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Mindy S. Lubber JD, MBA

President
Email: lubber@ceres.org

Mindy S. Lubber is President of Ceres, the leading coalition of investors, environmental organizations and other public interest groups working with companies and investors to build sustainability into the capital markets and address sustainability challenges such as global climate change. She also directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a network of more than 90 investors representing approximately $10 trillion in assets that coordinates U.S. investor responses to the financial risks and opportunities of climate change.

Ms. Lubber is the recipient of the Skoll Social Entrepreneur Award and under her leadership, Ceres has been awarded Global Green USA's 2009 Organizational Design Award and Fast Company Social Capitalist Awards in 2007 and 2008. She was recently voted one of "The 100 Most Influential People in Corporate Governance for 2009" by Directorship Magazine, who noted Ceres' substantial influence in its field.

Before coming to Ceres, Ms. Lubber was the Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Founder/CEO of Green Century Capital Management, an investment firm managing environmentally screened mutual funds.

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Berkley Adrio

Senior Associate, Water Program
Email: adrio@ceres.org

Berkley is a Senior Associate in the Water Program.  In this role, she works with Ceres' investor members on activities designed to address water risks in their portfolio companies.  She also conducts research on the impacts of water risk in various sectors including food and beverage, oil and gas, and electric power.

Berkley holds a BA in Environment Studies from Yale University and graduated from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies with a Master in Environmental Science in 2010.  At Yale, she conducted community ecology research in the South African savanna and New England meadow ecosystems.

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Marselle Alexander-Ozinskas

Associate, Development
Email: alexander-ozinskas@ceres.org

Marselle Alexander-Ozinskas joined Ceres in April 2010 as a Development Associate for foundation giving.  As part of the Development Team, Marselle writes foundation proposals and reports, and is responsible for grants management and foundation stewardship.

Prior to joining Ceres, Marselle served as a NOAA Sea Grant Fellow and then as a Legislative Assistant in the office of Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo, where she was responsible for environmental issues under the Congresswoman's jurisdiction as Chair of the Subcommittee of Insular Affairs, Oceans, and Wildlife. 

Marselle has a B.S. in Environmental Science/Ecology from Bates College and received her M.S. in Ecological and Evolutionary Biology from Brown University and the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.  Her master's project focused on the effects of climate change and global warming on Arctic soil carbon and nitrogen.

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Dan Bakal

Director of Electric Power Programs
Email: bakal@ceres.org

Dan Bakal joined Ceres in 2000, and has helped launch and advance two of the organization’s signature efforts, The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), which develops sustainability reporting guidelines and the $7 trillion Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), whose members are addressing the risks and opportunities associated with climate change.  Dan oversees Ceres’ electric power and coal research, shareholder engagement, and furthers the understanding of environmental risks, with a particular focus on climate risk. He works closely with Ceres coalition members, including environmental, investor, labor and public interest groups, to engage in dialogues with electric power companies, which often involve a comprehensive review of environmental policies, performance, and disclosure practices.

In 2002, Dan developed and launched the Electric Power/Investor Dialogue, a working group of electric power companies, institutional investors, environmental NGOs, and analysts that focus on taking action on climate change by reducing carbon dioxide emissions from the electric power sector. In 2005, the group issued a report highlighting best practices by the industry and financial services sector in addressing climate change. Following this initiative, Dan organized two investor/analyst briefings in collaboration with Sanford C. Bernstein Research, a subsidiary of AllianceBernstein, to assess the financial impacts of climate change on the electric power sector.

Since 2002, Dan has worked with PSEG, Inc. and the Natural Resources Defense Council to publish four editions of the report, Benchmarking Air Emissions of the 100 Largest Electric Generators. The report compares the air pollutant emissions of power industry and provides analysis of issues and trends facing the sector.

Dan has also been helping institutional investor members of INCR deploy more than $3 billion into clean energy investments.

Dan holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Brooke Barton

Senior Manager, Corporate Accountability Program
Email: barton@ceres.org

Brooke is Senior Manager of Corporate Accountability and is responsible for advising Ceres member companies on sustainability strategy, reporting and stakeholder engagement. In this role, she facilitates dialogues between companies and their stakeholders to foster corporate sustainability. Brooke works with companies in the food and beverage, oil and gas, and airline sector. She also leads Ceres’ work with companies and investors to address the growing business risks posed by water scarcity.

