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.