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John is Associate Director of the Campaign for America’s Wilderness and has consulted with national foundations and organizations to develop and promote campaigns to protect old-growth forests, critical habitat and road-free areas in National Forests. He spent a year at the Rockefeller Family Fund as Program Associate and, from 1988-1992, served as Executive Director of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group. He has previously worked with The Center for Study of Responsive Law, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), and currently serves on the board of the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation. John holds a bachelor’s degree from New York University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. | John is Associate Director of the Campaign for America’s Wilderness and has consulted with national foundations and organizations to develop and promote campaigns to protect old-growth forests, critical habitat and road-free areas in National Forests. He spent a year at the Rockefeller Family Fund as Program Associate and, from 1988-1992, served as Executive Director of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group. He has previously worked with The Center for Study of Responsive Law, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), and currently serves on the board of the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation. John holds a bachelor’s degree from New York University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. | ||
Revision as of 21:29, 8 October 2011
Public Interest Projects
Board of Directors
As of 2011;[1]
John Gilroy (President), Campaign for America’s Wilderness, Pittsford, NY
John is Associate Director of the Campaign for America’s Wilderness and has consulted with national foundations and organizations to develop and promote campaigns to protect old-growth forests, critical habitat and road-free areas in National Forests. He spent a year at the Rockefeller Family Fund as Program Associate and, from 1988-1992, served as Executive Director of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group. He has previously worked with The Center for Study of Responsive Law, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), and currently serves on the board of the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation. John holds a bachelor’s degree from New York University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
Mark Colon (Vice President), Attorney, New York, NY
Mark is the Deputy Counsel of New York State’s Division of Housing & Community Renewal (“DHCR”), where he provides legal advice to the State’s housing commissioner and assists DHCR’s executive staff in the formulation and enforcement of agency policy. Previously, Mark spent several years as an associate in the Real Estate & Finance practices of two major international law firms.
Mark is an active member of the Puerto Rican and New York City Bar Associations. He graduated magna cum laude from Hunter College (CUNY) and received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was the Managing Editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review. Upon graduating from law school, he clerked for the Honorable Julio M. Fuentes, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Prior to attending law school, he worked for the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), focusing on issues of environmental justice and public health.
Gina Kim (Director)
Gina Kim is a television producer who’s worked for NBC, CBS, MTV, Bravo and PBS. She was most recently the supervising producer of a daily, political news show, GRITtv with Laura Flanders.
Gina has produced for NOW with Bill Moyers and David Brancaccio, a political news magazine show on PBS, Phil Donahue on MSNBC, comedian, Lewis Black, and filmmaker Michael Moore on “The Awful Truth” and “Bowling for Columbine”. She worked with NBC’s Tom Brokaw in the run up to the 2003 Iraq War and produced videos for the rock band, Rage Against the Machine.
Prior to her career in television, Gina directed campaigns on climate change and tort reform for the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) and worked for the White House Office of Advance for Bill Clinton.
Eli Il Yong Lee (Director), Independent Consultant, New Mexico
Eli Il Yong Lee is an independent consultant with more than 25 years of executive leadership, issue advocacy and political campaigns, both nationally and in New Mexico. From city council and school board races to statewide initiatives, he has served as campaign manager or general consultant for more than 80 progressive electoral and issue campaigns, with wins in 75 percent of these contests. Eli was the founding CEO of the Center for Civic Policy, which advanced innovations in nonpartisan civic engagement in the fields of communications, modeling and external metrics. He’s a board member of State Voices; the former Board President of the Asian American Association of New Mexico; a former board member of the State of New Mexico’s Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. Commission; and a longtime board member of the Andrew Goodman Foundation, founded by his mentor, Dr. Carolyn Goodman, the mother of murdered Civil Rights worker Andrew Goodman. He is a 1990 graduate of Columbia University, and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.