Prior to Ceres, Brooke was a researcher for the Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative, where she wrote case studies and articles on the CSR strategies of multinational corporations in developing countries. While at Harvard, she co-edited Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Economic and Social Value, a book examining over 20 business models for serving low-income consumers.

Brooke's other professional experience includes communications and advocacy work with ACCION International, a microfinance NGO, and project evaluation with Catholic Relief Services in Bolivia. She holds a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she studied corporate social responsibility and development economics, and a B.A. in economics from Duke University. She speaks Spanish and Portuguese.

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Rob Berridge

Senior Manager, Investor Programs
Email: berridge@ceres.org

Rob is a Senior Manager of Investor Programs at Ceres, where he leads shareholder engagement with companies on climate change, sustainability and governance issues, as well as various projects for the Investor Network on Climate Risk.  Prior to Ceres, Rob served as a board member and Vice President of Green Century Capital Management and as a staff member of US EPA's Green Lights and Energy Star Programs.  He has also worked in commercial lending, as an environmental consultant, and for a start-up hazardous waste recycling firm. Rob has a degree in Environmental Studies from Brown University and a Masters in Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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Rebecca Berwick

Associate, Corporate Programs
Email: berwick@ceres.org

Becca is a member of the Corporate Accountability team at Ceres. As a program associate, Becca assists staff in their company relationships and planning efforts. Becca graduated from Brown University last May (2008) with a B.A. in International Relations. Her focus throughout her time there was on environmental issues and their intersection with economics, politics, and international development.

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Betsy Boyle

Senior Manager, Real Estate Program
Email: boyle@ceres.org

Betsy is responsible for developing the program content for Ceres’ annual conference, including plenary sessions and workshops. In addition, she coordinates Ceres’ work to promote energy and resource efficiency in buildings by working with real estate investors and companies to change the way buildings are designed, constructed, and operated. Prior to this position, Betsy directed the first phase of development of Nexus, a green building resource center in downtown Boston, and from 2000 to 2005 was the director of operations at Ceres and managed finances and administration for the organization. Before that, she worked at the Harvard School of Public Health for seven years in development and administration. 

Betsy recently received a Master of Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where she was a Public Service Fellow. She has been a LEED Accredited Professional since 2004.

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Susan M. Burrows

Email: burrows@ceres.org

Susan manages investor relations and communications for Ceres’ Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a network of leading institutional investors driving more sustainable investment practices and performance.

Prior to joining Ceres, Susan served as the Chief Administrative Officer for New Jersey’s $65 billion state pension fund, and as Secretary to New Jersey’s State Investment Council, which directs state investment policy.

Prior to her government service, Susan served as Deputy Director of New Jersey Future, a statewide NGO and leader in the global effort to build more sustainable communities.  She directed New Jersey Future’s media relations and communications program, served as legislative/policy liaison and edited the nation’s first “Sustainable State” report.

Susan received her Masters in Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy at Princeton University.

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Jim Coburn JD

Senior Program Manager
Email: coburn@ceres.org

Jim Coburn is a senior manager at Ceres. He directs Ceres’ efforts to improve mandatory climate and environmental risk disclosure by corporations.

A staff member since 2003, Jim collaborates with members of Ceres’ Investor Network on Climate Risk on engagements with Securities and Exchange Commission leadership, including a 2007 petition for guidance on climate risk disclosure. He has managed three research reports on this topic and the international collaboration which created the Global Framework for Climate Risk Disclosure, the first global standard for comprehensive corporate climate risk disclosure. He helped organize the first Senate hearing on this subject.

Jim also works with securities regulators outside the U.S. He directs Ceres’ involvement in the Climate Disclosure Standards Board, a global collaboration of accounting firms, NGOs, and corporations developing standards for disclosure in securities filings. He is collaborating with Canadian attorneys and investors on engagements with Canadian Securities Administrators. He has also worked with investor groups in the UK and Australia/New Zealand to develop industry-specific disclosure guidance.

Before joining Ceres, Jim worked for Morgan Stanley in equity research, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Co-op America. He holds a BA in Government from Cornell University, a JD from Boston College Law School, and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar.

