Background of Speakers, Workshop Facilitators and Workshop Representatives (in order of appearance on the program)

FRIDAY SESSION

Dr. John Peters is director of the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center (SCEHSC), funded by the NIEHS. He is Hastings Professor of Preventive Medicine at Keck School of Medicine of USC and directs chair of the Environmental Health Division. He also directs the Children's Health Study, which has followed 6000 children for more than 10 years in Southern California communities to learn the effects of air pollution on the health of their lungs.

Andrea Hricko is the director of the Community Outreach and Education Program at the SCEHSC. She organizes projects that help translate the importance of SCEHSC's research to members of the community and that help SCEHSC scientists understand critical community concerns.

Councilwoman Janice Hahn is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the fifteenth district, which includes San Pedro, Wilmington, Harbor City, Harbor Gateway and Watts. In her first four years in office, Councilwoman Hahn has led the efforts to introduce Extended Gate Hours at the ports, which will move truck traffic on freeways to off-peak hours.

Frank Colonna is a City Councilmember in the City of Long Beach and is also Vice-Chair of the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority (ACTA). He serves as Vice-Chair of the Gateway Cities Council of Governments I-710 Oversight Policy Committee.

Dr. Kenneth Olden is director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, an institute of the National Institutes of Health. The mission of the NIEHS is to reduce the burden of illness from environmental causes. NIEHS funds university research centers, as well as community/university/healthcare environmental justice partnerships.

Marianne Venieris is Executive Director of the Center for International Trade and Transportation (CITT), a collaboration between USC and California State University at Long Beach. CITT is affiliated with METRANS, a university transportation center directed by USC's Dr. Genevieve Giuliano.

Tom O'Brien is the Director of Research for the Center for International Trade and Transportation. He is author of a CITT white paper on goods movement that you can find in the Town Meeting binder.

Terry Tamminen is Cabinet Secretary to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Formerly, he was Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA).

Ed Avol is Professor of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine at USC. He directs numerous health and exposure research sampling studies and serves on the ayor of Los Angeles' “No Net Increase Task Force” He is also a health consultant to the Port of L.A.’s Community Advisory Committee and an SCEHSC member.

Jesse Marquez is director of a community-based group based in Wilmington, California, Coalition for a Safe Environment. The Coalition has 300 members and works to reduce Port-related environmental health impacts.

Miguel Lopez is Port Representative for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Evangelina Ramirez is a founding member of the Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma (LBACA) and is a trained community/health leader through the city’s leadership development programs. She is a mother of three, including a daughter with asthma, and lives very close to the port complex, the 710 freeway and the oil refineries.

Sylvia Betancourt grew up in Commerce in a 3-block area of homes immediately west of the 710 Freeway and between the BNSF and Union Pacific rail yards. She works with East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice.

Penny Newman directs the community-based group Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ) in Riverside. CCAEJ is particularly concerned about expansion of intermodal facilities, the potential impacts of an Inland Port, and diesel exhaust from trucks at distribution centers.

Dr. Beate Ritz is an Associate Professor in the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health and in the Department of Epidemiology at UCLA School of Public Health. Her research includes air pollution and birth outcomes (such as low birth weight, pre-term birth and birth defects), with a focus on traffic-related pollutants. She is also a member of the SCEHSC.

Dr. Jim Gauderman is an Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine at Keck School of Medicine, USC, and he directs the SCEHSC's biostatistics program. He is lead author of a recent paper showing the effects of air pollution on children's lung function.

Dr. Janice Kim is a pediatrician with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment of the California Environmental Protection Agency. She has published papers on the effects of living close to busy roads and freeways and is lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics policy document on children and air pollution (which can be found in the binder).

Dr. David Diaz-Sanchez is Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at UCLA and a member of the SCEHSC. His research focuses on the role of the environment in affecting immune responses. He is interested in the role of combustion products (such as diesel exhaust) in exacerbating or initiating allergies.

Dr. John Froines directs the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at UCLA and the Southern California Particle Center and Supersite. He is Chair of the State of California Scientific Review Panel and directs the SCEHSC’s exposure assessment program.

Bill Jones is Children's Health Coordinator and Coordinator of the West Coast Diesel Collaborative for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9.

SATURDAY SESSION

Dr. John Peters is director of the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center, funded by the NIEHS. He is Hastings Professor of Preventive Medicine at Keck School of Medicine of USC and director of the Environmental Health Division. He also directs the Children's Health Study.

