Rebecca Rockefeller Lambert, Co-Chair
Former Planner and Regional Sustainability Coordinator at Greater Portland Council of Governments, Portland, Maine

Rebecca received her Masters in Environment and Natural Resources from the University of Vermont (M.S. 2008), where she focused on climate and energy policy, a continuation of previous work at Maine Energy Investment Corporation. She recently worked for the Greater Portland Council of Governments on climate and energy issues, specifically greenhouse gas inventories and sustainable transportation. Rebecca serves on the boards of the Rockefeller Family Fund and the Maine League of Conservation Voters and is active in the Maine environmental and civil rights community. She graduated with honors in anthropology from Brown University in 2003, where her studies focused on the cultural component of environmental problems and solutions. Rebecca joined ERI's board in October 2006.

Neil Popovic, Co-Chair
Partner, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP; Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

Neil A.F. Popovic is a partner at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, where he practices complex litigation, with an emphasis on international disputes. His practice also includes consumer class actions, white collar criminal defense and international environmental law. He teaches International Environmental Law and Resolution of Private International Disputes(co-taught with Prof. David D. Caron) at Berkeley Law, and has published numerous articles on international environmental law, including human rights and the environment. Mr. Popovic previously worked as an attorney in the International Program of the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (now Earthjustice), and continues to work with Earthjustice as a consultant. Mr. Popovic has served on the board of ERI since its inception in 2000. He also sits on the board of directors of the Center for Youth Development through Law, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment at Berkeley Law.

Dr. Charlie Clements
Executive Director, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Charlie Clements is a public health physician and human rights activist. He grew up in an Air Force family, was a Distinguished Graduate of the US Air Force Academy, and as a newly trained transport pilot volunteered to serve in SE Asia. Nine months into his tour of duty, coming to believe that what he was being asked to do was immoral, Charlie refused to fly further missions in support of the invasion of Cambodia. Later upon becoming a physician and believing another Vietnam was beginning in El Salvador, he volunteered again, but this time as an unarmed physician treating civilians in rural villages that would become ‘free fire zones.’ It was there Charlie first encountered the toll of landmines on civilians, which would subsequently motivate his involvement in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). As President of Physicians for Human Rights, he represented that organization both at the treaty signing and the Nobel prize ceremony of the ICBL. Witness to War, is the title of his book (Bantam, 1984) and an Academy Award winning documentary (1985), which describe his journey of conscience from Vietnam to El Salvador. Charlie has led a number of not-for-profit organizations and been widely recognized for his humanitarian efforts. He joined the ERI board of directors in 2005.

Jelson Garcia
Asia Program Manager, Bank Information Center

Dorcus Moo
Program Officer, American Jewish World Service

Dorcus Moo is a longtime activist and women’s rights advocate. Dorcus grew up in a Burmese refugee camp on the Thai-Burma border where she co-founded the Karen Student Network Group, a student organization serving refugee youth. Prior to coming to the United States, Dorcus worked with EarthRights International as the women’s rights project coordinator in Thailand and is an alumna of EarthRights School – Burma. Dorcus also worked with the International Rescue Committee in their refugee resettlement division in New York. Currently, Dorcus is a program officer with American Jewish World Service, responsible for the volunteer program in Southeast Asia. Dorcus holds a B.A. in political science from Hartwick College and is pursuing a graduate degree in international affairs at the New School University. Dorcus joined the ERI Board in June 2011.

Laura Levine
Attorney

Laura Levine practiced litigation at Dickstein Shapiro LLP in Washington DC from 1989 to 2002. She had a diverse practice in both federal and state courts involving a wide range of issues, including environmental law, white collar criminal defense and commercial transactions. She has a long-standing interest in public service, and has performed pro bono work for a number of public interest organizations, including the Legal Aid Society and the Legal Counsel for the Elderly.  Before joining Dickstein Shapiro, Ms. Levine was a law clerk to the Honorable John M. Steadman of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. She is admitted to practice in New York and Washington DC. Ms. Levine has also been an Adjunct Professor of English at Montgomery College in Rockville, MD. Ms. Levine graduated from Stanford Law School, where she was a note editor of the Stanford Law Review, in 1987. She received an M.A. in English Literature from Columbia University in 1984, and a B.A. from Brown University in 1981. Ms. Levine is an enthusiastic supporter of ERI’s mission, and joined the Board in November 2009.

