We can help you defend your community from dirty energy and waste facilities, especially proposed ones. Our experience, networks, databases, and materials are all made with the intention of supporting you. Feel free to call or email us any time.
Each staff member's email address consists of their first name followed by @energyjustice.net
Staff Coordinator, Managing Director, interim Executive Director: Josie Lopez Josie Lopez has been passionately working to prioritize equity diversity justice since 2016. While her experience is rooted in Democracy work, Josie understands the intersectionality between social, environmental, and democratic justice, and the need to build alliances between these movements. Her primary focus at Energy Justice Network is to create and sustain a thriving, equitable workplace for all employees, knowing that when the standard is raised for how employees are being appreciated and engaged at work, they are able to make a larger and sustainable impact on the ground.
Founder & Policy Director: Mike Ewall (215-436-9511) has been active since high school in 1990. His student and community work has helped many communities achieve victories against coal and gas power plants, landfills, incinerators, ethanol plants, medical waste facilities, and other noxious industries. His work includes research, writing, programming, organizing, networking, public speaking, legal work, policy analysis, advising and more. Find his full bio here.
Administrative Director: Traci Confer started out in 1997, assisting with a local fight against a wood waste incinerator in Morrisville, Pennsylvania. She's worked with Mike Ewall ever since, helping with research, database management and community organizing.
Baltimore Organizer: Stephanie Compton (443-253-2581) has been working on Environmental justice issues since 2012. A Texas native, first joined the movement with Texas Campaign for the Environment working on state EPR campaigns to improve recycling and on local ordinances to ban fracking. Moved to Baltimore, MD in 2014 to continue the work with Food & Water Watch working on the state campaigns to ban fracking and holding corporate polluters responsible for waste runoff in the Chesapeake Bay. Organized with United Workers to pass Earned Paid Sick Leave in Maryland. Currently working on all things pertaining to zero waste.
Grant Writer: Casey Cwalinski is a Communications Studies graduate deeply committed to issues of justice
broadly conceived. She has worked in various non-profit organizations over the past five years,
and strives to align her actions with her values by continuously being receptive to new
information and opportunities to live a zero waste lifestyle.
In her spare time, Casey loves to learn vocabulary in new languages and study linguistics. Her
favorite focus is in proto-indo-european etymology and diachronic linguistics.
