Ben Wright
Mr. Wright is the
global warming advocate for Environment Massachusetts. Previously Mr. Wright worked with the city of Berlin, Germany
lobbying the European Union for structural funds to support parks, forests and
the development of sustainable low-income housing in the city. Mr. Wright organized and presented at conferences
throughout Eastern Europe designed to improve
the way waning industrial cities shape and develop their urban
environment. Mr. Wright also worked with
‘planpolitik’ a German firm working to foster political engagement among high
school and college students in Europe, the Middle East and China. Mr. Wright graduated from New College of Florida in
2005 and will receive his Masters in International Relations from the Freie
Universität Berlin
in March.
Winston Vaughan
Mr. Vaughan is the Field Organizer for Environment Massachusetts. He
began his public interest career as a citizen outreach director and has
directed offices in New York, Cleveland, Cincinnati and, most recently,
Los Angeles, where he worked to pass first-of-its-kind legislation
expanding roof-top solar power and curbing global warming pollution.
Mr. Vaughan also worked as a development associate with Environment New
Mexico to expand environmental organizing in the most rapidly growing
region of the country. He graduated from Oberlin College in 2003 with
degrees in politics and third world studies.
Nora Ellertsen
Ms. Ellertsen is the Development Associate for Environment Massachusetts Research & Policy Center. She is
responsible for organizing
outreach to Environment Massachusetts' membership base and expanding
the organization's
financial and political resources. Nora joined staff as part of the
PIRG Fellowship Program in 2003, working with MASSPIRG and the other
state PIRGs in New England on federal environmental and consumer
protection campaigns including national forest preservation and
advocacy for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She then spent a year
directing an outreach office for U.S.PIRG, Environment Massachusetts'
national lobby
office, in Washington, D.C. Nora graduated with honors from New York
University in 2003 with a degree in Individualized Studies focused on
progressive environmental activism.