Abby Reyes
Attorney; Sustainability Researcher, Environment Institute, University of California, Irvine

As a program director at the Environmental Legal Assistance Center in Palawan, Philippines, Abby provided paralegal education and training to rural fishing and farming communities working to defend their environmental and human rights. As the director of the U'wa Defense Project, she coordinated international solidarity support to the Colombian indigenous U'wa community in their resistance to oil exploitation. Abby completed her bachelor's degree in human biology at Stanford in 1995 and her JD at UC Berkeley Law in 2004. After clerking for the Honorable Richard A. Paez on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Abby served as a staff attorney at the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. In October, 2011, she joined the Environment Institute at the University of California at Irvine as a Sustainability Researcher. She directs the Heart Politics Project, a small non-profit initiative promoting social transformation in the sustainable living movement, and volunteers on the Swatcha Ganga campaign to clean the Ganga River at Varanasi, India.

Sarah Singh
Attorney, Accountability Counsel

Sarah Singh is an attorney at Accountability Counsel where she represents communities around the world demanding accountability for human rights and environmental violations caused by internationally financed projects. Sarah assists her clients with use of accountability mechanisms tied to international finance and conducts policy advocacy to ensure that those mechanisms are robust and effective. Before joining Accountability Counsel, Sarah clerked for the Honorable Marsha S. Berzon on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Sarah is a 2010 graduate of UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where she was an active member in the human rights community, and holds an undergraduate degree in International Relations from Brown University. Sarah is a long-time supporter of ERI's work and rejoined the Board in 2011.

Jasper Teulings
Head of the Legal Unit of Greenpeace International, Amsterdam

Jasper Teulings is General Counsel and Advocaat in the Legal Unit of Greenpeace International in Amsterdam. He has served on the Board of the INGO Accountability Charter and helped develop the Global Reporting Initiative’s NGO Sector Supplement. He also was a Board Member of NJCM, the Dutch section of the International Commission of Jurists, and acted as an independent advisor to the international commission investigating the ‘Probo Koala’ case, the dumping of toxic waste in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on 18 August 2006. He regularly speaks and publishes on a wide range of topics, such as climate change litigation, free speech & peaceful protest and Greenpeace’s corporate campaigns. Before joining Greenpeace in 2004 he practiced as a media lawyer and civil litigator in Amsterdam for 10 years. Jasper joined the ERI Board in June 2011.

James (Jim) Thompson
Attorney

Jim Thompson is a full-time student and part time attorney in his own firm of Thompson and Associates, having resumed his education in the summer of 2010 to pursue a Masters of Law in Estate Planning and Elder Law. He is on the Boards of the Crossville Hospice and the Cumberland County Playhouse, and was a past Board member of Friends of the Earth, and Big Brother of the Year in Northern Virginia in 2005. Jim is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, and served as an Air Force pilot. After graduating from the University of Florida College of Law, Jim clerked for the Honorable Paul Hitch Roney (U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals) and was a partner in the law firms of Kutak, Rock LLP, and Saunders, Snyder Ross and Dickerson. Before being requested to re-enter active duty, Jim was an Associate Professor of Law at the University Of Tennessee College Of Law, where he was part of the Harvard Study Team that traveled to Iraq in 1990, and published the report: The Effect of The Gulf Crisis On the Children of Iraq. Jim has practiced water, and environmental, law since law school and is an ardent advocate of the concept the survival of “space ship earth”. Jim joined the ERI Board in June 2011.

Kate Tillery
Attorney

Katherine (Kate) Tillery is a lawyer with the law firm of Korein Tillery LLC, with offices in St. Louis, MO and Chicago, IL. She has served on a variety of non-profit boards, including the Illinois Bar Foundation, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Southwestern Illinois and Trailnet, Inc. In addition to the ERI Board, she currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Illinois College and the Center for the Arts in Crested Butte, Colorado. Pursuing her life-long interest in human rights and environmental issues, Ms. Tillery resumed her formal education in 2000, when she entered the International Affairs Program at Washington University, from which she earned a master’s degree in 2003. She has served as a pro-bono lawyer for Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation and has written and lectured on the subject of the Alien Torts Claims Act and Sustainable Globalization. She is particularly interested in ERI’s schools in Thailand, where she has taught International Human Rights Law for several years. Kate joined the ERI Board in June 2007.