Clean Water Action - NJ Board Members

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Janet Tauro

Janet Tauro has served as the Board Chair of Clean Water Action for over a decade, and prior to that served as a board member.
NJ Board Member Kevin Barfield

Kevin Barfield

Kevin Barfield is a native of Camden NJ and for 20 years has been advocating for Parental Rights, Social and Environmental Justice.
Shaneka Boucher

Shaneka Boucher

Shaneka Boucher is the President and Founder of Social Responsibility Through Me (SRTM), a Camden, New Jersey-based non-profit organization dedicated to addressing critical social issues impacting youth.
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Colron Chambers

Kimbles Beach, NJ

Michele R. Donato

Michele R. Donato graduated from Rutgers Law School, where she was an editor of the Rutgers Law Review.
NJ Board Member Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp is an International Representative for the Third District of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers which represents 750,000 workers (IBEW).
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Tom Fote

Tom Fote has been an avid angler since he was four years old. After retiring in 1970 as an US Army Captain, due to wounds sustained in Vietnam, Tom returned to his first love, fishing.
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Nancy Facey-Blackwood

Councilwoman Nancy Facey-Blackwood has been a driving force for sustainability, equity, and innovation in Red Bank since entering public service in 2017.
Ben Forest

Ben Forest

Ben is a long time NJ Board Member and more recently Vote Environment Committee Chair. Father and Husband. Owner of MacIntosh tech support business. Lives and serves as Councilman in Monmouth County's fabulous Red Bank.  Member of the Fort Monmouth Environmental Advisory Committee.

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Adam Liebtag

Adam Liebtag is the President of Communications Workers of America Local 1036, a labor union representing career public servants at the NJ Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Health, and Department of Agriculture, as well as over 45 county and municipal government units and the state judiciary.
NJ Board Member Peggy

Peggy Middaugh

Peggy Middaugh has been an Environmental Justice Advocate for many decades.
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Bill Nierstedt

Bill Nierstedt is a licensed NJ Professional Planner who served at the City of Elizabeth, and Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission, and as the Planning Director for the City of Plainfield prior to his 2023 retirement after 42 years.

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Mara Silgailis PhD

Mara has been interested in the environment for as long as she can remember. Her graduate school studies (PhD - Developmental Psychology) led to a deeper understanding of how the environment we are exposed to has effects on our health.

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Sue Smith

Sue Smith put her MBA to work in the global financial services industry for 30 years.
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David Tykulsker

David Tykulsker is a labor lawyer in Montclair, NJ, practicing in a wide variety of work-related subjects and forums.
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Wynnie-Fred Victor Hinds

Wynnie-Fred Victor Hinds, born in Haïti, has extensive experience working with grassroots organizations, public and private entities, and businesses in the U.S. and Latin America, with a strong focus on social justice and environmental issues.
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Tirza Wahrman

Tirza Wahrman is a former Deputy attorney general in environmental enforcement and compliance.
Lake at Delaware Gap National Park, Sunset. Photo credit: Jon Bilous / Shutterstock

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Clean Water Action works in New Jersey to protect water and health, from watershed to water tap. Our New Jersey campaigns focus on clean water for all, climate change, green energy, environmental justice, and zero waste.
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