Philadelphia

Brady Russell began working for Clean Water Action in the late summer of
2008. He became interested in the environment while watching TV specials
about Earth Day in 1990 back home in Pittsburg, Kansas. Since college,
he's been a professional organizer working with religious communities,
low-income people, national organizations, coalitions, unions and, for
three years, as the Campus Organizer for the student government at the
University of Wisconsin at Madison. He joined the fight against
charitable choice in the early years of the Bush Administration, worked
with a small team of Pennsylvania lobbyists to win the state's first
investment in home heating assistance for low-income people, helped pass
the minimum wage increase for Pennsylvania and convened the first local
forums on the Governor's plan to expand health insurance coverage in
four different cities across Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1999 from
Cornell University. 

Mary Donahue, Canvass Director

Colleen Meehan,  Program Organizer

Pittsburgh

Myron Arnowitt served as Clean Water Action's Western PA Director for eleven years and is currently the PA State Director. Myron has worked as a community organizer for over 18 years for a variety of neighborhood, environmental, and social justice organizations in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Chester, PA. Myron's local work with CWA in Pittsburgh included establishing PA's first community air monitoring program, and passage of strict air pollution compliance regulations. He has also helped residents with contaminated drinking water sources and worked with the Pittsburgh School District to reduce pesticide use. In addition to his Clean Water Action work, he serves locally on the board of the Central Northside Neighborhood Council.

Kathy Lawson joined the Clean Water Action staff in June 2007 as the Western PA Director. After years of experience in the business world, her professional relationship with The Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDA) led to an opportunity to express her personal concern for a clean environment as Director of the Healthy Children Project. During her time at LDA, she coordinated the organization's national educational, advocacy, and collaborative efforts to raise awareness of the link between unnecessary exposure to environmental toxicants and learning disabilities. Kathy is a native of Pittsburgh and is delighted to continue her work of preventing harm from exposure to dangerous chemicals with Clean Water Action.

Felicia Sam returned to her activist roots, after many unfulfilling years as a financial systems analyst, to open Clean Water Action's Pittsburgh Phone Canvass in 1988. She became the director of the program, building it into one of the most successful canvasses in the country. Felicia has coordinated work on hundreds of issue and election campaigns, and in spite of the many exciting campaign victories, she feels her most important role has been recruiting and training hundreds of activists and organizers throughout the country, many of which continue to inspire her today.

Tom Hoffman, Western Pennsylvania Director

Steve Hvodzovich, Marcellus Campaign Coordinator

Emily Clack, Field Canvass Director: 

Emily is a Minnesota native brought from the frozen tundra of the north to fight for PA's waterways. After finishing degrees in Theatre and International Politics from Loyola University Chicago, she decided to dedicate her life to fighting for environmental grassroots politics. During her tenure with Clean Water she has mobilized citizens to take action in Minnesota, Maryland, New Jersey, DC and now Pennsylvania. Emily feels privileged to help new activists find their own voices. In her spare time she enjoys manatees, bingo, and politicking.

Julie St. John, Community Organizer

Harrisburg

Nathan Sooy, Harrisburg Campaign Coordinator