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Meg Crawford

Manager, Corporate Programs
Email: crawford@ceres.org

Meg works with Ceres companies and coalition members on sustainability reporting, strategy, and stakeholder engagement. In this role, she facilitates dialogues between companies and their stakeholders to foster corporate sustainability. Meg works with companies in the food and beverage, manufacturing and electric power sectors. Prior to Ceres, Meg was a researcher supporting Harvard Business School's curriculum on Leadership and Corporate Accountability, and while earning her master’s she worked with the Pew Center on Global Climate Change’s Markets and Business Strategy team. Meg holds a master's degree from Georgetown University, where she studied foreign policy, government relations and corporate responsibility, and a B.S. in foreign languages from Georgetown University. She speaks both English and French.

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Christopher P. Davis

Director, Investor Programs
Email:  davis@ceres.org

Chris Davis directs the Ceres Investor Programs, leading the investor Programs team and working with institutional investors and asset managers on climate change and other sustainability issues.

Prior to joining Ceres in 2010, Chris had a distinguished career as an environmental lawyer, with almost 30 years of private practice experience.  As a senior partner at Goodwin Procter LLP, Chris chaired the environmental practice, co-founded and led the clean tech practice, and was a member of the private equity team.  He advised and represented corporate and investor clients on a wide range of environmental matters, including those arising in real estate, private equity, corporate M&A and financing transactions; regulatory compliance and enforcement matters; hazardous waste site cleanup and brownfields redevelopment; complex environmental litigation and settlements; insurance coverage; environmental disclosure and climate change issues.

Chris also did substantial pro bono work for organizations including The Nature Conservancy, the Trust for Pubic Land and the Conservation Law Foundation, and served on his firm's pro bono committee.  In addition, he has held various leadership positions in the American Bar Association's Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, serving as Education Officer, Council member and chair of the ABA Keystone Conference on Environmental Law. Chris chairs the Board of Deacons at First Church (Congregational) in Wenham, MA.  Prior to his legal career, he worked as an environmental engineer.

Chris received his B.A. from Dartmouth College and his J.D. from Harvard Law School, were he was a member of the Harvard Law Review.  He is a member of the American College of Environmental Lawyers.  Chris and his wife Carol have two grown children (who are co-founders of an energy efficiency startup company), and live in Hamilton, MA.

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Mary Demerle

Operations Coordinator
Email: demerle@ceres.org

As Operations Coordinator, Mary Demerle is responsible for helping to run the administrative, financial, and human resources functions for the organization. She also serves as Ceres' first point of contact as Ceres' receptionist.

Mary has extensive experience in office management, having served as office manager for Travelers Aid/Boston and Thi Do Labs, and as receptionist for Ceres coalition member Trillium Asset Management.

Mary has an Associates Degree from Boston Business School, and has received staff-voted awards for providing outstanding customer service in her previous positions.

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Kristin Erekson

Associate, Communications
Email: erekson@ceres.org

Kristin joined Ceres as a Communications Associate in August 2010. She assists the Communications team in managing Ceres’ website and supports media relations and external communications efforts.

Prior to joining Ceres, Kristin was the Public Relations & Fundraising Associate for the Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE), a private non-profit agency dedicated to finding permanent adoptive families for children and teens in state foster care. In addition to managing the agency’s website, she supported external communications, worked to engage media on issues surrounding adoption from foster care, and assisted in planning large-scale events, such as the state’s annual National Adoption Day. She also managed MARE's Heart Gallery, a traveling exhibit featuring professional portraits of local youth in need of adoption.

Before her career in public relations, Kristin worked as an editorial assistant for the Boston Herald and for the City Weekly section of the Boston Globe, where several of her stories appeared on the front page of both publications. She also worked as a staff reporter for The Jewish Advocate, covering local, national, and international issues impacting the Jewish community.

Kristin graduated from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst with a B.A. in journalism. She writes news and feature articles on a regular basis, most often for community newspapers.

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Peyton Fleming

Director, Strategic Communications
Email: fleming@ceres.org

Peyton Fleming oversees external communications, media relations, outreach materials and the web site at Ceres. He joined Ceres in fall 2004, after working for six years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's New England Office in Boston. He has an extensive background in journalism, covering the environment, business and various other issues for more than a decade at such newspapers as the Providence Journal and the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass. He won several environmental and business reporting awards.

Peyton has a B.A. in Intercultural Studies from Trinity College in Hartford, CT.

