Meet Our Team of Experts

(Photo: John Rae)

The Environmental Defense Fund Center for Conservation Incentives (CCI) staff includes scientists, economists, lawyers, policy specialists and other experts working to conserve wildlife and other natural resources on working farms, ranches, non-industrial forestlands and other private lands nationwide.

CCI Staff
 

Karen Chapman, Great Lakes Regional Director, Ohio Field Office

Candice Chow, Agricultural Policy Fellow, Sacramento, CA

Dan Cronin, Communications Officer, Washington, DC

Sean Crowley, Marketing and Communications Director, Washington, DC

Suzy Friedman, Chesapeake Bay Regional Director, Washington, DC

Jason Funk, Land and Water Conservation Analyst, Washington, DC

Dan Grossman, Regional Director, Boulder, CO

Eric Holst, Managing Director of the Center for Conservation Incentives, Sacramento, CA

Elgie Holstein, Vice President / Land, Water & Wildlife Program, Washington, DC

Sara Hopper, Agricultural Policy Director, Washington, DC

Michael Hughes, Program Associate, Washington, DC

Ann Karpinski, Graphic Designer and Outreach Associate, Boulder, CO

Camille Kustin, Policy Analyst, Sacramento, CA

Britt Lundgren, Agricultural Policy Specialist, Washington, DC

Will McDow, Southeast Regional Director, Raleigh, NC

Eileen McLellan, Chesapeake Bay Project Coordinator, Washington, DC

Sam Pearsall, Southeast Regional Program Manager, Raleigh, NC

Kathryn Phillips, California Transportation and Air Initiative Director, Sacramento, CA

Joe Rudek, Scientist, Raleigh, NC

Kim Sharp, Financial Analyst, Austin, TX

Stacy Small, Conservation Scientist, Washington, DC

Theodore Toombs, Rocky Mountain Regional Director, Boulder, CO

David Wolfe, Director of Conservation Science and Texas Regional Director, Austin, TX

Our Partners

CCI teams up with other  organizations, such as American Forest Foundation, California Rice Commission, Iowa Soybean Association, The Nature Conservancy, and Rancher Stewardship Alliance. Together, we work to develop on-the-ground conservation projects and to further incentives policies that benefit private landowners, endangered and at-risk wildlife, plants and other natural resources.

Posted: 12-Mar-2009; Updated: 28-Sep-2009