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Lexi Shultz
Deputy Director
Climate Campaign
As UCS’s Deputy Director for the Climate Program, Lexi provides direction for our federal climate policy work. This work is focused on advocating for practical, science-based solutions to climate change, while helping translate climate science information to coalition partners, decision makers and the general public. She has been actively engaged in helping to shape federal climate policy in Congress and works with an extensive coalition of organizations and grassroots activists. Lexi also helps provide management for the entire Climate Program, including our state-based work in California, the Midwest and the Northeast.
Lexi has been at UCS for four years. Previously, she served as the Washington Representative for Climate Policy and prior to that as Washington Representative for UCS’s Scientific Integrity Program, where she helped to develop policy solutions to reform the political abuse of science and built support for those reforms among the scientific community, policy makers, and the general public. She was involved in an effort to assess and document the impact the abuse of science is having on the morale of front-line workers, and ultimately on the ability of the federal government to craft public health and environmental policies based on the best science.
Before coming to UCS, from 2001 to 2004, Lexi was the director of legislative and regulatory affairs for the Mineral Policy Center, now Earthworks, in Washington, D.C., where she campaigned to reform mining laws and promote environmentally and fiscally responsible mining. She worked to educate decision-makers and the media, and assisted local communities engaged in mine fights.
Prior to that, from 1998 to 2001, Lexi ran a campaign against federal subsidies for environmentally harmful activities at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. She has testified before House and Senate Committees on a number of environmental issues and served on the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT) Superfund Subcommittee to advise the EPA on the future of the Superfund Program.
Lexi's environmental work began in 1989 as an Eaton Fellow at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies (IES) in Millbrook, New York, where she studied the effects of acidity on heavy metal concentrations in streams, and ultimately served as manager of the Environmental Monitoring Program at the IES from 1990 to 1992. She attended Pace University School of Law to study environmental law from 1993-1996, and held positions at the Pace Energy Project and the Environmental Defense Fund. Lexi also served as a legal research clerk for the Connecticut Superior Court from 1996 to 1997.
She has an A.B. in Chemistry from Vassar College, and J.D. Cum Laude and Environmental Law Certificate from Pace University School of Law. Lexi has been a member of the Connecticut bar since 1996. |