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Hilary A. Forbes

Director, Human Resources and Operations
Email: forbes@ceres.org

Hilary Forbes oversees human resources and facilities management at Ceres.  She joined Ceres in the spring of 2008 after working for five years at the Junior League of Boston as their Managing Director.  Previously Hilary worked in higher education in Nashville, TN at the Margaret Cuniggim Women’s Center at Vanderbilt University managing a federal grant to combat violent crimes against women on college campuses and organizing programming for the center. 

Hilary has an A.B. from Smith College in Economics and a M.Ed. from Vanderbilt University in Higher Education Administration.

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Chris Fox

Co-Director, Policy Program
Email: fox@ceres.org

Chris co-directs the Ceres Policy Program that works to advance policy solutions on energy, climate change and other sustainability challenges. Chris serves as one of Ceres's spokespeople on public policy issues, conducting briefings for policymakers, reporters, investors, businesses, and NGOs. Previously Chris was a co-founder of the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a project of Ceres, and directed the Ceres investor program for nine years. Among many other initiatives, Chris organized four investor summits on climate change at the United Nations Headquarters and supervised follow-up action plans. In his first year at Ceres Chris led the effort to raise the initial foundation funding for the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) project of Ceres.

Before joining Ceres, Chris served as a program associate at the Heinz Family Foundation in Washington, D.C.  He was also executive director of the Center for Environmental Citizenship, a national non-profit environmental organization that merged with the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund in 2006. Chris is a board member of the Clean Economy Network.  He has a B.A. from Yale College and an M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School. Chris and his wife have three children and live in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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Mary Gardiner

Associate, Corporate Program
Email: gardiner@ceres.org

As Corporate Program Associate, Mary coordinates Corporate Accountability team management and supports engagement with companies. Mary graduated from the University of Richmond magna cum laude with a B.A. in Leadership Studies and a minor in Economics, in May 2008.  Before joining Ceres, she spent time traveling and doing work exchange - first in Greece as an English as a Second Language instructor and then in Hawaii as a hand on an organic farm.  She also interned at EIRIS, a socially responsible investment research non-profit.

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Jessica Halverson

Manager of Development Programs
Email: halverson@ceres.org

Jessica Halverson joined Ceres in June 2007 as Manager of Development Programs. She is responsible for cultivation and stewardship of individual donors, and manages the design and roll-out of special development projects.

Jessica has a background in nonprofit consulting, communications, and development. She most recently worked for the Melville Charitable Trust to build the Partnership to End Long Term Homelessness (PELTH), a funder network of corporate and foundation grantmakers committed to ending homelessness in the U.S.

Jessica graduated with honors from Grinnell College with a BA in Sociology. She earned an MBA from Boston University, where she completed dual concentrations in Public & Nonprofit Management and Strategy & Business Analysis.

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Kylee McGee Hamilton

Senior Associate, Policy Program
Email: hamilton@ceres.org

Kylee joined Ceres' Investor Program in 2007 where she supported the work of the Investor Network on Climate Risk and organized two investor summits at United Nations Headquarters. She now coordinates business and investor outreach to U.S. and international policymakers on energy and climate policy. Prior to Ceres, Kylee led the Alliance to Save Energy's Green Campus Program at UC San Diego, educating the campus community about environmental sustainability and energy efficiency. She also developed an implementation plan for the University of California's Environmentally Preferred Purchasing Policy with UC San Diego's Purchasing Department. Kylee studied in Brazil and Australia and speaks three languages. She graduated from UC San Diego with a BA in Environmental Policy and International Studies-Political Science.

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Anne Kelly

Co-Director, Policy Program
Email: kelly@ceres.org

Anne Kelly is an environmental attorney with twenty years of experience in the private sector and in state and federal regulatory agencies. Currently she is the Co-Director of Policy at Ceres, a non-profit coalition of investors and public interest groups working toward sustainable prosperity. She is also a principal in the law and mediation firm, Creative Resolutions, LLC based in Boston.

Prior to joining Ceres, Ms. Kelly 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 also served as Special Assistant to John DeVillars, Regional Administrator of EPA New England. Ms. Kelly is a member of the adjunct faculty at Boston College Law School and has taught environmental law at Tufts University, Suffolk University and New England School of Law. She is on the board of the Environmental League of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Energy Consumers Alliance.

In addition to her JD, Ms. Kelly received her Masters in Public Administration from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School.

