Kathleen Curtis

CEC's Executive Director, Kathleen Curtis has worked in the environmental health field for seventeen years. Kathy coordinates the Toxic-Free Future campaign. She has extensive experience as a public speaker, policy advocate, organizer, environmental educator, fundraiser, and media spokesperson. She serves as the national Coming Clean Collaborative’s Policy workgroup co-leader, an evolution of her co-leadership of the national Healthy Building Network PVC Hot Spots workgroup from 2002-2003. She co-authored Building Green without Going in the Red: A Household Guide to Healthy, Affordable Building Materials.

She serves on Assembly Environmental Conservation Chair Thomas DiNapoli’s Brownfields Taskforce, the NYS Groundwater Advisory Panel, NY’s Taskforce on Flame Retardant Safety, and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine’s Children’s Advocacy Panel. Kathy created and has directed CEC’s individual giving programs, including their Phone Outreach program, Major Donor program and Community Outreach Program, which generate direct grassroots support for and significantly furthers our priority statewide campaigns, as well as aiding member groups fighting local environmental battles. Prior to joining CEC, Ms. Curtis served for five years as Outreach Director for Environmental Advocates. She serves on the Town of Rotterdam’s Conservation Advisory Council as well as on the Board of Trustees of Kids Against Pollution, a national environmental education organization.

Judith Robinson

Judith Robinson has worked in the environmental health and justice movement for nearly 10 years. Her background is in grassroots organizing. She was Western New York Director of Citizens’ Environmental Coalition, where she was lead organizer for 17 counties focusing on air toxics, groundwater contamination, Superfund and brownfields remediation, and corporate accountability campaigns. She is currently Director of Special Projects for Environmental Health Fund and National co-coordinator of some 100 environmental health and justice groups that are formally collaborating to reform the chemical industry so it is no longer a source of harm for public health or the environment. Her focuses are the intersection of campaigns on policy and market reform, fenceline direct corporate engagement strategies, state of the art environmental monitoring research, and collaborative messaging. Judy has appeared in dozens of newspaper accounts, has peer reviewed and written numerous reports and been a guest of many radio and television programs on environmental health.

Ms. Robinson and Ms Curtis have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

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