringent air pollution standards in U.S. history; set for the first time, a fine particle clean air standard; and spearheaded the reauthorization of the Safe Drinking Water Act as well as the Food Quality Protection Act. Prior to joining DuPont, Ms. Fisher served in a number of leadership positions in government and industry including senior roles at the US Environmental Protection Agency, where she was Deputy Administrator, Chief of Staff to the Administrator and Assistant Administrator of the Office of Pesticides and Toxics. Medearis has been awarded fellowships to study urban and environmental planning in Europe from the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, the European Union, and the American Council on Germany. Hayes has also served as Director of the Illinois State Energy Office, Visiting Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Fellow of the Worldwatch Institute, Fellow at the Bellagio Center, and Richard von Weizscker Fellow of the Bosch Foundation. Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, 3307 M Street NW, Suite 200 Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP; Former Deputy General Counsel at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Former Chief of the U.S. Department of Justices (DOJ) Environmental Crimes Section (ECS). Ms. Rudolph received her JD from Georgetown University Law Center. He served as the groups chief operating officer from 2004 to 2009, and worked to protect wetlands and expand environmental education, especially in urban areas. Previously, he was Director of the FTCs Bureau of Economics, where he supervised economic analysis and advised the Commission on economic policy matters. She also led strategic projects at Walmart on particularly complex sustainability issues, such as seafood. A native of North Carolina and resident of Maryland, Vann's stories investigate issues around the intersection of politics and power in America. He most recently served as senior advisor for environmental justice and community revitalization and assistant associate administrator, working to elevate environmental justice issues and strengthening environmental justice policies, programs, and initiatives. A source quoted by Chambers said Ron has "a unique combination of being a skilled environmental lawyer and being able to clearly communicate to his clients and develop a path forward. He was awarded the Administrator's Gold Medal in 1997 for his work on safe drinking water legislative reforms. He began his career as a law clerk for Judge Edward R. Becker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1987-88. Prior to government service, Mr. Reeder volunteered for active duty in the US Army. Tony Williams, the former Mayor of Washington, D.C. (1999 2007), is the current Chief Executive Officer of the Federal City Council, an organization focusing the creative and administrative talents of Washingtons business and professional leaders on major problems and opportunities facing the District. DC Water has been the recipient of almost every major award in the industry, including most recently, the 2016 US Water Prize for its resource recovery efforts. from the Harvard Law School, as well as a number of awards and honorary degrees, including Governing Magazine Public Official of the Year in 1997. He has worked in the environmental industry for years in several roles, including as a lawyer and a regulator. Deputy Director of the Center for State, Tribal, and Local Environmental Programs, Environmental law Institute. He continues to advise both United States Deaf Swimming and Gallaudet University on various matters relating to deaf athletics. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Biography submission guide. Mr. Roberts was recognized by The Best Lawyers in America in 2019 for Native American Law. Senator Kamala D. Harris, Director of Mayor Muriel Bowser's Office of the Clean City. Formerly, she was a reporter and editor of NPR's James Beard Award-winning food blog, The Salt. Previously, Lawson cofounded and was executive director of Trash Free Maryland, a nonprofit organization that uses policy and behavior change to create long-term solutions to trash pollution. Guest lecturer at over 100 colleges and universities, including Howard, Harvard, Yale, Berkley, Duke, George Washington, Georgetown, Spelman. She is as an appointee to the Citizens Advisory Committee of the Chesapeake Bay Program Executive Council, where she serves as the vice chair. Mustafa worked for EPA Administrators beginning with William Riley and ending with Scott Pruitt. She also provides strategic advice to companies on a wide range of environmental regulatory matters, including compliance assistance, project development and climate adaptation. Before working at CEQ, Szabo served as a senior policy advisor and policy analyst for the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB)s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), where he worked on domestic energy and environmental regulatory policy, as well as international regulatory cooperation and coherence with representatives from Mexico, El Salvador, Colombia, Indonesia and Korea. Executive Director of American Universitys Center for Environmental Filmmaking. When Jenna is not working on research projects at BML or in a genetics lab, she is co-captaining the UC Davis Dance Team and working on her knitting projects! Mustafa is a former instructor at West Virginia University and Stanford University.Mustafa Santiago Ali has been featured on TV, including MSNBC, CNN, VICE, and Democracy NOW. Dr. Ali first highlighted the inverse of environmental justiceenvironmental injustice, typically due to environmental racism. Dr. Ali has been featured in over 250 news publications, including GQ, New Republic, Ebony, Bustle, The Guardian, The Root, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. 