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Scott Kleiman

Executive Associate
Email: kleiman@ceres.org

Scott Kleiman joined Ceres in 2007 as a Program Fellow.  In May 2008, he stepped into a new role of Executive Associate, primarily working with Mindy Lubber to provide administrative, operational, and programmatic support.  He is also liaison with the Board of Directors and coordinates the annual Bavaria Awards.  As Program Fellow, Scott managed special projects supporting Ceres' operations, and worked with the Communications and Corporate teams on a variety of initiatives.

Prior to Ceres, Scott was as an intern with Strategic Sustainability Consulting, a small sustainability consultancy out of Washington, DC and was a fellow with StartingBloc's Institute for Social Innovation.  He's pruned vineyards and built pig-pens as a farmhand at Spannocchia, an organic farm in Italy, taught teens nutrition and cooking at the youth development organization Brainfood in Washington, D.C., and managed a restaurant on Cape Cod.

Scott graduated from Middlebury College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science.

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Katie Kunhardt

Coordinator, Development
Email: kunhardt@ceres.org

Katie joined Ceres as the Development Coordinator in August 2010. She is responsible for providing support to the Development Team in their efforts to raise funds from foundations, individuals, and corporations.

Katie holds a Master of Environmental Law and Policy (cum laude) from Vermont Law School and a B.A. (cum laude) in Political Science and a minor in marine biology from the University of New Hampshire. Prior to joining Ceres, Katie worked as the Development and Communications Coordinator for a small land trust based in Boston, MA, fundraising for forever-wild land conservation efforts.

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Kristen Parkinson Lang

Senior Associate, Corporate Program
Email: lang@ceres.org

Kristen Parkinson is a Senior Associate in the Corporate Program for Ceres.  Her responsibilities include supporting outreach to potential Ceres network companies and direct engagement with companies in the Ceres network. Kristen manages relationships with the consumer product companies within the Ceres network and works with them on sustainability reporting, stakeholder engagement, and dialogue facilitation.  Kristen also manages the Ceres-ACCA Sustainability Reporting Awards and the annual Bavaria Awards, and she leads the production of Ceres' annual sustainability report.

Prior to working for Ceres, Kristen was the Manager of Finance for a Cambridge-based environmental non-profit.  Kristen graduated from Dartmouth with a Bachelor of Arts in environment and policy.

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Sharlene Leurig

Senior Manager, Insurance Program
Email: leurig@ceres.org

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Andrew Logan

Director, Oil & Insurance Programs
Email: logan@ceres.org

Since joining Ceres in 2002, Andrew has launched and directs two program areas for the organization: the first focuses on working with investors to engage the oil sector on key sustainability issues including climate change, biodiversity and water. Andrew's second area of focus is the insurance sector, particularly the role that insurers could play in encouraging solutions to climate change.

Andrew has a background in corporate strategy from his work with Bain & Company, a leading management consultancy. While with Bain, Andrew developed high-level strategy for companies in the finance, e-commerce, manufacturing, retail and media sectors. Prior to joining Ceres, Andrew directed U.S. PIRG's corporate campaign to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He was graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College.

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Gordon MacFarland

Chief Financial Officer
Email: macfarland@ceres.org

Gordon MacFarland serves as Chief Operating Office, and joined Ceres in November 2007.  He oversees all aspects of operations including finance, information technology, and human resources.  Gordon supports the president and program directors in developing and implementing strategic and operating plans and managing the day-to-day workflow of the operations team.

Gordon is a certified public accountant with over 15 years of experience with international accounting firms and his own practice.  Gordon also was executive director of the Vermont Economic Progress Council and held management roles with the Vermont Institute of Natural Science and the SmartWood Program of the Rainforest Alliance.  Most recently, he served as CFO for two renewable energy companies.

Gordon has a MPA in environmental policy from the University of Washington, a Masters in accounting from Colorado State University, and a B.A. from Miami University (Ohio).

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Andrea Moffat

Senior Director of Corporate Programs
Email: moffat@ceres.org

Andrea Moffat is the Senior Director of Corporate Programs and oversees Ceres’ Corporate Accountability, Corporate Governance, and Corporate Outreach programs.  With over 10 years of experience, Andrea manages a team, which engages with over 70 companies to help them meet sustainability commitments and achieve greater performance results. Andrea works directly with company leadership in over two-dozen Fortune 500 companies in order to develop new strategies, facilitate stakeholder engagement, and elevate sustainability to the boardroom.  

