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Gina Briggs

Gina M. Briggs, JD, LLM, is Executive Editor at Quiet Coalition and serves on the Legal Advisory Council for Quiet Communities.

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Chuck Elkins

Chuck Elkins, JD, is a former staff member of the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (25 years) directing nationwide programs on air pollution, pesticides, toxic chemicals, radiation, noise, and stratospheric ozone.

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Val Seiling Jacobs

Valerie Seiling Jacobs, JD, practiced corporate law for more than 20 years before switching to teaching writing at Columbia University and working part-time as a freelance writer and editor.

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John Griffith Johnson, Jr.

John Griffith Johnson, Jr. (Grif) is an attorney. After receiving his law degree in 1976, he worked in various law firms over the next 45 years.

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Jeanne Kempthorne

Jeanne Kempthorne, JD, is a retired lawyer and mediator. She served as a federal and state prosecutor, and was for many years a criminal defense lawyer, concentrating on post-conviction representation.

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Joel Mintz

Joel A. Mintz, JD, LLM, JSD, is Professor of Law Emeritus and C. William Trout Senior Fellow in Public Interest Law, Nova Southeastern University College of Law.

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Rick Reibstein

Rick Reibstein, JD, is an environmental lawyer. He is the former manager of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction program. Prior to that he worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Sidney Shapiro

Sidney Shapiro, JD, is the Frank U. Fletcher Chair of Administrative Law at Wake Forest University School of Law in Winston-Salem, NC.

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Steve Taber

Steven Taber, JD, is a partner at Leech Tishman, where he leads the firm’s Aviation & Aerospace Industry Group and co-leads the Environmental Group.