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 Michael Belliveau
Mike
Belliveau has more than twenty years of experience as an advocate,
organizer, leader and manager in public interest work to prevent
environmental health hazards. He grew up in New England and graduated
from MIT with a degree in environmental science. Before founding the
Environmental Health Strategy Center, he served for three years as the
Director of the Toxics and Clean Production Project for the Natural
Resources Council of Maine (NRCM), the state's leading environmental
advocacy group.
As a
project leader at NRCM, he designed and led winning policy campaigns
and coalitions to eliminate mercury hazards and promote safer
alternatives to PVC plastic, which forms dioxin when it burns. Prior to
his tenure with the Council, he spent eighteen years in California,
serving as program director and executive director of Communities for a
Better Environment (CBE) in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Belliveau
built CBE into a powerful voice for environmental health, justice and
industrial pollution prevention with more than twenty staff working in
the two major urban areas of the nation's largest state.
Mike is
based out of the Bangor office of Environmental Health Strategy Center.
He lives in Hudson on Pushaw Lake with wildlife biologist Dianne Kopec
and their two daughters, Mariah and Gaelin.
Amanda Sears
Amanda Sears is a seasoned organizer with extensive experience running
environmental issue campaigns. She grew up in New Hampshire with family
roots in Maine. Amanda graduated from Clark University with a degree in
physical geography. For two years, she was the Outreach Coordinator for
toxics and air quality issues at the Natural Resources Council of
Maine. At the Council, Amanda directed the grassroots lobbying campaign
that supported the passage of a first-in-the-nation law to force auto
manufacturers to pay for collection of mercury switches from old cars.
She also organized a thermometer exchange with 37 Maine hospitals and
state employees that took nearly 10,000 mercury thermometers out of
circulation, distributing 3,600 mercury-free digital alternatives to
replace them. Prior to joining the Council staff, Amanda worked as an
organizer on a diverse array of environmental campaigns. With MASSPIRG
(the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group), she recruited
students as campus activists. At the Northern Forest Alliance, Amanda
trained community volunteers to be effective advocates for land
preservation. She led a successful grassroots effort to support
establishment of a statewide program to combat sprawl with the Citizens
for New Hampshire Land and Community Heritage. Amanda lives in Portland
and directs the Portland office of Environmental Health Strategy
Center.
Steven Taylor
Steven Taylor
is a long-time organizer and advocate with more than 15 years experience in leadership development and campaign strategy within the environmental, social justice and labor movements. Most recently Steve coordinated national campaigns to hold the U.S. military accountable for the environmental and health damage caused by its activities, as the national organizer for the Military Toxics Project. Previously, Steve served as organizing director for the Maine People’s Alliance where he helped win reauthorization of Maine’s Toxics Use Reduction Act among other campaigns. Steve has also worked as an organizer for SOC’M (Save Our Cumberland Mountains) in Appalachia, for public employee unions in Georgia and Louisiana and as a boycott organizer for the United Farm Workers.
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