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Nia Robinson, an inaugural Climate Justice Corps Fellow in 2003, brings to the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (EJCC) her skill in, commitment to, and passion for organizing. Her transition from concerned citizen to the helm of EJCC demonstrates her commitment to EJCC's core work. Before joining EJCC, she was an organizer and labor relations representative with Service Employees International Union and a program organizer with the Earth Tomorrow Program of the National Wildlife Federation.

While becoming a writer, Bruce Watson worked as a factory hand, a journalist, a bartender, an office temp, a Peace Corps volunteer, and an elementary school teacher. As a frequent contributor to *Smithsonian*, Watson wrote more than 40 feature articles on subjects ranging from eels to Ferraris to the history of Coney Island. His articles have also appeared in *The Los Angeles Times*, *The Boston Globe*, *The Wall Street Journal*, *The Washington Post*, *Newsweek*, *Yankee*, and *The Best American Science and Nature Writing* 2003. *Bread and Roses* was chosen by the New York Public Library as one of 25 Books to Remember in 2005. *Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders, and The Judgment of Mankind* was a Book of the Month Club Selection and was nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for an Edgar Award. Watson holds a Masters Degree in American history from the University of Massachusetts and lives with his wife and two children in Western Massachusetts.

Lisa Alther graduated from Wellesley College with a BA in English literature in 1966. After attending the Publishing Procedures Course at Radcliffe College and working for Atheneum Publishers in New York, she taught Southern Fiction at St. Michael's College in Winooski, Vermont. Alther is the author of five novels -- *Kinflicks*, *Original Sins,* *Other Women*, *Bedrock* and *Five Minutes in Heaven*. Each has appeared on bestseller lists worldwide. The first three novels were featured selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club, and the five novels combined have sold over six million copies. A novella entitled *Birdman of the Dancer*, based on a series of monotypes by the French artist Francoise Gilot, has been published in Holland, Denmark and Germany. Alther's reviews and articles have appeared in many periodicals, including the *New York Times*, *Art and Antiques*, *Los Angeles Times*, *Boston Globe*, *Washington Post*, *San Francsico Chronicle*, *Natural History*, *New Society* and the *Guardian*. One of Alther's stated aims is to portray the human reality behind cultural stereotypes, particularly those regarding women. She often deals with such material in a humorous fashion, reviewers in both the *New York Times* Book Review and *The Nation* having written that she possesses "comic genius".

Vice President for Sustainable Development & Renewable Energy, after the extraordinary accomplishments Greg Watson made through the first phase of the Trust's development, he is taking the lead role on the Offshore Wind Collaborative working with the U.S. Department of Energy and GE. From 1995 to 1999 he served as Executive Director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative. Prior to that he has been with: Second Nature as its Director of Educational Programs; The Nature Conservancy's Eastern Regional Office as its Director; and Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture as Commissioner. Greg serves on the board of directors of Ocean Arks International and the Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture. He attended Tufts University where he majored in Civil Engineering. He also developed a self-directed program in Environmental Design Science at Campus-Free College in Boston.

Charles 'Chuck' Kleekamp, moved to Cape Cod upon retiring from a 37-year career as a professional electrical engineer. He has devoted his time to environmental and health issues of concern on Cape Cod. Chuck has a bachelor's degree in mathematics and electrical engineering and a master's degree in computer, control and instrumentation engineering, all from the University of Michigan. He has worked in the fields of industrial control systems and advanced communication and radar systems. Chuck is a founding director and Vice-President of Cape Clean Air, a citizen advocacy group whose mission is to engage the public and inform citizens about the health impacts of power plant emissions. He is also the Information Director of Clean Power Now. He has lectured widely on Cape Cod on wind power, its role in sustainable, pollution-free energy and its impact on the environment, economics, and health. Chuck has served on the Upper Cape Lung Cancer Advisory Committee and is a member of the Cape Cod Sustainability Indicators Council and author of the Air Quality Indicator. He participated as a stakeholder in the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative meetings regarding the Cape Wind project.

