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Conservation Coordinators Sierra
Club Angeles Chapter
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Jennifer Robinson Jennifer works with Angeles Chapter conservation activists to promote local Sierra Club grassroots environmental campaigns. She provides support for strategic planning, coalition building, public relations and media outreach. Jennifer previously worked as the first wildlife specialist for the Pasadena Humane Society and SPCA. There she developed the organization's wildlife program, which actively rescued and rehabilitated wild animals and provided public education about coexisting with native wildlife. She began her work in the environmental field at Middlebury College in Vermont, where she graduated with a biology degree and became the campus environmental coordinator. Jennifer lives in Hollywood with her husband David and their hairless cat, Ripley. |
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Maddalena Serra
213-287-4287 x210 Maddalena Serra joined the Chapter staff April 29, 2008. She.spent the previoust two years at the Amigos De los Rios, where she focused on campaigns promoting open space, clean air, and environmental education for young people. She hopes to continue these pursuits at the Angeles Chapter. Prior to Amigos De los Rios, Serra worked for Sonoma State in conjunction with the Forest Service as a recreational monitor in the Angeles Forest while she studied to obtain a Master of Science in Regenerative Studies. As a monitor, she spent a summer interviewing forest visitors for the reasons they came to the forest, where they came from and what activities they would engage in. Serra also worked with Corazón, a non-profit organization based in Laguna Beach that builds homes for impoverished families in Latin America. That work took her to Tijuana to work on sustainable living issues, centering around basic housing and city services, such as sewage. Her work on homes included structures that could be quickly built from near-by materials and still be cool in the summer and warm in the winter. She has worked on establishing sustainable housing, community gardens, and community bulletin boards where residents could post information and sustainable agriculture. Serra also travelled extensively in Latin Amerca. She worked on her thesis in Panama, studying tourist-generated trash and how waste is disposed of. “Waste is often burned by the rivers,” Serra says, “releasing dioxins which flow in the water, harm health and damage coral.” A deep interest in environmental justice issues runs through Serra’s experience. At a past Latino Congress, Serra attended a presentation made on pollution in goods movement corridors given by Chapter member Jesse Marquez. Afterwards, Serra struck up a conversation with Marquez about his presentation. While Serra has always had personal passion for conservation,
saying, “I like the outdoors and nature and I love the sea,”
she has not always worked for environmental organizations. Before
undertaking work on her Master of Science, in fact, Serra was
a culinary star in the San Francisco restaurant scene, where she
variously worked as a pastry chef, a head chef, a restaurateur
herself, and as Executive Chef at Niebaum-Coppola, owned by the
renowned filmmaker. Senior Chapter Director Ron Silverman noted that Serra’s resume was a standout among the many candidates for the open Conservation Coordinator post. “We are very lucky to have someone as accomplished as Maddalena join us at Chapter Headquarters. In addition to impressive credentials, she brings a wonderful attitude that will energize and inspire our campaigns.” Serra is fluent in her native Italian, English and Spanish. |
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