About the EWG Board

Note: Affiliations listed for identification purposes only

David Baker is the founder and executive director of Community Against Pollution, which works with local, state and federal agency officials to address environmental and health issues, particularly the toxic industrial chemicals that originate in West Anniston. Baker is a member of the NAACP and the Coalition for Black Trade Unionists. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Alabama State Legislative in November 2003, and received EPA awards for best community organization and outstanding leadership and contribution for meeting the goals of environmental justice. He is featured in a book, entitled My City Was Gone, by Dennis Love. Baker has a degree in labor management from Cornell University. He is married to Lisa Cooley-Baker and lives in Anniston, Alabama with their four children.

Rev. Sally Bingham a native of California, 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. In 2001 the Rev. Bingham received the Green Power Leadership Pilot Award from the Center for Resource Solutions, the U.S. EPA and the U.S. Department of Energy. In 2002, the Regeneration Project received the international Global Energy Award, the “Energy Oscar.” The Rev Bingham lives in California with her three children, Sarah, Stephen, and Lock.

Jennifer Caldwell, former head of marketing for The Nature Conservancy’s California program, founded and led Hope to Action, a non-profit focused on promoting sustainability practices among women. Last year, Hope to Action merged with Environmental Working Group.

Jennifer recently joined the board of Exploratorium, and has served for the past nine years as a trustee at San Francisco Ballet, where she chairs marketing. In addition, she’s an active board and Executive Committee member at Katherine Delmar Burke School, where she founded and chairs environmental sustainability, as well as development. She also serves on the current Head Search Committee.

Last year, Jennifer initiated the Bay Area Green Schools Alliance, creating the first forum for green school leaders to share sustainability best practices. Jennifer also serves on the Marketing Advisory Board for Sarah Lawrence College, her alma mater.

Prior to her work in the non-profit sector, her career spanned publishing, media communications and broadcasting in New York and Silicon Valley; including positions as executive producer at Paramount Pictures Interactive and senior producer at Hewlett Packard’s Media Technology Group.

Jennifer lives in San Francisco with her husband, John H.N. Fisher, and their two daughters.

Ken Cook is the co-founder and president of the Environmental Working Group. He is widely recognized as one of the environmental community’s most prominent and effective critics of establishment agriculture and U.S. farm policy. Under Cook, EWG’s break-through innovation has been the creation of easy-to-use, online consumer databases to analyze toxic pollution in people, government farm subsidies, nuclear waste transportation routes to Yucca Mountain, mining claims near the Grand Canyon, tap water quality nationwide and provide consumers with cosmetics ingredient safety information.

Cook earned a B.A. in history, B.S. in agriculture and M.S. in soil science from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He and his wife Deb Callahan live in Marin, California with their son, Callahan Cook.

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. Steven is the co-owner of Restaurant Nora, the first certified organic restaurant in the nation.

Dr. Harvey Karp is a nationally renowned pediatrician and child developmentalist, and a leading advocate in the field of children's and environmental health. He is on the faculty of USC School of Medicine and a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Karp's books and DVDs, The Happiest Baby on the Block and The Happiest Toddler on the Block, teach parents simple techniques to reduce infant crying, boost sleep, build patience and eliminate tantrums and are translated into over 20 languages. The popularity of his work has made him America's most read pediatrician.

Over the past 20 years, Dr. Karp has been a spokesman on environmental issues for NRDC, the American Academy of Pediatrics, Environmental Media Services, California Department of Health, and Healthy Child Healthy World.

Dr. Karp is an advisor to Parents, Ser Padres and American Baby magazines and a parenting advisor for Barnes and Noble and AOL. He has appeared numerous times on Good Morning America, The View, Larry King Live, Dr. Phil and his work has been featured by the Associated Press, New York Times, Time, Newsweek, People Magazine, etc. Reporting on his innovative ideas, the New York Times proclaimed, "Roll over Dr. Spock!" Dr. Karp lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Nina and their daughter.

Carol McDonnell is a dedicated environmentalist and parent activist who has worked in numerous capacities to educate consumers and organizations about the impact of their daily choices on individual and planetary well-being. For more than a decade, she has committed her considerable energy, personally and professionally, to the advancement of causes that foster environmental sustainability and personal health, particularly in the areas of toxin exposure, nutrition and children’s health.