683 (1997) (with Sylvia F. Liu); on energy development on public lands, Surface Tension: The Problem of Federal Private Split Estates, 33 Land & Water L. Rev. Decker serves on the Energy and Environment Committee for the Business Roundtable, and as a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Executive Council on Infrastructure. Before joining BP, Jim spent 3 years with the Chicago law firm of Winston & Strawn and 4 years with USEPA in Chicago. His portfolio as a legislative assistant focused on foreign policy in Africa and South America, homeland security, health care, appropriations, and environmental justice. He joined the EPA as a student and became a founding member of the EPAs Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ). In addition to her work at Harvard, McCarthy currently acts as an Operating Advisor at Pegasus Capital Advisors, a private equity firm in New York focused on the intersection of global sustainability, health and wellness. All rights reserved, Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Sustainability Initiative. McCarthy signed the Clean Power Plan, which set the first-ever national standards for reducing carbon emissions from existing power plants, underscoring the countrys commitment to domestic climate action and spurring international efforts that helped secure the Paris Climate Agreement. Prior to IBM, Ms. Schroeder worked with PwC Consulting, SAIC, and Westat. This blog highlighted innovative actions to address environmental justice, sustainability and climate change issues. Cynthia R. Harris is the Director of Tribal Programs and the Deputy Director of the Center for State, Tribal, and Local Environmental Programs at the Environmental Law Institutes (ELI). Our goals are to create clean, healthy and safe places to live, work, play and pray for all residents within vulnerable communities. He has written and lectured extensively on all aspects of environmental law. National Advocacy Center // Washington, D.C. A renowned thought leader, international speaker, policy maker, community liaison, trainer, and facilitator, Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali serves as the Executive Vice Presidentfor the National Wildlife Federation. In 1993, he received EPAs Lee M. Thomas Award for Management Excellence. He has received American Universitys William K. Reilly Award for Environmental Leadership, the Chesapeake Water Environment Associations Able Wolman Award, the American Lung Associations Distinguished Service award and the Walter G. Wells Conservation Award. Mr. Perciasepe has been an environmental policy leader in and outside government for more than 40 years, most recently as Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). After returning from the military, he graduated from the University of Minnesota with a BS degree in Agriculture and Applied Economics (1985), and an MA degree from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs (1987). He holds a BA degree from Yale, JD from Harvard and MS in Urban Planning from Columbia University. During his tenure with TPG, he was the Founding Partner of Aqua International Partners (1998-2010), a private equity fund dedicated to investing in companies in the water sector. Secretary of the Department of the Environment, Maryland, and former Assistant Administrator for Water, USEPA. Mr. Reilly served as the first Payne Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1993-1994), Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (1989-1993), president of World Wildlife Fund (1985- 1989), president of The Conservation Foundation (1973-1989), and director of the Rockefeller Task Force on Land Use and Urban Growth (1972- 1973). In March 2017, Mustafa Santiago Ali resigned from the EPA to join the Hip Hop Caucus (HHC) as the Senior Vice President of Climate, Environmental Justice & Community Revitalization where he led the strategic direction, expansion and operation of their portfolio on climate, environmental justice, economic equality and civic engagement. She holds JD from The Ohio State University College of Law, an MBA from George Washington University and a BA from Miami University. Before that he was Associate General Counsel for Water at the Environmental Protection Agency during 1975-77. What is Environmental Justice, and why does it matter? He began working on social justice issues at the age of 16 and joined the EPA as a student, becoming a founding member of the EPA's Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ). He elaborated to define environmental injustice, specifically the disproportionate negative impacts that historically affected, and continue to affect, lower-wealth communities and communities of color, most notably Black and Indigenous communities. Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali serves as the Vice President of Environmental Justice, Climate, and Community Revitalization for the National Wildlife Federation. John Lewiss Advice For Defending Our Health And The EPA: Get Into Good Trouble, WATCH: 2019 Presidential Forum on Environmental Justice. Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali is a giant in the field of environmental justice, and has spearheaded and served on many different roles throughout his career to uplift communities affected by social and environmental injustices.