Outreach & Engagement Manager, Environment Illinois
Started on staff: 2010
B.A., Boston University
Emily manages the marketing and public engagement strategy for Environment Illinois’s campaigns, including our campaign to protect the Great Lakes from plastic pollution. Emily lives in Chicago where she enjoys knitting and biking.
A new program helps some households access clean drinking water with filters certified to remove lead, without exacerbating the plastic pollution crisis and its toxic impacts.
Wetlands play a vital role in a healthy environment, but due to sprawl and other human activity less than 10% of Illinois’ historic wetlands remain. We’re supporting a state wetland protection program to safeguard what we have left.
Repair cuts waste, saves consumers money and is the right thing to do for protecting the planet.
Exploring the lives of a migratory wetland bird of the Mississippi flyway.