David Bergeron is approaching 20 years experience working with the fishing industry. Before joining the FPHP, he was the founding executive director of the Massachusetts Fishermens Partnership (MFP) and has also served as a founding member and treasurer of the Commercial Fishermen of America. While at the MFP, he managed a multimillion dollar collaborative research program and led fishing industry participation in the passage of the Massachusetts Oceans Act, the first comprehensive oceans management statute in the nation. Educated in music with degrees from Stetson University School of Music and the New England Conservatory, David maintains an active musical life outside the industry.

Lisa Linowes is an expert on the impacts of industrial-scale wind energy development on the natural environment, communities, and the regional grid systems. A conservation and land use advocate with over 20 years of executive business experience, Ms. Linowes has held high-profile elected and volunteer positions in community planning, land negotiation, and education outreach. Since its formation in 2006, Ms. Linowes has served as executive director and spokesperson for the Industrial Wind Action (IWA) Group, a national advocacy focused on the impact/benefits analysis and policy issues associated with industrial wind energy development. As publisher and editor of the IWA website, www.windaction.org, she tracks news and research pertaining to industrial wind, and facilitates information sharing on the issue. Ms. Linowes served as a member of the New Hampshire State Wind Energy Facility Siting Guidelines Working Group to determine guidelines for the siting of land-based wind turbines. The committee was focused on minimizing and avoiding impacts of large-scale wind development on wildlife and sensitive habitat areas. Ms. Linowes has been an active participant in the ISO-New England's Scenario Planning Process to determine regional energy requirements to meet growing demand in the region. At the local level, Ms. Linowes has been an active member of planning boards and conservation commissions for over ten years, having reviewed hundreds of development plans including wind energy facilities, large subdivisions, office buildings, and shopping complexes. She has led numerous seminars on land use issues and the impact of such development on sensitive land areas. Ms. Linowes also served on the Board of Directors of the NH Association of Conservation Commissions, and was awarded a NH Coverts Cooperator for promoting wildlife habitats conservation and forest stewardship.

James Traub is a contributing writer for *The New York Times Magazine*, where he has worked since 1998. From 1994 to 1997, he was a staff writer for *The New Yorker*. He has also written for *The New York Review of Books*, *Foreign Affairs*, *The Atlantic Monthly*, *The New Republic* and elsewhere. His articles have been widely reprinted and anthologized. He has written extensively about international affairs and especially the United Nations. In recent years, he has reported from Iran, Iraq, Sierra Leone, East Timor, Vietnam, India, Kosovo and Haiti. He has also written often about national politics and urban affairs, including education, immigration, race, poverty and crime. His books include, *The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power*; *The Devil's Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square*; *City On A Hill*, a book on open admissions at City College; and *The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy (Just Not the Way George Bush Did)*. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Iqbal Riza was a diplomat from Pakistan for twenty years before he joined the UN Department of Public Information in 1980. He subsequently served as chief of various UN transition and observer field missions in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Bosnia Herzegovina, and he also held several senior UN political affairs posts. From March 1993 to January 1996 Mr. Riza was Assistant Secretary General in the Department of Peace keeping Operations, serving under Kofi Annan. After another field assignment, Mr. Annan appointed him as his Chief of Staff in January 1997, with the rank of Under Secretary General. He served in this post until he resigned in January 1995 in the midst of the Volcker Inquiry into the Oilfor Food scandal.

Nancy Soderberg is an American foreign policy strategist who held several senior level positions in the Clinton administration and authored the book *The Superpower Myth: The Use and Misuse of American Might*. Her second book, co-authored with Brian Katulis, *The Prosperity Agenda: What the World Wants from America--and What We Need in Return*, will be published in July 2008. Soderberg was the third-highest-ranking official at the United States National Security Council from 1993-1997 and served as US Representative for Special Political Affairs at the US Mission to the United Nations with rank of Ambassador. She was a key adviser to President Clinton in negotiating the peace process in Northern Ireland. She served as Deputy Director of President Clinton's national security transition in 1992 and as a senior foreign policy adviser to Senator Edward M. Kennedy. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University. Soderberg resides in Jacksonville, Florida where she is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of North Florida. She writes and comments regularly in national and international media on foreign policy. As of 2007, Soderberg is serving as a foreign policy adviser to the Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg.