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Staff


Thomas Linzey, Esq., Executive Director.  Thomas is a co-founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund and serves as chief legal counsel.  

Stacey Schmader, Administrative Director and National Democracy School Director.  Stacey is a co-founder of the Legal Defense Fund.  She runs the Democracy School program and edits our newsletter Susquehanna.

Mari Margil, Associate Director. Mari is our first Associate Director.  We created this position to meet our growing strategic, outreach, and development needs. 
Ben Price, Projects Director.  Ben leads our organizing across Pennsylvania where over 100 communities have adopted Legal Defense Fund-drafted laws. As Projects Director he assists strategic organizing in all areas of the country, and travels as needed to move the organizing and support movement-building. 

Gail Darrell, New England Community Organizer.  Gail led the organizing campaign to pass the CELDF-drafted Ordinance in Barnstead, New Hampshire, creating the first in the nation law banning corporations from withdrawing water in a community.



Chad Nicholson, Pennsylvania Community Rights Network Coordinator.  Chad joined our staff in 2010, after working with Envision Spokane. He now lives and organizes in Pennsylvania, building a statewide network of communities to expand our grassroots organizing and move our organizing framework to the state level.

Kai Huschke, Washington Community Organizer. Kai is a board member of Envision Spokane and is working to organize other communities in Washington.

Emelyn Lybarger, Outreach Assistant. Emelyn edits our newsletter, maintains our database, and conducts media and fundraising outreach.

Kathleen Dudley, New Mexico Community Organizer.  Kathleen spearheaded the organizing campaign in New Mexico that  led to the first community in the Southwest to adopt a CELDF-drafted Community Bill of Rights banning shale gas drilling and fracking. 

Tish O'Dell, Ohio Community Organizer. Tish co-founded the grass-roots organization in Broadview Heights, OH that successfully campaigned to adopt a Home Rule Charter amendment creating a Community Bill of Rights banning shale gas drilling and fracking.