Movers & Shakers

• Pages: 60-61

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Movers & Shakers

MOVERS

Jim Barrett joins the

Department of Energy’s

Loan Pro-

grams Oce

as a senior

consultant.

In his role,

Barrett will

identify and

provide nancial support

to innovative projects that

advance clean energy and

reduce greenhouse gas

emissions.

e National Park Service

announces Brandon Bies

as deputy

superintendent

of Acadia Na-

tional Park and

the St. Croix

Island Interna-

tional Historic

Site in Maine. Bies was most

recently superintendent of

Manassas National Battleeld

Park in Virginia.

Angela Coleman will now

serve as associate chief for the

Forest Service.

She arrives with

more than 30

years of leader-

ship experience

at the agency.

Jennifer Eberlien has

been named regional for-

ester for the Pacic South-

west Region,

overseeing

California,

Hawaii, and

U.S.-aliated

Pacic islands.

Eberlien

previously served as associate

deputy chief for the national

forest system.

e White House Oce of

Science and Technology Pol-

icy has named

Kate Dargan

Marquis as

assistant director

for disaster pre-

paredness and

response. Mar-

quis was formerly California’s

re marshal.

Nora Moraga-Lewy joins

Conservation International

as manager of peace and

conict resolution. She most

recently served as manager

of the Rainforest Journalism

Fund at the Pulitzer Center

on Crisis Reporting, and is a

former ELI research associ-

ate.

Laura Morton will now

serve as partner in the envi-

ronment, energy,

and resources

practice at Per-

kins Coie LLP.

Morton arrives

from her previ-

ous role as senior

director of policy and regula-

tory aairs for oshore wind

at American Clean Power.

Adam Ortiz has been

tapped as administrator of

EPA Region 3,

which oversees

the mid-Atlantic

states. Ortiz

was previously

director of the

Montgomery

County, MD, Department of

Environmental Protection.

Hilary Harp Falk takes the

helm as president and CEO

of the Chesa-

peake Bay

Foundation.

She most re-

cently worked

for more than

a decade at the

National Wildlife Federation.

Joaquin Gallegos has been

appointed special assistant

to Assistant

Secretary for

Indian Aairs

Bryan Newland

at the Interior.

Gallegos previ-

ously worked as

a sta attorney for the Mille

Lacs Band of Ojibwe in Min-

nesota.

Adaptation Leader LLC, a

climate adaptation con-

sultancy, welcomes Nina

Luzzatto Gardner as

strategic advisor. She is

the director and founder

of Strategy International,

a corporate sustainability

and environmental, social,

and governance risk advisory

rm.

e Biden administration has

tapped Patrick Gonza-

lez as assistant director for

climate and

biodiversity

at the White

House Oce

of Science

and Technology

Policy. Gonza-

lez arrives with more than a

decade of experience at the

National Park Service and

is an adjunct professor at

the University of California,

Berkeley.

DOE welcomes Betony

Jones as senior adviser on

workforce

at the Oce

of Energy

Eciency

and Renew-

able Energy.

Jones is the

founder of Inclusive Eco-

nomics, a consulting rm

focused on labor, climate,

and equity issues.

Josh Kaplowitz joins feder-

al advocacy group American

Clean Power Association as

vice president of oshore

wind. He was formerly an

attorney at the Interior’s

Bureau of Ocean Energy

Management.

Elin Katz will now lead

FERC’s Oce of Public

Participation

as the rst di-

rector of the

new division.

She arrives

from Tilson

Technology

Management.

Wizipan Little Elk joins

the Interior as principal

deputy assistant secretary for

Indian aairs.

Little Elk was

most recently

CEO of the

Redco eco-

system of or-

ganizations,

the economic develop-

ment arm of the Sicangu

Oyate tribe in South Dakota,

of which he is a member.

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