Jon Haveman is an economist with the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) in San Francisco and co-author of the PPIC report, California's Global Gateways: Trends and Issues (2004), part of which is in your Town Meeting binder.

Goetz Wolff is a professor of urban planning and policy at UCLA. He is an economic development and a consultant to labor unions on economic issues.

Mark Pisano is Executive Director of the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), which functions as the Metropolitan Planning Organization for six counties: L.A., Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, Ventura and Imperial. SCAG is mandated by the federal government to develop plans for transportation, growth management, and air quality.

Julie Masters is an Attorney with Natural Resources Defense Council, based in Santa Monica. NRDC was the lead organization in a lawsuit that resulted in air pollution reduction measures at the China Shipping terminal, Port of Los Angeles.

Angelo Logan is Executive Director of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, a community-based group in City of Commerce. East Yards is concerned about locomotive and yard equipment emissions from intermodal facilities and diesel exhaust emissions from trucks on freeways and arterial streets.

Dr. Barry Wallerstein is Executive Officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD), the air pollution control agency for Orange County and major portions of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.

Dr. John Froines directs the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at UCLA and the Southern California Particle Center and Supersite. He chairs the State of California's Scientific Review Panel and the SCEHSC's exposure assessment research program.

Dr. Robert Kanter is the director of planning and environmental affairs for the Port of Long Beach. As director, Dr. Kanter guides the Port's environmental, transportation, and master planning divisions. He coordinates short- and long-range land-use planning and also identifies needs and develops plans for truck, train, and transportation infrastructure improvements that are required to meet the demands created by increasing international trade.

Dr. Ralph Appy is the Director of Environmental Management at the Port of Los Angeles, managing studies looking at air quality, transportation, water quality, lighting, aesthetics and noise. He is also member of the Mayor’s No Net Increase Task Force, which is preparing a plan to reduce Port emissions to levels existing in 2001.

Norman Tuck is the Labor Relations representative with ILWU Local #13. He also is an appointed member of the Mayor’s No Net Increase Task Force and is a member of the Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council.

Ingrid Lobet is a reporter and West Coast Bureau Chief for Living on Earth, the National Public Radio show on the environment.

Sen. Alan Lowenthal is State Senator from Long Beach and author of several bills aimed at reducing air pollution from port-related activities. His bill to reduce diesel emissions at the Ports by restricting truck idling was signed into law in 2003.

Todd Campbell is policy director of Coalition for Clean Air and is also a City Councilperson in the City of Burbank. One of the Coalition's current campaigns is focused on air pollution from marine ports, rail yards and distribution centers.

Dale Shimp is a member of the Environmental Justice Section of the Air Resources Board of the California Environmental Protection Agency.

Noel Park is President of the San Pedro & Peninsula Homeowners Coalition. He serves on the Tier II Community Advisory Committee related to the 710 Freeway expansion and the Mayor's No Net Increase Task Force.

Dr. Phillip Goad is representing the railroad industry at this event, through the courtesy of BNSF (Burlington Northern Santa Fe) and UP (Union Pacific). He is a toxicologist who teaches at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and he works for a firm called the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health. Dr. Goad has done air monitoring for the railroads, including work with Union Pacific on the Roseville yard study (part of which is in your binder). He also provides on-site support in emergency settings, such as train derailments.

Kirk Marckwald is principal of California Environmental Associates (CEA), a consulting firm in San Francisco. He has worked on California energy and environmental regulatory issues for over twenty-three years, primarily for major manufacturing and transportation companies as well as for trade associations and foundations. He is at the Town Meeting representing the American Association of Railroads, of which Union Pacific and BNSF are members.

T.L. Garrett is Vice-President of the pacific Merchant Shipping association, an organization which represents ocean carriers and merine terminals on the West Coast. He was previously in charge of the Air Resources Section for the Port of Los Angeles. During his time with the Port, Mr. Garrett was the environmental project manager on a number of capital development pprojects and Port air quality programs.

Ray Enriquez is a locomotive engineer in Los Angeles and is the Legislative Representative for BLET (Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen) Division 660. He is also a trainer for the Rail Workers Hazardous Materials Training Program, funded by the NIEHS.

Malcolm Carson is a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles' Community Economic Development unit. He is an appointee to the Tier II Community Advisory Committee for the 710 freeway design project.

Robert Gottlieb is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban Environmental Studies and Director of the Urban Environmental Policy Institute. He has written and co-authored many books about the environmental movement, including the most recent: The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City.