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Our People

Staff

Environment & Health
Education Director
Linnea Bond

Linnea@psrpa.org

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Youth Leadership Mentor
Corey Davis

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Medical and
Environmental Health Writer
Laura Dagley

Laura@psrpa.org

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Environmental Chemist
Certified Optical Gas Imaging Thermographer
Christina DiGiulio
Chris@psrpa.org

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Climate Action
Campaign Coordinator
Daniel Farmer

Daniel@psrpa.org

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Policy & Program Coordinator
Matthew Shorraw

Matthew@psrpa.org

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Bookkeeper
Briana Nicholas

Briana@psrpa.org

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 Grants Project Manager
Amanda Troell
Amanda@psrpa.org

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Executive Director
Tonyehn Verkitus

Tonyehn@psrpa.org

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Board of Directors

President
Edward Ketyer, MD, FAAP
Ned@psrpa.org
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Treasurer
Alana Dann
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James Baier, MD MPH

Staff Psychiatrist

 Department of Veterans Affairs

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Julie Becker, MA, Ph.D., MPH
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Katherine Crowe, Ph.D.

Licensed Clinical Psychologist/Co-Owner

Home for Anxiety, Repetitive Behaviors, OCD, and Related Disorders (HARBOR)

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Francine Frezghi, MSN, RN

Post-Anesthesia Care Nurse

Temple University Hospital

 

Robert Little, MD

Family Physician (Retired)

UPMC Pinnacle, Harrisburg

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David Masur

Executive Director

Penn Environment

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Stephanie I. Maximous, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Medicine,

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

 

Susan Robbins, MD, MPH, FAAP

Pediatrician, Child Care Health Consultant;

Co-chair, Gun Violence Prevention Workgroup

American Public Health Association/MCH

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Pouné Saberi, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

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 Isha Thapar

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

 

Walter Tsou, MD, MPH

CPHI Adjunct Fellow;

Adjunct Professor

Department of Family Medicine & Community Health

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Advisory Council

Tyra C. Bryant-Stephens, MD

 

Joel Chinitz, MD, MPH

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Claudia Crane, RN

 

Peter DeCarlo, PhD

 

Robert Garfield, MD

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Kenneth Lande, PhD

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Richard Lippin, MD

 

Ruth McDermott-Levy, PhD, MPH, RN

 

David Moscatello, PhD

 

Kathleen Reeves, MD

 

George Spaeth, MD

 

Andrew Stone, MD

 

Daniel Taylor, DO

 

David Trevaskis, Esq.

 

Daniel Wolk, MD  

 

Richard Tolin, MD

 

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“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

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— Howard Zinn, Historian, Author, Playwright, Professor, & Activist

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