On Wednesday, Governor Rick Snyder announced the members of the Environmental Justice Work Group.  The work group was created following a recommendation from the Flint Water Advisory Task Force and the Flint Water Interagency Coordinating Committee’s Policy Subcommittee.  The new group will be tasked with examining policy issues and developing guidance, training, and curriculum for state and local agencies.  The members are as follows:

• Chris Kolb of Ann Arbor is the executive director of Michigan Unity.
• Fadi Mourad of Farmington Hills is the director of environmental strategy and non-utility at DTE Energy.
• Mariam Bazzi of Dearborn is an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney at the Wayne County Prosecutor’s office and the lead attorney at the Deed and Mortgage Fraud Task Force.
• Sylvia Elliott of Detroit is the managing attorney and director at the Office of Legal Affairs for the Michigan Department of Civil Rights.
• Kathy Evans of Muskegon serves as environmental program manager of the West Michigan Shoreline Regional Development Commission.
• Charlotte Jameson of Ann Arbor is the government affairs director for the Michigan League of Conservation Voters
• Jegar Johansen of Marcellus runs the Wilbur Ellis Company-Three Rivers Branch and was a founder of Johansen Farms, LLC
• Kathleen Lomako of Livonia is the deputy executive director of the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments.
• Jerome Maynard of Marquette is an attorney and mediator for Jerome I Maynard PLC.
• Paul Mohai of Ann Arbor is a professor in the school of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan.
• Kaushik Nag of Grand Rapids is the director of employee engagement at Amway
• Maggie Pallone of DeWitt is the deputy director of external affairs for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.
• Larry Reynolds of Flint is the president and CEO of Mott Children’s Health Center.
• Robert Sisson of Sturgis is the president and CEO of ConservAmerica.
• Andrew Such of Lansing is the director of Environmental and Regulatory Affairs for the Michigan Manufacturers Association.
• Jesse Venegas of Royal Oak is vice president of Ideal Group, a product manufacturing company.
• Kyle Whyte of Lansing is the associate professor of community sustainability, Timnick Chair in the Humanities in the College of Arts and Letters and an associate professor of philosophy at Michigan State University.
• Guy Williams of Ypsilanti is the president and CEO of Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice as well as the principal for G.O. Williams & Associates LLC.

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