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Kids Help Monitor Newark's Dirty Diesel Near Their School
In December member groups of the Coalition for Healthy Ports (CHPs, which NJEF chairs) and dozens of environmentalists, community activists, port drivers, and students conducted a truck count at various locations in the East and South Wards of Newark where port trucks first hit the local streets.
The Ironbound Community Corporation (ICC) did a great job organizing truck counting in front of the Hawkins Street School and other neighborhood locations in Newark. Additional truck counting was conducted in the South Ward by the graduates of NJEF's Newark-based Urban Environmental Institute.
Curt Moultine
Curt began his canvassing career with the Michigan Citizen’s Lobby in August of 1989. He became Canvass Director for Georgia Citizen Action in March of 1991 and continued in the same role for Clean Water Action in Lansing, Michigan from 1993 until 2001.
Among his accomplishments as a Canvass Director, Curt promoted over a dozen staff members who went on to become Canvass Directors and Program Directors. In his current role with the Hudson Bay Company, Curt works with the Michigan Clean Water Action field canvasses.
He currently resides in Charlotte, Michigan with his wife Carol. They have 3
Emily Woodcock
Emily began at Clean Water Action in September 2004 in Ann Arbor where she filled several roles such as Senior Field Manager, before her current position as Canvass Director. She also canvasses two days a week, and immensely values her time spent training staff and organizing in the community. Emily grew up near Philadelphia, raised by parents who taught her early on the importance of working to better the community in which she lived. Before working for Clean Water Action, Emily spent a year as a Field Manager at the Rape Assistance and Awareness Program in Denver. She also has a degree in
Sean McBrearty
Sean learned the importance of protecting drinking water and our environment from a young age, growing up in a community devastated by perennial droughts and poor water and air quality in California’s central valley. He worked briefly as a firefighter before leaving California to attend school at Franciscan University in Ohio, where he studied History. Sean married his wife, Rose, in 2010 and moved to Grand Rapids, where he worked retail before joining Clean Water Action in Lansing in 2011.
Sean started out as a canvasser, became a Field Manager, then Senior Field Manager, and became the
Emily Tate
Emily has worked for Clean Water Action since 2004 after moving from Atlanta, GA to escape the heat. She’s been organizing since and became Phone Canvass Director in 2008. While based in Minnesota, Emily has cross-trained in numerous allied offices throughout the country, including WA, CA, NJ, and IA.
Her background in organizing around labor and poverty-rights issues in the south led her to check out the grassroots work of Clean Water Action. She loves talking to people everyday about what's happening with the environment and inspiring people to get involved. Her favorite thing in the summer