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National Environmental Education Foundation

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NEEF TRUSTEES & BOARD MEMBERS

Board of Trustees

Arthur Gibson (Chairman) VP of Environment, Health and Safety Baxter Healthcare Corporation Deerfield, IL	JL Armstrong (Vice Chair) National Manager, External Affairs Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. Torrance, CA
Kenneth Strassner (Treasurer) Strassner Consulting, LLC Roswell, GA	Diane W. Wood (Secretary) President National Environmental Education Foundation Washington, DC
Decker Anstrom Former CEO, The Weather Channel Companies Board of Directors, Comcast Corp Washington, DC	Raymond Ban Consultant, Weather Industry and Government Partnerships The Weather Channel Atlanta, GA
Holly Cannon Principal (Lawyer) Beveridge and Diamond, P.C. Washington, DC	Phillipe Cousteau Co-Founder and CEO EarthEcho International Washington, DC
Manuel Diaz Partner, Lydecker Diaz Former Mayor of Miami Miami, FL	Kenneth Olden, PhD, ScD, LHD Chairman, Avon Foundation Scientific Advisory Board Founding Dean of the City University of New York School of Public Health New York
Trish Silber President Aliniad Consulting Partners, Inc. Potomac, MD	Bradley Smith, PhD Dean Huxley College of the Environment Western Washington University Bellingham, WA

Honorary Board Members

Edward P. Bass President and C.E.O. Fine Line, Inc. Fort Worth, TX	James R. Donnelley Partner Stet & Query Limited Partnership Vice Chair R.R. Donnelley & Sons Illinois
Gilbert Grosvenor Chair National Geographic Society Washington, DC	Hon. Thomas Kean THK Consulting Far Hill, NJ
Fred Krupp Executive Director Environmental Defense New York, NY	Thomas Lovejoy, Ph.D. President Heinz Center Former Chief Biodiversity Advisor for World Bank Washington, DC
Francis P. Pandolfi Former President/CEO Times Mirror Magazines, Inc. Stonington, CT	The Hon. William K. Reilly Senior Advisor, TPG Capital LP, & Former Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency San Francisco, CA

Ex-Officio Trustees

David Caldwell Director of the Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Silver Spring, MD	Susan Coady-Kemnitzer Deputy Director Engineering Education and Centers Division National Science Foundation Arlington, VA
Mary Coulombe Chief, Natural Resource Management United States Army Corps of Engineers Washington, DC	CAPT Charles L. Higgins, USPHS Director, Office of Public Health National Park Service Washington, DC
Louisa Koch, PhD Director of Education National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Washington, DC	Dale Perry Acting Deputy Director Office of Environmental Education Environmental Protection Agency Washington, DC
Ericka Reid, PhD Director of the NIEHS Office of Science Education and Diversity National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Bethesda, MD	Robert Ridky, PhD Department of Interior Representative National Education Coordinator U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of the Interior Reston, VA
Safiya Samman Director, Conservation Education US Forest Service Washington, DC
Liaisons
John Conger Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Installations & Environment Department of Defense Washington, DC	U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Vacant Atlanta GA

Advisor
Henry Diamond, Esq. Beveridge and Diamond Washington, DC