I received my Ph.D. in the year 2000 from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University where my field of study was biological oceanography and my specialty was stable isotope biogeochemistry. My dissertation focused on determining if sewage nitrogen was being incorporated into the foodwebs of the Delaware River Estuary and Massachusetts Bay. After graduating I worked for Environmental Defense as a scientist, at the The College of New Jersey as a visiting scholar and at the Earth Institute of Columbia University as a post-doctoral fellow. Currently, I am
the director of the Center for the Urban Environment (CUE)
of the John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy of
Thomas Edison Sate College, and I have defined the
primary mission of the CUE as providing support for
New Jersey’s environmental justice community. I have also been
a member of New Jersey’s only statewide environmental organization
that focuses solely on environmental justice issues, the New
Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance, since its inception
in 2002. Prior to studying science I was a public interest attorney
for over seven years. |