Carol was a founding consultant at Chartreuse Products, which makes organic cosmetics, home cleaning products, and innovative reusable items. In her early career, she served on the Board of Trustees of Woodley House, a residential facility in Washington, D.C. for people living with mental illness. She also spent eight years providing marketing, communications, technology, and M&A consulting services to Fortune 500 companies.

Carol divides her time between Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay and Mill Valley, California, where she lives with her husband John and four children.

Nina Montée Karp is a producer, director and an environmental activist. In collaboration with Dr. Harvey Karp, she created the award-winning educational DVDs, The Happiest Baby and The Happiest Toddler on the Block. These best-selling films are used across the nation to reduce parental struggles and promote healthy family relations. She also helped create one of the first environmental documentaries, Not Under My Roof, with Olivia Newton John and Kelly Preston. Nina is a founding Board Member of Healthy Child Healthy World.

Nina wrote, produced and directed Breast Cancer: The Path of Wellness and Healing. Hailed as a landmark educational guide, this DVD features the nation's most celebrated breast cancer doctors and wellness experts (including Dr. Susan Love, Dr. Marisa Weiss, Dr. Dennis Slamon, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. Dean Ornish) and celebrity breast cancer survivors (including, Sheryl Crow, Christina Applegate, Melissa Etheridge, Olivia Newton-John). All the profits from DVD sales are donated to breast cancer related charities.

Nina resides in Los Angeles with her husband, Dr. Harvey Karp, and she is the proud mother of their daughter, Lexi.

Drummond Pike (Chair) is a Principal with Equilibrium Capital, an impact investments firm concentrating on sustainability investments in water, land, and energy. Pike founded and served until 2010 as chief executive officer of Tides Network, a collaborative group of social justice organizations, including Tides Foundation, Tides Center, Tides Shared Spaces, and Thoreau Center for Sustainability. He pioneered a national structure of fully-staffed donor-advised funds in philanthropy, and has supported grassroots and public interest organizations through environmental and social change philanthropy since 1970. Prior to founding Tides in 1976, Drummond served as executive director of the Shalan Foundation, an organization dedicated to economic change and environmental sustainability. He co-founded and served as associate director for the Youth Project in Washington, D.C. He also co-founded Working Assets/Credo Mobile, a telecommunications company dedicated to progressive philanthropy and political activism. Pike serves on the boards of Tides Canada Foundation, Island Press, and the Democracy Alliance. He graduated with honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and earned a Masters of Political Science from the Eagleton Institute at Rutgers University.

Laura Turner Seydel is a national environmental activist and eco-living expert dedicated to the ongoing education, community initiatives, and collective effort necessary to create a cleaner, greener, and healthier environment and sustainable future for our children and our planet. With an unrelenting passion, Laura plays an integral role in the environmental movement by serving on her family’s foundation boards including The Turner Foundation, Jane Smith Turner Foundation, the Turner Endangered Species Fund, and Ted’s Montana Grill. She serves on national boards including League of Conservation Voters, Defenders of Wildlife, and Waterkeeper Alliance. She also serves as Chair of Captain Planet Foundation and Zero Waste Zone-Downtown Atlanta. Laura has co-founded such influential organizations as Mothers and Others for Clean Air and the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. She lives with her husband, Rutherford, and her three children in their home EcoManor, the first Gold LEED certified residence in the Southeast.

Francesca Vietor president and executive director of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and principal consultant to Ecoworks, an environmental consulting firm, has more than 20 years of experience working for environmental and social change. She has served as president of the Urban Forest Council (2003-2005), chair of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Environmental Transition Team (2003), president of the San Francisco Commission on the Environment (1997-1999) and director of the San Francisco Department of the Environment (1999-2001). Vietor has worked as executive director of the Chez Panisse Foundation, on the staff and board of the Rainforest Action Network, for Greenpeace, Island Press, Commonweal and CARE Madagascar. She is the co-founder and co-director of 1000 Flowers, which has helped more than 20,000 women in 47 states register to vote. She lives in San Francisco with her daughter, Chiara.

Meredith Wingate is a Program Officer in the Power Utilities Program at the Energy Foundation since 2008. She co-manages the Foundation's grants portfolio in the areas of utility energy efficiency and opposition to new unabated coal fired power plants. Prior to this, Wingate was a Program Director at the Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) and led CRS’ Clean Energy Policy Design and Implementation business line, which is focused on providing expert assistance to state regulators on renewable policy design, certificate tracking, and voluntary renewable markets. Wingate 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.

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 Ithaca, NY, with her husband and their daughter.