Andrea also works to encourage businesses to become Ceres Companies so they can realize the business value of engaging with stakeholders, reporting publicly, and committing to continuously improve environmental and social performance. 

Before joining Ceres, Andrea led and managed a corporate responsibility program for Canada's Environment Department. This program was focused on supporting corporations in a number of areas, including sustainability reporting, developing the link between sustainability and business value, and providing corporations with sustainability tools, research and information. Establishing partnerships with a wide-range of stakeholder groups was an important component of this program.

Andrea's other professional experience includes community development work with the African Medical Research Foundation in East Africa, research with the Canadian Environmental Law Association, and an environmental lecturer at the University of Toronto.

Andrea has a Master of Environmental Studies degree from Dalhousie University and a Bachelor of Arts Honors degree in sociology/psychology from Queen's University, Canada.

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Dan Mullen

Senior Manager, Electric Power Programs
Email: mullen@ceres.org

As manager of electric power programs at Ceres, Dan advances understanding about the risks of carbon-intensive electric power generation and promotes energy efficiency, clean technology and renewable energy as integral solutions for a low-carbon economy. He is the architect of Ceres' energy efficiency program and is managing its implementation across multiple program teams.  He also provides input to companies developing sustainability strategies and reporting on social, environmental and financial performance.

Prior to his current role, Dan spent three years managing foundation development at Ceres, a period during which Ceres' foundation portfolio, foundation revenue, staff size and organizational budget all doubled.

A graduate of Stanford University, Dan has written about sustainability and climate risk for numerous Ceres reports, op-eds, speeches, and books.

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Gabriela Ochoa

Manager, Finance
Email: ochoa@ceres.org

Gabriela Ochoa joined Ceres in January 2007.  As Finance Manager, Gabriela oversees the financial and administrative aspects of the organization.  Gabriela as well provides grant accounting services, and produces grant budgets and financial reports. Before coming to Ceres, Gabriela worked at Banco de la Nacion in Peru, and as a Technical Analyst for Rimac Internacional EPS, a Medical Care Insurance company.  Recently, she worked at MIT as a Financial Assistant supporting the Biology Finance Office.

Gabriela’s other professional experiences include consulting and project evaluation at Partners HealthCare and Dell.  Gabriela holds a BS in Economics from Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru and a Masters in Business Administration from Hult International Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Veena Ramani

Manager, Corporate Accountability Program
Email: ramani@ceres.org

Veena joined Ceres in July 2006 as Manager of Corporate Accountability Programs. She works with Ceres companies and coalition members on sustainability reporting, stakeholder engagement and facilitates dialogue between stakeholders and companies to foster corporate sustainability.

Before Ceres, Veena worked as a Management Consultant with CDM, an environmental consultancy in Cambridge, focusing on providing sustainability services to clients. Prior to that, she spent three years with Integrative Strategies Forum, a Washington DC based NGO, working on developing national and international policy solutions on sustainable development, building consensus and coalitions among civil society groups on these issues and lobbying government representatives.. Veena has also practiced law in India.

Veena has an LL.M (Masters in Law) degree from Washington University in St. Louis and a B.A. LL. B (Hons) degree from National Law School from India University, Bangalore

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Carol Lee Rawn

Senior Manager, Transportation Program
Email: rawn@ceres.org

Carol Lee Rawn manages the Transportation Program at Ceres.  She is an environmental attorney with over eighteen years of experience working with federal and state regulatory agencies, companies, and nonprofit organizations on a wide variety of environmental issues.

She previously served as General Counsel for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, as well as Deputy Legal Counsel to the Governor of Massachusetts. She has also been an attorney with the Conservation Law Foundation, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, and NRDC.

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Tracey Rembert

Tracey is the Senior Manager for Investor Engagement at Ceres, and is responsible for network-building within INCR. She works closely with pension funds, foundations and endowments, union funds, asset managers, and sustainable investment funds to improve their investment practices on climate and sustainability issues, and to help investors better promote ESG practices at global corporations through shareholder engagement, regulatory advocacy, and strategic joint initiatives.

