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Gary Cohen is a founder and Co-Executive Director of Health Care Without Harm, the international campaign for environmentally responsible healthcare. He is also the Executive Director of the Environmental Health Fund, which facilitates coalitions on domestic and global chemical safety issues. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Sambhavna Clinic in Bhopal, India, which provides free medical care to the survivors of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal. He has been working on environmental health issues for twenty five years. In 2006, he was awarded the Skoll Global Award for Social Entrepeneurship. In 2007, he was awarded the Frank Hatch Enlightened Public Service Award by the John Merck Fund.

Beth Doglio is the Campaign Director at Climate Solutions. She oversees legislative campaigns, ensures campaign strategy is integrated into planning of Climate Solution’s flagship programs, and sustains and builds a network of organizations and businesses to advocate for responsible climate policy, clean energy and transportation solutions. She most recently served as a campaign organizer and then development director for Audubon Washington. In 1996 she was a field organizer for National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL), and, in the early-to-mid 90s, she was Executive Director of Washington Conservation Voters (WCV). During her tenure with WCV she created Washington Environmental Alliance for Voter Education (WEAVE).

Ivan Frishberg has 20 years of organizing and advocacy experience, including public interest, environmental and electoral campaigns. He is the national Political Director for Environment America, and works to develop the organization’s political and campaign strategies. His prior experience includes working on legislative programs and strategies for the State PIRGs, federal advocacy on higher education policy and consulting for a wide range of campaigns and organizations including Rock the Vote, John Edwards for President, the Center for American Progress and the Democratic National Committee.

Anne Kelly is an environmental attorney with twenty years of experience in the private sector and in state and federal regulatory agencies. She is the Director of Governance Programs at Ceres, a principal in the law and mediation firm, Creative Resolutions, LLC based in Boston, and a member of the adjunct faculty at Boston College Law. Prior to joining Ceres, she was the Director of the Massachusetts Environmental Strike Force, a specialized unit of the Attorney General's Office dedicated to bringing criminal and civil actions against major environmental violators. She served as Special Assistant to John DeVillars, Regional Administrator of EPA New England. She is on the board of the Environmental League of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Energy Consumers Alliance.

Vicky Rateau is the climate change campaign manager for Oxfam America, an international humanitarian agency, working to address the impact of climate change on the world’s poorest, who are hit first and hardest. She coordinates a global cross-functional team, co-develops campaign strategy, project manages campaigning efforts, and helps build alliances to engage diverse constituencies. Prior to this position at Oxfam, Vicky was the Field Director at the ONE Campaign to End Global Poverty where she built the department, helped the organization develop action plans and campaigning tools, and developed ways to engage its 2.4 million members in grassroots advocacy.

Jennifer Rennicks, MS, oversees federal policy work for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, serving as the primary liaison between SACE’s programs and diverse staff and our region’s Congressional offices in Washington, DC and the states. Her primary focus is to educate policy makers and their staff on the challenges the Southeast faces from global warming impacts and the clean energy solutions that will result through progressive federal climate and energy policies. Jennifer currently serves on the Steering Committee for 1Sky, a collaborative national campaign focused on delivering bold climate and energy policy by 2010. An experienced advocate, writer, coordinator and public speaker, Jennifer worked most recently as the watershed project manager at Upstate Forever in Greenville, SC. She was also previously employed by the Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition in Asheville, NC; the Ecosystem Management Initiative in Ann Arbor, MI; the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism in Columbia, SC; and the School for Field Studies in Costa Rica, Central America. Jennifer earned a Master of Science in Environmental Policy from the University of Michigan in 2000, focusing on community conservation and protected areas management through the Belize Audubon Society in Belize, Central America for her masters project. While at the University of Michigan, Jennifer earned a certificate in environmental dispute resolution. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Environmental Studies from Tufts University in 1993, including a semester spent in Costa Rica studying sustainable development studies.

Samantha Rodgers is the Field Organizing Director at Greenpeace. In 2006, she launched the pilot of Project Hot Seat, the cutting-edge, long-term strategy to implement solutions to global warming in the US. Today she oversees the direction of the field campaign. Prior to this she worked with MoveOn.org Political Action, where she helped develop MoveOn’s first full-scale field organizing campaign and directed operations in Albuquerque, NM during the 2004 election season. Samantha has also worked for Environment California where she led development of Environment California’s new oceans campaign while running the group’s Conservation program.

Mike Tidwell is founder and director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, a grassroots nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness about the impacts and solutions associated with global warming in Maryland, Virginia, and DC. He is also author of Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana’s Cajun Coast and The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Coastal Cities and a documentary filmmaker. His most recent film, “We Are All Smith Islanders”, vividly depicts the dangers of global warming Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. In 2003, Tidwell received the Audubon Naturalist Society’s prestigious “Conservation Award.”

Jessy Tolkan, executive director of Energy Action Coalition, is a rock star of youth voting and empowerment. At UW-Madison she worked to organize student vote coalitions in 2000 and 2002, helping to elect Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin to office, and engaging students in local politics through her own bid for the Madison City Council at age 19. After graduation, Jessy worked as the Wisconsin State Director for the New Voters Project, helping to produce one of the highest youth voter turnout rates in the country.