Coalition for Healthy Ports Coordinator
Kelli Koontz-Wilson is a native and resident of Newark, New Jersey. She has coordinated Drug and Alcohol Prevention Programs for the Leaguers, Inc., the National Council for Drug and Alcohol Dependence, as well as the Jersey City Communities that Care Coalition.
Her passion has been to engage the community to use the Arts to promote anti-drug campaigns using a Peer Leadership model. Her ATOD (Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs) work with the Coalition also involved assisting volunteers to improve their communities utilizing an Environmental Strategies model.
She has worked for the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) as the Coordinator for Dance and Theatre Residencies. She enjoys theater, writing, and poetry. She feels strongly that the Arts can be used in a variety of ways to help promote healing and understanding. After receiving her BA in Theatre Studies, she set her sights on Higher Education. As a manager in the Career Development Services Department at NJIT, she enjoyed working with diverse groups of students. Afterwards, she worked in Alumni Engagement at Princeton University as the Coordinator for Affinity Programs.
Kelli is ecstatic to work for Clean Water Action as the Coordinator for Healthy Ports. She feels that there is no cause more vital than the environment, and no organization more passionate and dedicated than Clean Water Action.