Before joining Ceres, Tracey managed the Shareholder Action Network, a national clearinghouse on shareholder activism and responsible investment launched by the Social Investment Forum in Washington, DC, where she also coordinated the Forum's Advocacy and Public Policy program. She later served as the Senior Corporate Governance Analyst and Coordinator of Corporate Engagement at the Service Employees International Union, where she led dialogues with companies, and investor campaigns, on issues ranging from climate risk and labor rights to independent board leadership, executive pay, and shareholder rights. Tracey was also an analyst and governance advocate for Pax World Mutual Funds, and worked for Green America (formerly Co-op America) and the Center for a New American Dream. Previous to her shareholder engagement career, she was an environmental journalist, as a reporter at regional newspapers and as the Managing Editor of E/The Environmental Magazine based in Norwalk, CT. She has an MA in English Literature with an environmental writing concentration from Humboldt State University, California. She is one of the first recipients of the Rising Stars of Corporate Governance Award from the Yale School of Management's Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance (2008). Tracey also specializes in stakeholder dialogue, CSR reporting, annual meeting strategy, proxy voting and voting guidelines, and network-building strategies for the investment community.

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Tim Rindler

Associate, Foundations Development
Email: rindler@ceres.org

Tim joined Ceres as a Communications Associate in September 2009, and transitioned into his current role as Development Associate, Foundations in April 2010.  While with the Communications team, Tim was also heavily involved in Ceres' policy work.  As a Development Associate, Tim works with foundations on writing proposals and managing grants, and is responsible for foundation stewardship.

Before coming to Ceres, Tim worked in both Berlin, Germany and Durham, NC as director of the document-processing department for Shoeboxed.com, an online receipt-processing service.  He graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in Economics.

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Brian Sant

Manager, Online Communications
Email: sant@ceres.org

Brian supports Ceres' external communications, media relations, and outreach materials production, and is responsible for managing both the Ceres and Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) websites.

Prior to joining Ceres, Brian was the Online Organizer for TrueMajority.org where he worked to engage everyday people on progressive political issues including universal health care, election protection and climate change. Before that, he developed and managed the online communications program at Corporate Accountability International.

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Erica Scharn

Email: scharn@ceres.org

Erica joined Ceres as a Program Associate for Investor Programs in October 2008.  She helps to coordinate shareholder engagement with companies, which includes assisting Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) members with filing and co-filing shareholder resolutions on climate change and sustainability issues.  She also works on INCR's disclosure program.

Erica has a Master of Public Policy from Brown University.  While at Brown, she spent almost a year as a Policy Fellow at the Office of the Rhode Island General Treasurer.  Originally from western Massachusetts, Erica graduated from UMass Amherst with a B.A. in Sociology (Departmental Honors) and a minor in Psychology.  

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Natasha Scotnicki

Senior Manager, Corporate Relations
Email: scotnicki@ceres.org

Natasha is responsible for corporate outreach, special partnerships and sponsorship of Ceres events. She also facilitates stakeholder engagement for companies in the tech sector.

Prior to joining Ceres, Natasha worked in sales management at CNET Networks in San Francisco, where she sold international marketing solutions to U.S.-based technology clients. Prior to CNET Networks, at publisher Addison Wesley, Natasha was an account manager, supporting six teams in South America.  Natasha graduated Cum Laude from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Spanish.

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Kirsten Spalding

California Office Director
Email:spalding@ceres.org

Kirsten is the California Director for Ceres.  She works with members of the Investor Network on Climate Risk on their initiatives and represents Ceres on the West Coast for all Ceres programs. 

Prior to joining Ceres, she served as Chief Deputy Treasurer under California Treasurer Phil Angelides and Director of the Treasurer’s environmental financing authorities. 

Prior to her government service, Kirsten worked in the labor movement as Chief of Staff for the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. With the California Sierra Club and the Ella Baker Center, Kirsten co-founded the California Apollo Alliance. And for six years, she chaired the Center for Labor Research and Education at University of California, Berkeley and taught at Boalt Hall School of Law.  

In her early career she worked as a community organizer in the townships around Durban, South Africa organizing cultural events with the United Democratic Front and the ANC for an end to the apartheid government there. 

Kirsten holds a BA from Yale College in music and a JD from Hastings College of Law.

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Stacy Thompson

Senior Associate, Events and Sponsorship
Email: thompson@ceres.org

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Steve Tripoli

Communications Manager
Email: tripoli@ceres.org

Steve Tripoli brings decades as a nationally-recognized broadcast and print journalist to Ceres. His chief responsibilities will include articulating the strong economic case for national energy and climate policies, and bringing the broad array of business leaders who support such policies to the public forum.

