Paul Adelstein
Actor and Musician

Treasurer

Paul Adelstein is an actor and musician. After attending Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, he became a founding member of New Crime Productions, a theatre company in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois, whose productions focused on social inequalities. After working with the Steppenwolf Theatre for a number of years, Paul started working primarily in television and film. Credits include the Coen brothers' Intolerable Cruelty, Memoirs of a Geisha, Be Cool, Bedazzled, Prison Break and Grey's Anatomy spinoff, Private Practice. Paul is also a composer and songwriter. His band, Doris, has released two well received albums. In addition, Paul composed the score for the HBO short film Mullitt, as well as scoring television spots for Emily's List and Organ Donors of Illinois, among others.

Julie Parker Benello
Chicken & Egg PicturesSecretary

Julie produces documentaries on health and environmental issues for television. She co-produced the Sundance award winning HBO documentary BLUE VINYL, a film in search of the truth about vinyl (PVC), America’s most popular plastic. Previously she produced a film for PBS entitled Prostate Cancer: A Journey of Hope.

Cecil Corbin-Mark
WE ACT

Cecil Corbin-Mark is the director of programs for WE ACT for Environmental Justice (WE ACT). Founded in 1988, WE ACT was New York's first environmental justice organization created to improve environmental health and quality of life in communities of color. He works on campaigns that seek to: remove carcinogenic diesel soot from school bus cabins, bring fresh locally grown food into NYC public schools, combat global warming, and build market-based and legislative solutions to protect New York communities from toxic chemicals. Cecil comes from a family that is no stranger to the pursuit of social justice. He is the great nephew of Louis E. Burnham, a co-editor with Paul Robeson of the journal Freedom and a leader of the Alabama-based Southern Negro Youth Congress in the 1940's. Cecil continues the work of his great uncle and several other family members today as he helps to lead WE ACT in its work with residents and the political establishment to create a more just and sustainable future. A lifelong resident of Harlem's Hamilton Heights Historic District (aka Sugar Hill), Cecil holds a BA from Hunter College and a MPhil from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. 

Antonio Diaz
PODER
Co-Chair

Antonio is the Executive Director of PODER (People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights), a community-based organization in San Francisco’s Mission District. He is a nationally known leader in the environmental justice community and is an Advisory Board Member of Corpwatch.

Kathy Gerwig
Kaiser Permanente
Co-ChairKathy is Vice-President for Work Place Safety and Environmental Stewardship Officer at Kaiser-Permanente. Kathy is responsible for developing, organizing and managing a nationwide environmental initiative for Kaiser Permanente. She is a visionary leader in moving industry away from the use of toxic chemicals, and is on the Board of Directors of Health Care Without Harm.
Anuja Mendiratta
Nonprofit and Philanthropic Consultant

Anuja is an independent consultant working in the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors with foundations, donors, nonprofit organizations, community groups, and coalitions on a range of environmental and social justice issues.  Prior to launching her consulting business, Anuja served as a senior program officer with the Women's Foundation of California, managed the San Francisco Foundation's Environmental Health and Justice Initiative, and worked as a program officer at the Marin Community Foundation. In addition to serving on the board of the Center for Environmental Health, Anuja is also on the advisory board of the California Breast Cancer Research Program.  She holds an undergraduate degree from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and a Masters degree in Environmental Studies from York University in Toronto, Canada.  Anuja lives in Berkeley, California.

Marni Rosen
Jenifer Altman Foundation

Marni Rosen is the Executive Director of the Jenifer Altman Foundation, a small private foundation focused on environmental health and justice and mind-body health work.  Through her work with JAF, Marni also directs the Barbara Smith Fund, the Bet Lev Foundation and the Environmental Health programs of the Upstream Fund and the StarFire Fund.  In addition, she advised the Marisla Foundation on their Global South grantmaking in environmental health and justice.  Prior to joining the foundations in 1999, Marni was the Associate Director of the Children's Environmental Health Network (California) and lived in Kenya for three years where she served as NGO Liaison for a major United Nations conference, the City Summit.  Currently, she is co-chair of the Health and Environmental Funders Network and serves on the Environmental Grantmakers Association Management Board. 

Katie Silberman, J.D.
Science and Environmental Health Network

Katie is the Associate Director for the Science and Environmental Health Network. Prior to joining the Board, Katie was CEH’s Associate Director and Policy Program Director for five years. Katie has also worked with such organizations as Breast Cancer Action, Communities for a Better Environment and the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment. Katie graduated from Brown University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.