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State of the States 2012 State of the States 2012 Meet the Speakers Judy Adler is a Senior Program Officer at the Turner Foundation and has been with the foundation since 2006. Judy manages the strategic direction of the Creating Solutions for Sustainable Living and Healthy Planet, Healthy Communities Programs. In this role, Judy recommends investments to the president and board to catalyze sustainable management of water and energy resources. With a background in environmental engineering, Judy formerly worked for the State of Georgia’s Sustainability Division where she managed a team of engineers that helped businesses and institutions across the state reduce their environmental footprint. She also worked as a consultant with Metcalf & Eddy, Inc. (now AECOM) where she provided environmental services for industrial, municipal and federal clients. Judy is the current Chair-elect of the Board of Directors for the Institute of Georgia Environmental Leadership. Judy received a Bachelor of Engineering from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a licensed professional engineer and a Certified Energy Manager. Judy lives in Atlanta with her husband, Ted, and daughter, Iris. Geoffrey Anderson is the President and CEO of Smart Growth America. Recently named by Partnership for Sustainable Communities as "One of the 100 Most Influential Leaders in Sustainable Community Planning and Development," Geoff came to his current position after 8 years heading the Smart Growth Program at the US EPA. Geoff is a leader in the smart growth movement helping to found the movement as one of the authors of the foundational 10 smart growth principles. With an extensive list of publications, Geoff has served as an expert witness in front of the US Congress, has been interviewed and cited by the New York Times, NewsWeek, the Washington Post, Fox News, NPR, and numerous other outlets and publications. Geoff received his Master’s Degree from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment with a concentration in Resource Economics and Policy. May Boeve is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of 350.org, an international climate change campaign. On October 24, 2009, 350.org coordinated the most widespread day of political action in history, with more than 5,200 events in 181 countries all conveying the message: 350 ppm, the safe level of CO2 in the atmosphere. Previously, May co-founded and helped lead the Step It Up 2007 campaign, which helped to change the debate about global warming policy in the United States through grassroots action. May was the recipient of the Brower Youth Award in 2006 and is the co-author of Fight Global Warming Now. She lives in Brooklyn. Beto Bedolfe has focused on international biodiversity conservation, protection of the marine environment, environmental health, and Southern California social issues since 1992. He is a founding member of HEFN and a member of its Steering Committee. Prior to his current responsibilities, Mr. Bedolfe directed programs for the U.S. Agency for International Development, primarily in West and Southern Africa. He has lived in the Cape Verde Islands and Mozambique, and implemented short-term assignments in Guinea Bissau and Sao Tome-Principe. From 1977 – 80, he was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Paraguay. Beto is a member of the board of directors of the Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (SIMA) Environment Fund and also serves as the chair of the Oceana board of directors. Previously he was a board member and treasurer of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity. Becky Bond is the political director of CREDO Mobile. Becky has been at the forefront of the online to offline organizing movement since she joined CREDO in 2000, combining innovative technology, rapid response, measurable results, volunteer engagement and a passionate commitment to winning progressive victories. Organizing with CREDO, Becky has grown a community of 2.5 million activists who take action on issues ranging from defending choice to protecting net neutrality to fighting climate change and ending unjust wars. She also led the 2004 campaign to register one million anti-war citizens as well as the "Hell NO on 23" campaign, CREDO's victorious 2010 effort to crush Texas oil and save California's global warming law. Becky co- founded the Secretary of State Project in 2006 and currently serves on the board of the New Organizing Institute. Tony Caligiuri is currently the Regional Executive Director of the National Wildlife Federation’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Center where he manages the organization’s program work in the region. He also serves as the co-Chair of the Choose Clean Water Coalition, a coalition of more than 230 organizations from throughout the 7 state Chesapeake watershed committed to stronger protections for clean water in all of the local rivers and streams of the entire region. Prior to NWF, Tony served for 18 years as chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest (MD01), where he helped to guide the Congressman’s legislative and political agenda in the US House of Representatives. He has also led various political and conservation campaigns in Maryland, including his current service as chair of the Maryland League of Conservation Voters, and a board member of the National Wildlife Federation’s Action Fund (c4). Tony graduated from Washington College on the Eastern Shore of Maryland where he still resides with wife and 2 children. John Cavanagh directs the Institute for Policy Studies. He is the co-author of 12 books and numerous articles on the global economy, and has helped to build several citizens coalitions to pursue peace, justice, and the environment. He is a former official of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the World Health Organization. He serves on the boards of ProgressiveCongress.org, the Fund for Constitutional Government, the International Forum on Globalization, and other groups. Donald Cohen is the Founder and Chair of In the Public Interest, a national resource center on privatization and responsible contracting. He is also the founder of the Cry Wolf Project, a nonprofit research network that identifies and exposes misleading rhetoric about the economy, regulation and government. He is the former political director of the San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL- CIO. He was also the co-founder and president of the Center on Policy Initiatives, a San Diego-based research and policy center. He is a founding board member of the Partnership for Working Families, a national federation of metropolitan-based research, policy and action centers. He is on the board of Green For All, the Ballot Initiatives Strategy Center and the Labor Project for Working Families. Lew Daly is Director of the Sustainable Progress Initiative and a Senior Fellow at Demos, a public policy think tank based in New York City. He leads Demos's Beyond GDP project, a multiyear research and advocacy strategy supporting implementation of alternative indicators for sustainability and well-being at the federal and state levels. He also manages a research project on economic alternatives to mass-consumerism. Lew is the co-author of a new report, "Beyond GDP: New Measures for a New Economy" (Demos 2012). His books include Unjust Deserts: How the Rich are Taking our Common Inheritance (with Gar Alperovitz), and he has also worked extensively in the field of religion and social policy, most recently as chief consultant to the Economic Crisis Study Team of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Paula Daniels is Senior Advisor to the Mayor of Los Angeles, Food Policy and Special Projects in Water. She specializes in sustainable food and water policy, including urban runoff management, water re-use, and regional food systems. As a former Los Angeles Public Works Commissioner Paula developed and led a suite of green infrastructure policies, best practices and tools, and a food policy framework. She is founding chair of the Los Angeles Food Policy Council. Until her appointment by Mayor Villaraigosa to the Board of Public Works, she had a long career in civil litigation as a trial attorney, mediator and arbitrator. Actively engaged in California environmental policy issues for over 20 years, Paula was also commissioner with the California Coastal Commission, and a gubernatorial appointee on the governing board of the California Bay-Delta Authority. Michael Dimock has worked in the agricultural sector for seventeen years. After working for a multinational agribusiness company in Europe and California, Michael turned his focus to sustainable agriculture and high value marketing strategies to ensure that small and medium size producers would survive amidst global corporate consolidation. From 1992 to 2006, he founded and directed, Ag Innovations Network, which provides strategic planning and consensus building services to rural communities, farming and food companies, and government agencies focused on sustainability. From 2000 to the present he has been a central player in the international Slow Food Movement, both as Chairman of Slow Food USA (until January of 2006) and as a member of the Slow Food International Board. He has also been Chairman of the Board of the Community Alliance with Family Farmers, the state’s oldest organization dedicated to sustainable family farms. Michael is a national voice and a blogger on issues of sustainable food, farming, and communities. He came to the ROC Fund following his leadership, as a grantee, of the ROC effort to build a statewide leadership network. Michael holds a B.A. in history from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University. Steve Eldred has worked in the San Diego Regional office for The California Endowment since 2001. He currently leads The Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities strategy for San Diego County, with a targeted focus in the City Heights neighborhood in central San Diego.
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