About the EWG Board

Note: Affiliations listed for identification purposes only

David Baker is the founder and executive director of Community Against Pollution (CAP). David is also a member of the NAACP and the Coalition for Black Trade Unionists. David has a degree in Labor Management from Cornell University. He is married to Lisa Cooley-Baker and has four children.

Rev. Sally Bingham is the Environmental Minister at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. She is the founder and executive director of The Regeneration Project, a nonprofit ministry deepening the connection between faith and the environment. Sally currently lives in California with her three children, Sarah, Stephen, and Lock.

Charlotte Brody is the executive director of Commonweal, a health and environmental research institute in Bolinas, California. She previously worked as a co-executive director of Health Care Without Harm and as an organizing director for the Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ). Charlotte is married and has two sons.

Sandy Buchanan is the executive director of Ohio Citizen Action—the state’s largest environmental organization—where she has worked with community organizations across Ohio to win pollution prevention campaigns. She is a graduate of Cornell University. Sandy currently lives in Cleveland with her husband, Bill Whitney, and their two sons.

Ken Cook is the co-founder and president of the Environmental Working Group. Both Ken and EWG have been the subject of profiles in the New York Times, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the Chicago Tribune, and many other publications. Ken earned degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Deb Callahan.

Steven Damato has been involved in the organic agriculture and food industry for the past thirty years. He is an active partner in Changing Seas, LLC, a seafood company dedicated to sustainable and organic seafood. Stephen is the co-owner of Restaurant Nora, the first certified organic restaurant in the nation.

Drummond Pike (Chair) is the founder and chief executive officer of Tides Network, a collaborative group of social justice organizations. Prior to founding Tides in 1976, Drummond received a Masters of Political Science from the Eagleton Institute at Rutgers University after graduating with Honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Cari Rudd is a strategic communications consultant. Cari works with progressive candidates, organizations and elected officials across the country. Formerly an aide to Senate Minority Leader Thomas A. Daschle, Cari also served as a Direct Marketing advisor to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Originally from Iowa, Cari, and husband David, live in Washington D.C. with their son, Lucas.

Arlie Schardt is the founder and president of Environmental Media Services, a nonprofit educational organization fostering public discussion among environmental health scientists and medical practitioners. Arlie served as an associate Washington legislative director for the ACLU, executive director for the Environmental Defense Fund, and national press secretary for Al Gore’s presidential campaign.

Perry Wallace is a tenured Professor of Law at the Washington College of Law of the American University, where he teaches corporate, environmental and international law. Perry holds undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering and engineering mathematics from the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, and a law degree from Columbia University.

Pete Myers is CEO and Chief Scientist of Environmental Health Sciences, a science communication and research organization. For a dozen years he was director of the W. Alton Jones Foundation. While there he co-authored Our Stolen Future, a book exploring the impacts of low-level contamination on development and reproduction. Pete has a BA from Reed College and a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley.

Meredith Wingate is a Director at the Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) and leads CRS’ Clean Energy Policy Design and Implementation business line, which is focused on providing expert assistance to state regulators and regional groups on renewable policy design, certificate tracking, voluntary renewable markets, and carbon regulatory design for the electricity sector. Meredith has a Masters of Environmental Management in Resource Economics and Policy from Duke University and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Kelsey Wirth is co-founder and former director of Align Technology, an orthodontic technology company. Kelsey previously worked for the Environmental Working Group, the World Resources Institute, and the Lamm Campaign for U.S. Senate. Kelsey received her BA from Harvard College and her MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

Alicia Wittink is a trustee with the Park Foundation based in Ithaca, NY. She currently serves on the boards of Center for a New American Dream and Mother Jones magazine. She is a co-founder of DC EcoWomen’s Hour. Alicia graduated from Cornell University and lives in Washington, DC with her husband, their daughter, and their dog.