Steve was most recently an on-air fixture at "Marketplace," public radio's nationwide daily business program, where he led coverage of the unfolding economic crisis. He has also worked for National Public Radio in Washington, the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, and as a Beijing-based adviser to the Chinese government's English-language newspaper China Daily. Aside from "Marketplace" his broadcast stories have been heard on NPR's "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered," on Public Radio International's "Monitor Radio" and on the BBC World Service.

In his one previous stint outside mainstream journalism Steve was a consumer fraud investigator at the National Consumer Law Center. He says he couldn't help but notice, while there, that the in-depth reports he wrote about consumer scams and fraud had more impact on actually changing things than much of modern journalism, which too often lacks the resources for in-depth reporting these days. That made the decision to bring his skills to Ceres an easy one.

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Meg Wilcox

Communications Outreach Manager
Email: wilcox@ceres.org

Meg manages media relations at Ceres, and contributes to external communications, web communications and the production of outreach materials. She joined Ceres in fall 2008, after working as communications manager at Environment Northeast (ENE), an advocacy organization focused on climate change and energy policy. At ENE Meg led media relations, revamped the organization’s website, and generally elevated the rising organization’s public profile.

Meg worked for Ceres previously as a communications consultant in 2006. She has provided communications consulting to other organizations, including the Unitarian Universalist Association and Grassroots International, a resource rights organization, and has also worked as a freelance writer. Her articles on the environment have appeared in the Boston Globe, Cape Codder, and a variety of community newspapers.

Prior to her work in communications, Meg worked in the public health field. She has a B.S. in Environmental Studies from Cornell University, and a M.S. in Environmental Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.

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Lauren Wolpin

Associate, Development
Email: wolpin@ceres.org

Lauren Wolpin joined Ceres in July 2009 as a Development Associate for foundation giving.  As part of the Development Team, Lauren writes foundation proposals and reports, and is responsible for grants management and foundation stewardship.

Prior to joining Ceres, Lauren worked at the Trust for Public Land, raising funds and crafting campaigns to protect open space across Massachusetts.  She also spent time as field researcher, studying native plants on Martha’s Vineyard.  Lauren graduated Cum Laude from Colby College with a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Biology, and has been passionate about environmental issues since growing up surrounded by nature on a dirt road in Vermont.

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Nancy M. Yanofsky

Director, Development
Email: yanofsky@ceres.org

Nancy M. Yanofsky is the Director of Development at Ceres, overseeing the Development Team’s work in building and maintaining relationships with foundations, corporations, individuals and other entities that provide philanthropic support.

Prior to joining Ceres, Nancy was the Director of Development at Legal Services NYC, the nation’s largest free civil legal assistance organization.  She has also served as the Director of Development at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice (formerly the Welfare Law Center) and was Senior Development Consultant to NYC2012, the organization that worked to bring the Olympics to New York City in 2012.

During the 1990’s, she was President of the ProChoice Resource Center, a national organization based in New York dedicated to furthering women’s reproductive health care.  She also served as a principle in Yanofsky Associates, an independent consulting practice that worked primarily with the not-for-profit community

Nancy has had a distinguished career in education, ranging from teaching first grade in Newton, Massachusetts to holding an academic appointment at George Mason University. She is a graduate of Boston University and did her graduate work in theoretical linguistics at Georgetown University from 1975 - 1981.  She was a post-doctoral fellow in the Joint Program in Cognitive Science at the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan in 1982. 

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Hang Zhao

Coordinator, Finance
Email: zhao@ceres.org

Hang Zhao joined Ceres in July 2010 as the Finance Coordinator. She received her B.S. in Chemistry in Nanjing University, China. She spent a half a year in Chicago pursuing her Ph.D. in Chemistry, but transferred to Suffolk University to study accounting. She will graduate in May 2011 with a Master in Accounting. Before coming to Ceres, Hang worked as Accounts Payable intern at Community Resources for Justice for about a year. She also works as a volunteer at Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) to help with tax return and financial coaching.

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David Ziv-Kreger MD

Director, Foundation and Government Development
Email: ziv-kreger@ceres.org

David Ziv-Kreger has more than two decades of experience in the start-up and development of innovative not-for-profit initiatives. David came to Ceres in 2006, where he serves as Director of Development, working with the development team to secure the resources needed to fuel Ceres' initiatives from foundation, corporate and government sources, as well as from a growing numbers of generous and forward-thinking individuals.