Michael Coates, Recruitment Director
Michael first started with the CWA canvass in August of 2007 and became the Recruitment Director at the start of 2008. He became CWA's newest Organizer at the start of 2010 and is working on CWA campaigns in Newport and Warwick.  As Recruitment Director he is responsible for recruiting, and maintaining one of CWA's largest canvass offices. Michael enjoys studying languages, solving Rubik's cubes, and reading philosophy. Michael is currently a Political Science major at CCRI and lives in Providence with his girlfriend. E-mail Mike

Eric Tretton, Canvass Director 

Nicole Poepping, Campaign Organizer
Nicole has worked with Clean Water Action since November of 2009 as the lead organizer of the Rhode Island Diesel Pollution Initiative, a coalition of 40 health, labor and environmental organizations in the state. A native Wisconsinite, she graduated with an Honors BA in Environmental Studies from Brown University and completed her theis on support systems for sustainable agriculture in Rhode Island. Before she came to Clean Water Action Nicole Managed the Building a Healthy Newport Environment Coalition (BHNEC) in Newport, RI and worked as a consultant for the Providence Plan. In Providence, she keeps busy singing with the Providence Singers, knitting sweaters, spinning yarn, and going to as many farmers markets as possible. E-mail Nicole

Sheila Dormody, Rhode Island Director
Sheila has been involved in advocacy, grassroots organizing, and training activists for the environmental and peace movements since 1989. Sheila joined the Rhode Island staff in 2000 and led the Rhode Island campaign that has won first-in-the-nation policies to phase out products that contain mercury. In 2008 she won a U.S. EPA Merit Award for her work to prevent mercury pollution. She is the coordinator of the Coalition for Water Security which brings together 18 Rhode Island environmental organizations to promote sustainable water management policies. She also is the Policy Co-Chair of the national Electronics TakeBack Coalition working to require electronics manufacturers to take responsibility for recycling their products. Sheila lives in Providence with her husband, Jim Amspacher.
E-mail Sheila