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When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3abb7658ee5c30dc6e58c9/1605211569011-HYIP9HJUBL5Z0F3KW1EI/Michael+Lerner.jpg Team - Michael Lerner, President Michael Lerner, Ph.D., is President and co-founder of the Jenifer Altman Foundation and of Commonweal. Commonweal, founded in 1976, is a nonprofit center in Bolinas, California. Commonweal offers programs in health and healing, education and the arts, and environment and justice. Michael's work at Commonweal focuses on the Commonweal Cancer Help Program, Healing Circles, CancerChoices, The New School at Commonweal, and the Resilience Project, each of which he co-founded. He is the author of Choices in Healing from MIT Press. He taught at Yale in the early 1970s before moving to Bolinas in 1972. He received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship for contributions to public health in 1984. Michael is a co-founder and chair emeritus of the Health and Environmental Funders Network and co-founder and President Emeritus of Smith Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, DC, and co-founder of Omega. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3abb7658ee5c30dc6e58c9/f1b951f9-a6fa-4f4b-8dcb-aacb82193cf2/Elise+Miller.jpg Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3abb7658ee5c30dc6e58c9/1600880886424-4TZIOQHUNC229JVX8VND/Pete+Myers+new+2020.JPG Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3abb7658ee5c30dc6e58c9/5a136250-5eaf-4080-8a53-053eaeef0163/Nse+Obot+Witherspoon.jpg Team - Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, Board Member Ms. Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, MPH, serves as the Executive Director for the Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN), where her responsibilities include successfully organizing, leading, and managing child-protective policy, education/training, and science-related programs. For the past 23 years, she has served as a key spokesperson for children’s vulnerabilities and the need for their protection, conducting presentations and lectures across the country. She is a leader in the field of children’s environmental health, serving on the External Science Board for the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) NIH Research work. She is a Co-Leader the Health/Science initiative of the Cancer Free Economy Network and Co-Chair of the National Environmental Health Partnership Council. Ms. Witherspoon is also the Board Chair for the Pesticide Action Network of North America, Board Member for the Environmental Integrity Project Healthy Building Network, and Jenifer Altman Foundation, and serves on the Maryland Children’s Environmental Health Advisory Council. Ms. Witherspoon has held past appointments on the Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee for the Environmental Protection Agency, the NIH Council of Councils, the Science Advisory Board for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Board for the American Public Health Association. She is a past member of the National Association of Environmental Health Sciences Council and the Institute of Medicine’s Environmental Health Sciences Roundtable. Ms. Witherspoon has a variety of publications and has the distinct honor of having one of CEHN’s leadership awards, the Nsedu Obot Witherspoon (NOW) Youth Leadership Award, named in her honor. She is also the recent recipient of the William R. Reilly Award in Environmental Leadership from the Center for Environmental Policy at American University and the Snowy Egret Award from the Eastern Queens Alliance. Ms. Witherspoon has a B.S. in Biology Pre Med from Siena College and a M.P.H. in Maternal and Child Health from The George Washington University, School of Public Health and Health Services. She is a proud mom to 4 children! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3abb7658ee5c30dc6e58c9/e69d3ce5-0bb1-48f0-bbde-b1268f61555a/Ann+Blake+Photo.jpg Team - Ann Blake, Executive Director Dr. Ann Blake combines thirty years of experience finding safer chemicals and materials in over a dozen different global sectors of consumer product manufacturing with her passion for economic and environmental justice and systems approaches to the task of building resilient local and regional economies. Dr. Blake was Founder and Principal of Environmental & Public Health consulting for twenty years, focusing on disproportionate exposures among workers in manufacturing and service sectors. From 2015 to 2020 she was part of the leadership team for the Cancer-Free Economy Network. Dr. Blake holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, and a Ph.D. in molecular genetics and neural development from the University of Oregon. Dr. Blake is a member of the Green Ribbon Science Panel created by the California legislature to advise California EPA on the implementation of California’s Safer Consumer Product regulations. She has created curriculum on green chemistry and alternatives assessment for the University of California Berkeley Extension Program and the University of Washington Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. With Eric Toensmeier, she co-authored Perennial Industrial Crops: Green Chemistry and Carbon Sequestration, in the 2019 Springer Handbook of Ecomaterials. In addition to managing the Foundation's grantmaking and staff, Dr. Blake leads our consultancy work with client foundations. Areas of focus for these portfolios include chemical policy, global grassroots movement building, environmental health and justice advocacy and international trade. In her spare time, Ann is an avid hiker, gardener, textile artist, vocalist and upright jazz bass player. Ann can be reached at ablake (at) jaf (dot) org. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3abb7658ee5c30dc6e58c9/1605060016710-7OQCNZC9QZM0XLU4WG7Z/RH+Pasadena.jpg Team - Richard Horan, Grants Manager Richard has worked many years in the non-profit field, currently as Grants Manager with the Jenifer Altman Foundation. A former software programmer/analyst who moved to San Francisco from Philadelphia, he has spent most of his life in New York City, earning a music business degree at NYU and studying computer programming at Columbia. 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